by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 26, 2022 | Affordability, Asset Management, Financial Management, Fiscal Planning & Rate Setting, Funding Coordination
How can a utility’s rate design and policies around collections promote affordability? In this 1-hour webinar recording, EFCN experts discuss how different rate structures impact customers, how to set rate structures equitable, and how utility policies can help...
by Jerry Gunasegaram | Jul 26, 2022 | Affordability, Financial Management, Rates
Many small water systems – particularly in rural areas – are operating in communities with decreasing average customer water use, declining service populations, or have lost or are at risk of losing large commercial/industrial customers that generate much-needed...
by Shannon Pepper | Apr 5, 2022 | Affordability, Communications and Outreach
The impact of utility rates on community members is a challenge that water and wastewater utilities across the nation face. It is especially challenging for small systems. Join the Environmental Finance Centers from Wichita State University, University of New...
by UNCEFC | May 20, 2020 | Affordability, Financial Management
Right now, water utilities are facing great uncertainty about the coming months and years. When will moratoria on water shut-offs end? When will water consumption be back to “normal”? Will utility staff get COVID-19? And the “Big One” — What will revenue loss be...
by Claudia Flores | Aug 1, 2019 | Affordability, Financial Management
In 2018, the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) published findings from a study that assessed the metrics and criteria used to determine principal forgiveness eligibility in the state revolving funds (SRFs) in EPA Region 4. To complete a more comprehensive analysis,...
by Annalee Harkins | May 28, 2019 | Affordability, Rates
Recently, the North Carolina Water and Wastewater Rates Dashboard was updated with 2019 data and the North Carolina Water and Wastewater Rates Report 2019 was published. Are you getting all you can out of these useful resources? As the start of the new fiscal year...
