If you get paid by a rate of return on your capital investment, that is--and I am not, this is not a criticism, it is just an economic fact of life--doesn't that encourage building rather than, for example, conserving?
On the recordFebruary 7, 2018
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Senator King discusses the economic incentives in the rate structure.
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