In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Autumn Proudlove, Associate Director for Policy and Markets with the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University kicked off a new USEA series on performance-based regulation, or PBR, by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emerging national momentum toward PBR, which can change the fundamental business model of investor-owned utilities by moving their rewards for capital investments to rewards for their performance on achieving goals set by policymakers.