Car Manufacturers Are Moving Fast
We’re Electrifying the Road
Utilities can use this direct relationship with every consumer and every corporation to deliver very compelling and credible messages about electric vehicles.
EVs & Storage
Environmental Community Looks Forward
We’re Electrifying the Road
To meet 2050 carbon reduction goals, we need to electrify almost all light-duty and many heavy-duty vehicles.
Electrifying America's Buses
We’re Electrifying the Road
It’s quite a daunting technical challenge to build an electric vehicle that can serve as a U.S. mass transit bus.
Will Demand Charges Accelerate Adoption of Behind-the-Meter Storage?
Part One of Two
Innovation in rate design may suggest additional paths and revenue structures beyond demand charges.
Where Energy Storage is Headed
Economics are increasingly competitive
PUF’s Steve Mitnick: What are your top goals for 2018 as the CEO of the Energy Storage Association?
Kelly Speakes-Backman: The energy storage industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, and with it, ESA will expand its support of the market. 2018 will be a year of continued growth for ESA and the storage industry, but also one of reflection on what the future will hold and how ESA can be a catalyst for this growth.
Revisiting the Regulatory Paradigm
Where Do DERs Fit In?
Too often discussions on complex topics like valuing and rewarding DER resources occur in silos. Here are some questions to form the basis for conversations between stakeholders. To stimulate policy-making, the answers must be shared with the other sector representatives.
Investing in Innovation
Identify incoming changes, partner with start-ups
Imagine a world where you spend exponentially less to provide better service to your customers.
Storage and Distributed Resources in Wholesale Markets
Preserve Local Authority
Many public power utilities are taking a closer look at how DER, including electric storage facilities, might benefit their communities. The American Public Power Association has asked that new FERC wholesale market rules not frustrate local use of these evolving resources.
The Power of Innovation, Part II
Utility Execs' Roundtable: We sat down with five utility execs who lead their companies on innovation
Migrating to a model that focuses on product and service volume to produce margins is a fundamental shift. But the challenge these executives acknowledge is learning how to blend several unique business models as the scope of their business expands.
EPRI Podcast: Open Road for Electric Vehicles
Creating Key Infrastructure
How will utilities approach a charging infrastructure with 46 electric vehicle models on the market by 2020? This is of particular interest in California, which has a mandate of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2025.