Making the Grid Great Again (For the First Time)
New FERC's Unfinished Grid Agenda
FERC added four commissioners in '93, presaging a decade of sweeping changes in federal policy.
Smart Grid
Open, Standard, Direct-Access Communications Interfaces
Why They Matter
There is impressive growth in the types of devices that could play a part in utility and aggregator programs to provide grid support. But there are stranded investment risks if utilities, manufacturers, and consumers make communications interface choices that are not open, standard, and supportive of direct access.
What Keeps You Awake at Night?
Energy and Telecom Oases and Deserts
I want to encourage the research and deployment of technologies that enhance human capabilities and quality of life. But our primary concern is to protect the most vulnerable customers from being excluded.
Change Underway in Electric Power Industry
Key Trends Volume Released
In 2016, the Institute for Electric Innovation released Volumes I, II, and III of Key Trends Driving Change in The Electric Power Industry. The final volume examines rate and regulatory reform, data analytics, and grid modernization.
AMI to IoT
Lesson in Change
In today’s Internet of Things, businesses face a strikingly similar picture to what utilities saw in the early days of the smart grid. Consider what those lessons have in store for us today.
Future Service-Oriented Utility
What is value of going digital?
We see the potential for a large pot of value for utilities, sitting in clouds of smart meter data.
Active Grid
Where Smart Energy Meets Internet of Things
Imagine what could be achieved if the current modernized grid evolved to be even more dynamic, a complete solution encompassing electricity, gas and water.
Energy Cloud Playbook
Building Competitive Advantage for Grid of the Future
The pace and impact of change in the energy industry are unrelenting. Utilities must rethink many of the assumptions that have anchored strategic planning to date. This requires that utilities play both defense as well as offense to remain competitive.
A Five-Point Plan For The Next Wave Of Electricity Restructuring
The monopoly utility model was once expansive and revolutionary. Now, it is contracting and preservationist.
A plan for restructuring: Delivery service pricing reform; devolution of generation and re-allocating risk; stranded cost recovery; distributed resources neutrality; optimization of service offerings.
Microgrids and Battery Storage
In search of enlightened policy to build a solid business case.
A smart grid expert searches for a solid business case – and tells how to create enlightened policy to make it happen.