Where Electrifying Isn't
Look at the numbers to appreciate that we’re a long way from electrifying home heating.
Gas Versus Electric Heat
41.0% of American households heated with electricity in 2021, while 46.5% used natural gas.
Undergrounding in Resilience
Innovation has decreased its costs. Increased its reliability. Extended service life. Principal Investigators Paul Kjellander and Steve Mitnick interviewed leaders and experts at Alliant Energy, Avista, Black Hills Energy, Dominion Energy, Eversource Energy, Florida Power & Light, Georgia Power, Idaho Power, NorthWestern Energy, PacifiCorp, Pacific Gas & Electric, WEC Energy Group. And at Electric Power Research Institute, Burns & McDonnell.
Undergrounding in Resilience
Read our Special Report: "The Role of Undergrounding in Electricity System Resilience."
AEIC's Vision Remains Clear and Constant
138th Annual Meeting
“Staying true to its vision, the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies will continue to be the glue that binds the industry together and provides an encouraging bang on the table in support of new ideas and innovations that move our industry forward for the benefit of all.”
Consistent Methods to Evaluate DERs
Opposite of Arbitrary and Capricious
The National Standard Practice Manual for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources offers regulators and others a set of fundamental principles that can guide decisions about how to conduct BCAs and which cost tests to use in their jurisdiction.
Unintended Consequences of FERC Order 1000
ITC
“Pre-Order 1000, there was a fair amount of regional transmission development, and the most prominent examples are MISO MVPs, CapX2020, Balanced Portfolio in SPP. Those continue to provide massive benefits to customers. It makes a strong case for policymakers to say, ‘it’s time to go back to the federal right of first refusal.’”
How Much Hydrogen Helps
Southern Co., GTI Energy
“Green hydrogen is exciting because it gets to that storage issue in terms of potentially having ability to store excess renewable energy from sources like solar and wind for electricity.”
National Lab on Critical Minerals
DOE
Conversations with DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Director, Brian Anderson, NETL’s Jessica Mullen, and Kansas Geological Survey’s Franek Hasiuk.
New Nuclear's Role in Decarbonization
NEI, Breakthrough Inst.
“As difficult as it might seem to build a nuclear power plant, building multi-state transmission has proven more difficult. The Princeton study shows need for 3 or 4 times as much new transmission capacity added if you do the whole job with just renewables versus firm clean generation from things like nuclear.”