Read our April issue
Our April issue is now available to read online. See the table of contents here.
Selective Undergrounding Strategically
A primer on new undergrounding strategies for greater resilience.
Indiana Senate's Lessons on Texas
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”
Alliance to Save Energy at Congressional Hearing
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“Energy efficiency should be the starting point in the conversation about an equitable clean energy transition.”
CERAWeek by IHS Markit
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“If you’re going to operate within a single market like Texas, with very limited access to the Eastern Interconnect, then you really have to think about what those reserve margins should be.”
Up the Capacity of an HVAC Line
Consider Converting to HVDC, Part 3
“We describe several ways the capacity of an existing high voltage AC transmission line can be increased and show that sometimes the most cost-effective strategy is to convert the line to high voltage DC.”
The Art of New Rate Introduction
Changing Customer Attitudes
“Any pricing change will disbenefit some customers. You can manage that issue with proper customer education and customer engagement.”
California Leverages Customer Solar and Storage
Partnership Pilot
“A new pilot tariff incentivizes aggregation of customer-owned DERs in targeted locations to avoid upgrading power lines and replacing expensive equipment like transformers.”
U.S. and EEI Re-engage International Community
Edison Electric Institute
“Addressing global climate change and other vexing problems facing the world requires long-term thinking and a stable and consistent public policy to attract investments needed to finance actions to meet net-zero targets.”
Revenue Decoupling at 40
Venerable PBR Tool Goes National
In the electric utility industry, decoupling is currently used in 19 jurisdictions. This count includes decoupling approvals by regulators in two jurisdictions that take effect in July.