George Westinghouse, and Greats of England, Italy
Birthdays
Westinghouse became rich and famous for his invention of air brakes for railroads. Shaping the energy industries came next.
History Repeats: Retail Wholesale
Unchosen Surprises in Choice
It was increasingly recognized that rather than deregulation – which implies transformation to no or little regulation – we were implementing but a different form of regulation.
Enhancing Regulatory Commissions' Ability to Fight Climate Change
Potential Legislative Enablements
Some states have explored the concept of value-stacked rate designs, such as New York, but much more needs to be done – often requiring enabling legislation.
Innovation at Scale
Lessons from Europe
The approaches taken by European utilities are portable to other regions and can be instructive to North American utilities considering alternative paths for advancing their innovation models.
To Get There from Here – On Decarbonization
Getting the Details Right
The complex interaction of all our energy supply options and how they interact in the end will affect jobs, lives, public health, and bottom lines. Bayless uncovers some cold, hard facts.
Offshore Wind – Export Cables or Backbone Transmission?
Marine Transmission Options
Both Maryland and New Jersey insulated offshore wind developers from upgrade cost uncertainty through a two-part bid with one part indexed to the actual upgrade cost, determined after project selection.
No Longer Simple Energy
Uplight Merges Six Companies
What did you do this summer? While most of us enjoyed a vacation, Justin Segall spent his summer seemingly like a superhero, accomplishing with his team an amazing blitz of mergers aimed at changing the utility customer experience.
Uplight is new. And bright. Announced in July from the merger of Simple Energy and Tendril, it builds upon combining the recent acquisitions of EEme, EnergySavvy, and FirstFuel. In other words, Justin Segall has been busy!
Let's Not Forget Balancing Act of Regulation
Commissions Confront Challenges
Changed economic, market, operating, and policy conditions justify commissions revisiting the public interest effects of existing ratemaking and other practices.
Smart Communities Share Infrastructure
Synergy Smarter
One new variation on the traditional utilities business model involves leveraging public-private partnerships to overcome the funding and jurisdictional challenges of smart communities.
Buying Solar Energy by The Minute
Aligning Benefits with Costs
There is a better way to implement the Buy All-Sell All model. Instead of setting VoS rates based on speculative forecasts, why not just pay prices that reflect the actual, contemporaneous value of the solar energy? Why not, effectively, buy the solar energy by the minute?