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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!

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Justin Segall

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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.
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Brien Sheahan and Philip Mezey

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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?
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Robert L. Borlick

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Future of FERC Reporting, Through the XBRL Looking Glass

State Response Matters

As FERC begins its process of adopting the new digital reporting standard, eXtensible Business Reporting Language or XBRL, it opened the opportunity for the states to become active in the process. The data structure design has the potential to dramatically change how state public utility commissions are able to oversee the utilities they regulate.
Byline: 

Danny Kermode

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EV Managed Charging

Time to Act is Now

At a minimum, to fully leverage managed charging benefits, all chargers financed via the rate base should be managed charging capable.
Byline: 

Erika Myers

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AEP-EPRI's Power-in-Pollinators Initiative

Run-Up to Fortnightly Top Innovators 2019

The power industry maintains millions of acres of land. This initiative supports pollinators and encourages plants that aren't going to grow into power lines.
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Sandy Nessing, Tim Lohner and Jessica Fox

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Delaware PSC Celebrates 70th Anniversary!

A Day at the Delaware PSC

The PUF team traveled to Dover, Delaware to visit the Public Service Commission, and the timing was perfect. For the PSC turned 70! Having formed in 1949, the PSC held a reception on September 12, attended by former Commissioners, retirees, elected officials, company executives, and dignitaries to celebrate its platinum anniversary. And there is much to celebrate in this small but mighty state.

See the Facebook Album here.

 

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