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Ti: The Transmission Line Inspection Robot

Managing Overhead Transmission Lines

EPRI developed Ti, a robot capable of crawling over conductor shield wires and harvesting power from ambient energy sources to support autonomous, high-fidelity condition assessment.

Byline:

Andrew Phillips

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Electricity, Economic Efficiency and Growth

Building a fully integrated grid is the next great opportunity to realize higher levels of economic efficiency and prosperity.

A cost benefit analysis in electricity typically achieves assessment of future costs but usually considers only a single type of benefit: operational cost savings.

Byline:

Silvio Flaim and Loren Toole

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An Industry Transformed

Looking back on my 45 years in the energy sector.

By diving into today’s more diverse energy sector and embracing change, utilities stand to benefit over the long term. This is precisely why I am so excited about the future, even if I do occasionally look back wistfully on the past.

Byline:

Roy Palk

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Rethinking How To Value Energy Savings In Smaller Businesses

In behavioral programs, where small businesses make all kinds of changes, attributing energy savings is not straightforward.

Evaluators could be performing nearly the identical regression analysis, but with the logarithm of energy usage as a dependent variable.

Byline:

Colin Fraser

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Commercial DG: Case for Financeable Contracts

DG lenders and developers should consider standardizing a model form of energy service agreement.

Let's review factors influencing the development of distributed generation, with an emphasis on the need for financeable and deployable contracts on which DG can be financed, constructed and operated.

Byline:

Nicholas Giannasca

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Order 745: Challenge to Plain Old Power Markets

The Order will extend application of load-reducing technologies and marketing to a new class of services.

The marginal external benefits provided by demand response prove more than sufficient to overcome concerns that paying LMP was too expensive.

Byline:

Charles Cicchetti

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Reinvigorating a Century Old Business Model

The Power of Efficient Capital

Customers don’t have to wait decades while the grid incrementally evolves to incorporate transformational technologies. Led by customer-driven choices and decisions, we in the utility industry can and should accelerate the transition.

Byline:

Larry Kellerman

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Obligations and Opportunities: Wires Cos. Plug In to Clean Power Plan

Vol. 1: “If It’s Stayed, Why Should I Go?”

When the the Clean Power Plan is reviewed on the merits in Fall 2017, Justice Scalia will have been replaced, and the newest justice may hold the key to the fate of the plan.

Byline:

Brendan Collins

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Utilities' Role in Transport Electrification: Capturing Benefits for All Ratepayers

Utility load growth from EVs can actually benefit all ratepayers by providing societal benefits and reducing utilities’ average cost of service.

An EV charging infrastructure network only provides value and reduces range anxiety to the degree it is well maintained.

Byline:

Nancy Ryan and Lucy McKenzie

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PPL CEO Interviewed

We went to Allentown and talked with Bill Spence.

What are the most exciting things happening at PPL? What were the biggest challenges in that journey? Were there some tough challenges you had to get through?

Byline:

Bill Spence, with Steve Mitnick

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