The Long and Short of Grid Congestion
FTRs make hedging possible, but can PJM ensure full funding without playing favorites?
Financial traders believe PJM’s proposal discriminates since they are more likely to hold counter-flow FTRs.
Musk and Me
I signed up for a free quote on line.
With all the talk of the “existential threat” to traditional utilities from solar and other disruptive technologies (and the blowback against net metering in various states), I thought I’d check out SolarCity first hand.
Technological Innovation and Public Policy-Making
The new grid will be driven by opportunities for electric utilities and customers to monetize their economic opportunities.
Policy-maker’s perspective: It's important to permit utilities to become more efficient and develop alternative revenue streams.
Schneiderman Targets Peabody Energy
Shareholder Protection or War on Coal?
Why did Schneiderman sue Peabody? Because Peabody is America’s biggest coal company. He also likely wanted to establish a precedent before launching a Martin Act investigation of even bigger game: ExxonMobil.
New Regulatory Paradigm Needed Now
The time is now for establishing concrete rules, roles and responsibilities for utilities and other participants.
Driven by policy directives over which utilities have little control, DERs will remain both a threat and opportunity until regulators agree on a new paradigm to support distributed energy resources.
Improving Performance in Publicly Owned Utilities
Consistently setting, measuring, and updating quantitative performance metrics should be a central feature of any program.
Modern performance-management practices can – and should – be applied to public and private utilities alike.
Utility Streetlighting Retrofits
Getting to “yes” with cities and neighborhoods.
Xcel Energy Colorado envisioned a straightforward plan: Street by street, city by city, in a logical progression over five years, they would replace High-Pressure Sodium streetlights with Light-Emitting Diode lamps. But that’s not what happened.
Utilities' Role in Transport Electrification: Promoting Competition, Balancing Risks
First of two-part series. See part two, Capturing Benefits for All Ratepayers, in the April 2016 issue.
Utility investments to support EV adoption may be structured and scaled to benefit all customers.
Harbinger or Anomaly?
As it becomes more routine for developers to offer cost containment commitments, it will become increasingly difficult for RTOs to ignore the cost impact of proposals.
Are recent transmission developer selections based on cost containment a harbinger of the future or just an anomaly?
FERC Revises Market-Based Rate Procedures
Order 816 indicates the commission is scrutinizing the underlying calculations of market power analyses.
This revision could have significant impact on market power analyses of certain franchised utilities and affiliated MBR entities.