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Solar Consumer Education and Protection

Consumers should embrace clean energy alternatives only after educating themselves on the technologies and necessary commitments

Consumer Counts: It is critical that stakeholders in the energy space maintain an open dialogue with consumers and create and uphold good, consistent standards, education and protections.

Byline:

Sheri Givens

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Rate Structure Philosophy

Rate design will need to become more flexible, more duly discriminatory, more tailored to the diversity of consumers

Not many know fixed charges are there to cover utilities’ invariant costs for keeping up the grid, and can be half of all costs.

Byline:

Steve Mitnick

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Securing the Smart Grid

Questions and answers on consumer privacy and threats to the grid – both physical and cyber.

The economic argument for investments in the smart grid is clear: the payback from those technologies in the U.S. is likely three to six times greater than the money invested, and grows with each sequence of grid improvement.

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