Smart Grid

“In Vermont, a state-commission-established working group was tasked with estimating resources that could be flexibly managed. That work found that nearly 20% of residential demand and 20% of commercial and industrial demand could be flexibly managed.”

“This article describes a path to building healthy, modernized, and intelligent grid systems that can flexibly respond to changing pressures within this dynamic environment through no-regret investments that are robust across multiple possible future scenarios.”

“ISO New England is the regional planner, and we work closely. They’ve identified in 2050 that they expect the winter peak in New England to double. What that means for VELCO and many other transmission owners in New England is line upgrades.”

“We have improved the reliability of the system by 35% in the first two years of operations. It’s quite a record in the U.S. for any utility. It would be hard to find any that have improved by 35% in two years in frequency of outages, and 20% of duration of outages in comparison to the previous year.”

Decarbonization policies will impact utilities, the grid, and planning.

We cannot afford to let our guard down on security while most of the world is focused on the pandemic.

“The continued rise of consumer-related technology is going to increase time-of-use rates.”

The economies-of-scale, one-way delivery model is fading. Performance, choice command a premium.

The utility of the future will be more renewable, distributed and democratic because it can be and it must be, given the arc of technology, economics and human preference.

Grid-connected battery storage is both a relatively new industry and complex.