Frontlines & Op-Ed

Forging a Path to the Modern Grid

Energy Efficiency Solutions

It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.

Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.

Charge!

The Historic Mission Renewed
It is ironic. When the power of electricity is interrupted, only then do we see electricity.

NARUC in Wintertime

Utility Regulation and Policy Wait For No Man.

See You at this Year’s Winter Meeting on Edison’s Birthday (February 11).

Ten Predictions for 2018

NOPR Over and Over. Bills Lower and Lower.

Energy storage will advance, electrification will pick up, allowed rates of return will be reconsidered.

Can of Worms

Energy Department NOPR Forcing Difficult Conversations

Parties are warring over whether preventing certain plants from retiring makes the grid resilient.

To Further Electrify

How much energy should/could be electrified?

Further electrifying wouldn’t make sense if cleanliness in its production, and efficiency in its usage, had been purchased with electricity’s essential advantages as payment.