When Water Meets Energy
Each essential. Each dependent on the other.
Water depends on energy and energy depends on water, creating opportunities for synergies and efficiencies.
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A Tale of Two Technologies
Uncle Sam didn’t frack this one up.
Technological progress can be function of productive public-private partnerships that help shoulder risks and raise capital.
Energy Politics are Combustible
Many in business back EPA, but the new Congress has yet to weigh in.
The comment period closes on EPA’s Clean Power Plan, but Congress is holding its cards close to the vest.
Utility Commissioners and Who They Trust
A survey sample of regulators on their dealings with peers, colleagues, staffers, and stakeholders.
How do regulators engage their staffs and colleagues? How do they view their peers in other states? The utilities they regulate? A unique view based on a sample survey of former state utility commissioners.
Modernizing with Trackers
Time-tested cost recovery mechanisms provide stable funding for infrastructure replacement.
Automatic tracker surcharges provide timely cost recovery for multi-year utility system improvement programs.
America’s Energy Future: So Who Are the Good Guys?
Not just ‘all of the above,’ but ‘how much of each?’
For proponents of a clean energy economy, identifying the “good guys” is no easy task.
Smaller, Cheaper, and More Resilient
The rationale for microgrids.
Despite an array of challenges, microgrids are becoming a force in the market. Innovative projects bring greater efficiency and resilience.