Environmental

Low Carbon Research Initiative is launched with Mike Howard, Kim Greene, Stan Connally, Paul Browning, and Arshad Mansoor.

“The value of non-intermittent, dispatchable emission-free power, which carbon capture can provide, is likely to be substantial and qualitatively different than today.”

“As we build out a clean energy future, it’s a team sport. We’re working with customers to understand energy needs and have customer-sited generation and storage incorporated into the grid.”

“T&D utilities are the center of where the decarbonization discussion is going to happen, because we’ve already seen the beginning of that transformation on the wholesale side.”

“Utilities have an opportunity to orchestrate and optimize supply and demand. This orchestration formula is the path to a clean and lean energy future.”

Inspiring utility CEOs discuss efforts to help their customers decarbonize, the impacts they are seeing, and the most promising paths to decarbonization for their companies and their customers.

Since forecasts predict much of the future charging load associated with EVs will occur at home, residential time-varying rates will be a valuable tool for utilities to manage system costs by influencing EV charging behavior.

This article considers the opportunities and challenges of evaluating beneficial electrification investments using a BCA framework that has routinely been used for energy efficiency. It describes the traditional energy efficiency BCA tests, explores how the allocation of benefits and costs change for beneficial electrification investments, and offers suggestions that policymakers and analysts may consider when interpreting BCA test results.

Economic incentives will aid in developing technologies and infrastructure necessary to take advantage of RNG.

Some states have explored the concept of value-stacked rate designs, such as New York, but much more needs to be done – often requiring enabling legislation.