Environmental Community Looks Forward
We’re Electrifying the Road
To meet 2050 carbon reduction goals, we need to electrify almost all light-duty and many heavy-duty vehicles.
EVs & Storage
Electrifying America's Buses
We’re Electrifying the Road
It’s quite a daunting technical challenge to build an electric vehicle that can serve as a U.S. mass transit bus.
Coming Together to Plan EV Future
We’re Electrifying the Road
There has been too much litigation in the state commissions, and therefore our mantra has been let’s strive for more collaboration and less litigation.
Ready for a Fifty Percent Demand Spike?
Electric Vehicles are Coming
Utility control over EV chargers, tariffs and time of use rates could help avoid localized problems.
Common Storage Misperceptions
Costs, Competitveness, Technology
Grid-connected battery storage is both a relatively new industry and complex.
Storage: Turning Disruptive Technology into Opportunity
Commercial Customer Case Study
Recent declines in energy storage costs have allowed businesses and homeowners to economically store electricity for a few hours. It is long enough to disrupt peak demand charges that many utilities rely on for their cash flows.
Hydrogen Power
A New Initiative, a New Fuel Cell Car
General Motors unveiled its Autonomy fuel cell car, which it says is the first vehicle designed exclusively for the fuel cell.
Utilities' Role in Transport Electrification: Promoting Competition, Balancing Risks
First of two-part series. See part two, Capturing Benefits for All Ratepayers, in the April 2016 issue.
Utility investments to support EV adoption may be structured and scaled to benefit all customers.
Four Utilities, Four Strategies
Installing utility-scale, grid-connected battery storage.
Stories on installing grid-connected battery storage from AEP, Green Mountain Power, Imperial Irrigation District, and Kauai Island (Hawaii) Utility Co-op.
Drinking the Electric Kool-Aid
Battery Storage: The hoopla far exceeds the reality.
Mahler’s music was better than it sounded, and so is battery energy storage.