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.
EVs & Storage
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.
How to Jump Start Electric Cars: Charging Companies
Car-charging could and should be an industry separate from traditional utility activities.
When the Wright brothers took to the air, they did not worry that one day new industries would be needed to fulfill the promise of their inventions.
From Grid to Cloud
A network of networks – in search of an orchestrator.
The Energy Cloud will change the way we generate, store, and consume energy by changing from a one-way power flow to a dynamic network of networks supporting two-way energy and information flows.
Playing Offense with EVs
How much of a $100 billion market in electric vehicles can utilities capture – or afford not to?
Electric transportation can be the utility sector’s growth engine — $100 billion or more per year — if the industry embraces the opportunities ahead.