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, EV Charging & 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.
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.
Energy People: Mike Caranfa
Caranfa is a senior sales leader at Honeywell
Mike Caranfa leads sales efforts for the electricity and water businesses in the Americas.
Utilities' Role in Transport Electrification: Capturing Benefits for All Ratepayers
Utility load growth from EVs can actually benefit all ratepayers by providing societal benefits and reducing utilities’ average cost of service.
An EV charging infrastructure network only provides value and reduces range anxiety to the degree it is well maintained.
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.
Getting Smart about the Integrated Grid
In New York it’s where we’re staking our energy future.
Disruptive technologies such as microgrids and battery storage devices are commendable but they are supporting actors and must still work with the centralized grid.
Storage Grows Up
More than just energy, it's becoming part of the grid.
One of the most striking aspects of the state's "Reforming the Energy Vision" initiative is the unique role it assigns to energy storage. Utilities may own distributed storage without concern over competitive implications when it becomes a part of the distribution network.
Creative Disruption
Today’s technologies are causing utilities to rethink their business models.
Fifteen years into the 21st Century, the utility industry is being asked to think forward, beyond 2050. To some, that's a bit of a stretch for a mostly regulated enterprise that has been producing power and sending the electrons reliably for the last 150 years or so. To many others, though, it's past time for an evolution.