Renewables

Hurricane Season: How Prepared is Your State?

Develop a Water Sector Emergency Handbook

“Resilience planning means thinking ahead and contemplating as many unknowns as you can. As a utility regulator, you must consider thwarting opportunities and vulnerabilities that storms might give bad actors to infiltrate operating systems.”

Water Affordability 2.0

Energy Efficiency Savings

“Energy efficiency is most likely where the greatest savings can be made while producing a reliable product and guarding public health for water companies of any size.“

The Hard Work of Renewables Grid Integration

GE Vernova

“Our Operate portfolio is designed to help electric utilities manage disruption more effectively. It provides software technology that facilitates better decision making, helping operators predict potential damage or risk, streamline responses, and generally recover faster from an event.”

Innovative Hybrid Renewable Energy: EDP's Alqueva Park

EEI

“EDP has tangible and realistic transition plans in place to convert its coal plants into green hubs using emerging technologies like renewable hydrogen and storage. Projects like Alqueva Park are part of EDP’s green growth strategy, aligning with the clean energy transition and consolidating core technologies and regions.”

Hydro Can Power the Energy Transition or Not If We Don't Act

National Hydropower Assoc.

“There are only about 100 nuclear plants. For hydropower, there are about 2,500. A silent phenomenon is we’re struggling to get the same intensity of concern for hydropower because it doesn’t get as much attention as the nuclear plants do.”

Tapping Solar Power from the Darkness of Space

EPRI

“One out-of-this-world option is space, where the sun is always shining. The challenge lies in getting this space-based solar power safely and efficiently back to Earth. EPRI is always looking for ways to innovate as part of the energy transition, and we’ve begun monitoring SBSP research, and advances needed to enable this technology.

A Future for Pumped Storage Hydro?

Hydropower

Despite the license and permitting hurdles, utilities around the country are taking a harder look at pumped storage hydro options. Potential benefits from federal tax credits might make an asset like pumped storage, which has a long asset life, more attractive as a storage option.

Northwest Hydro: Lisa Grow

Idaho Power

Hydro has been critical to the integration of renewable energy. You couldn’t build enough renewables across a portfolio or a geographic area that could provide the kind of flexibility and reliability that hydro brings.

Northwest Hydro: John Hairston

Bonneville Power Administration

Hydropower’s role as a balancing resource is going to be more important than ever. Hydropower is reliable, flexible, and clean, which makes it a perfect companion to intermittent renewable energy resources.