Strategy & Planning

A more active and informed citizenry, involved in plotting electricity's path forward, isn't a cold, hard truth. It's a good thing.

AEIC's Power Delivery Committee met in March 2017 to discuss advances that were being deployed at host company Oncor and in the industry at large.

In prior articles, we focused on the important impact that the energy efficiency industry has had on the current North American energy economy. In this essay, we share our thoughts on the ways this segment will be challenged to drive innovation as it continues to mature. We also discuss the evolving role demand side management will play in the energy industry and the utility of the future.

Amid the uncertainty surrounding the new presidential administration's environmental policies, wind power prices in the Great Plains region are now averaging around $20 per megawatt-hour. According to a new report from Moody's Investors Service, many utilities are capitalizing on this cheap wind, using it to grow rate base or replace inefficient coal-fired assets.

We in the energy industry need to have a strong voice when tomorrow's workforce makes career choices. We need to show our stuff, and get them energized about the vitally important work we do.

Throughout a spate of civil wars between 1989 and 2003, Liberia’s burgeoning electricity system was central to the power struggle. Its systematic destruction by rebel forces left a once-viable economic structure in shambles. Fifteen years later, Liberians still cope with the fallout.