The End of Big Iron
Emerging Cost Advantages
How wind and solar became cheaper than hydro, coal, and nuclear.
Transmission
Planning and Regulatory Reforms to Unleash Transmission Investment
Improving the Grid
Proactive investment in the transmission grid is needed now to grow, sustain, and protect our twenty-first century economy.
Ask Not What Customers Can Do for RTO Markets
Ask What RTO Markets Can Do for Customers
Centralized markets are a supporting actor in the industry. They are important, but not author, producer, director, and leading actor in the play.
Michigan PSC: Electric Distribution Infrastructure
Pat Hudson and Ryan Laruwe
“The long-term goal is to integrate more of the distribution plans, the IRPs, and the transmission expansion planning that goes on separately and bring them all together.”
Hydro One's CEO Mayo Schmidt
Leadership Lyceum’s Podcast Summary
Three months after Mayo joined, Hydro One completed its IPO, raising $1.8 billion in gross proceeds.
Forging a Path to the Modern Grid
Energy Efficiency Solutions
It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.
Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.
The Kilowatt-hour is Dead; Don’t Send Flowers
Tech Turmoil Ahead
The opportunity for AI to take over management of local microgrids will make community choice aggregation easier than ordering a Lyft or Uber.
A Different Grid Perspective
Like a River
We must stop viewing the grid as a means of transporting electricity from point “A” to point “B.”
TVA-PMA Privatization
A Bad Policy Idea That Refuses to Die
We hope Congress will reject the proposed sale of TVA and PMA transmission assets and the proposed conversion to market-based rates.
Building Transmission: Barry Mortimeyer
Transmission for California’s Central Valley
An interview with Barry Mortimeyer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.