Nikola Tesla Meets Popular Culture
Birthdays
In its second season, “Epic Rap Battles of History,” the YouTube web series, featured Nikola Tesla versus Thomas Edison, referring to the Battle of the Currents.
Perspective
Managing Risk of Innovation Deployment
An Insurance Model
If the new technology is not successful, customers may pay for both the failed experiment and the energy or technology to replace the failed equipment.
More Efficient Way to Help Low Income Families
Doing Well, Doing Good
We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift that we in energy efficiency thought was nearly impossible: behavior change.
Missing an Opportunity for Building Systems Efficiency?
Systems Efficiency Initiative
An area with high potential for scaling up energy savings is utility-led programs that incorporate systems efficiency approaches.
Save Some Power Plants, Clean Up the Cars
Remember to Breathe Series
EPA and Transportation are considering freezing standards for five years at 2020 levels. That’s a step backwards for clean air. It should be worrying to the power sector.
FERC's Dedication to Competition Results in Bureaucracy and Intervention
Setting Rules Without Platonic Ideal of Competition
As Ulysses S. Grant said, ‘I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws [or regulations] so effective as their stringent execution.’
NARUC in Tbilisi
Regulatory Volunteers Making a Difference
Through the support of the U.S. AID, NARUC and the Georgia National Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, have collaborated on key regulatory issues since 2008.
How Utilities Can Extend the Regulated Model
Opportunities for Growth and New Services
A complementary evolutionary strategy may yield near-term bottom line results while the longer-term journey to revolutionize the regulatory model is underway.
Not Just for Lawyers
Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas Pipelines
Can FERC reliably predict whether, when, renewables and storage will become sufficiently economically, technically feasible to displace fossil fuel generation?
The Energy Customer Transformation
Investing in Platforms and Business Models
Be obsessed with customers, data, and needs. Build the customer journey and test it.