Four Thought-Leaders: Thoughts on Our Future
Pace of change is causing significant disruption
Electrification of everything, steel for fuel, future of gas, new business and regulation models, innovation, black swans.
Perspective
Four CEOs on Innovation
Sustaining Momentum
A virtual roundtable with Patti Poppe of CMS Energy, Scott Prochazka of CenterPoint Energy, Connie Lau of Hawaiian Electric Industries and Ben Fowke of Xcel Energy.
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.
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.