Electrification Voices: Sheryl Carter
Natural Resources Defense Council
“We see ourselves needing to go from the twenty percent of the U.S. economy that is electrified today to about forty-five percent.”
Perspective
Electrification Voices: Tom Fanning
A strategic blueprint for the way forward
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Tell me what gets you excited about EPRI's Efficient Electrification initiative.
Tom Fanning: I think the potential demise of the electric utility industry has been way overstated. In fact, I view the electrification initiative as a strategic blueprint for the way forward for electricity use in America.
It has so many advantages: economic, environmental, and operational. It's going to be good for customers, good for the economy, and good for the utility industry.
Electrification Voices: Pedro Pizarro
CEO, Edison International
“At the national level, with an endpoint of 2050, you could see adoption of electric technologies above the usual base case.”
Electrification Perspectives
Modern life requires electricity
Second great age of electrification is digital and just gaining momentum.
Clean Energy & Water
Vital To India’s Future
G.R.I.D. initiative works to enable access to clean drinking water through clean, affordable energy.
Airlines: Like Electric Utilities
Deregulation: A History Lesson
It dawned on me. The early days of DER mirror the early days of airline deregulation, with two fundamental differences.
Big City, Lights Back On
For decades Kathmandu (Nepal) all but disappeared when the sun went down.
Aggressive demand-side management is reviving the city’s economy.
When Water Meets Energy
Each essential. Each dependent on the other.
Water depends on energy and energy depends on water, creating opportunities for synergies and efficiencies.
Microgrids: Where's the Beef?
Integration beats islanding, anyway you slice it.
A microgrid is a throwback. It’s anathema to what we know about economies of scale. Integration is what maximizes the ability of least-cost resources to reach load. By interfering with least-cost dispatch, microgrids can only raise energy costs.
EPA, NERC and Reliability
Expect more analysis – more scenarios, more detail – as state compliance plans become better known.
As things stand today, even without the Clean Power Plan, we expect to see the retirement of more than 6 percent of North America’s generation capacity by 2030.