New Maryland Legislation Advances Consumer Interest in Clean Energy
An Environmental Mandate
“OPC will advocate for a market structure that promotes innovative decarbonizing technologies and ensures they are provided cost effectively.”
Perspective
What Makes Building Transmission So Hard?
ScottMadden
There are generators who want to get projects built, but they don’t know until very late in the process what it’s actually going to cost to upgrade the associated transmission system.
Challenges of Reviewing Merger Proposals
Issues for State Utility Regulators
“Liberalized conditions complicate the state regulators’ job of evaluating whether a proposal to merge a utility is in the public interest and place the responsibility to protect retail customers almost entirely on regulators.”
Old Insurance Policies Could Be Worth Their Weight in Gold, Part 1
Environmental Contamination
State environmental agencies continue to discover long-hidden contamination around the country. Contamination may turn up after dredging activities, ground water sampling or new building projects on redeveloped sites. When these discoveries are made, those agencies begin the process of finding the source of pollution, which may require historical research on old uses of the surrounding properties.
Banner Year for State Leadership in Energy Efficiency
Post-Pandemic Job Creation
“Energy efficiency represents the kind of infrastructure investment that will power our economy as we emerge from the throes of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Equity to Elevate Diverse Innovators
Elevate Future Initiative
“We want to make sure that under-represented founders and entrepreneurs – what I call the underestimated – have the chance to take part in this economy.”
Utility Industry Innovates to Protect from Cyberattacks
Energy Impact Partners
In April, the Biden Administration launched a 100-day action plan to address cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure in the U.S. electric system.
EPRI on Wildfire Mitigation
Ecosystem Risk and Resiliency
An Environmental Scientist Works the Problem: a conversation with one of the lead researchers at EPRI.
Aloha State Moves Quickly to Keep Lights on with Customer Solar + Storage
Innovation Bridges the Gap
In exchange for the battery incentives, participating customer-generators will agree to discharge their batteries in a coordinated way with the utility for a period of ten years.
How to Modernize the Electric Grid
Rethinking Our Vision
With even the simplest transmission project taking a decade or more, we should take some specific, short- and medium-term actions.