Perspective

“Any pricing change will disbenefit some customers. You can manage that issue with proper customer education and customer engagement.”

“A new pilot tariff incentivizes aggregation of customer-owned DERs in targeted locations to avoid upgrading power lines and replacing expensive equipment like transformers.”

“Addressing global climate change and other vexing problems facing the world requires long-term thinking and a stable and consistent public policy to attract investments needed to finance actions to meet net-zero targets.”

In the electric utility industry, decoupling is currently used in 19 jurisdictions. This count includes decoupling approvals by regulators in two jurisdictions that take effect in July.

“The take-private acquisition of Navigant and merger with Guidehouse transforms the public sector, commercial sector, advanced technology, and management consulting landscapes.”

“Passive house goes beyond obvious ways to reduce loads, like insulation, and provides a rigorous approach to minimizing thermal bridging and amount of air that can leak through a building’s envelope.”

A conversation with ResilientGrid’s CEO Mike Legatt on the human factors in grid resilience.

PUF reviews Judge Richard Cudahy’s famous 1995 article on the so-called Midnight Connection that led to the disconnection of the Texas grid from the eastern and western grids. Even more relevant today given the ERCOT meltdown.

The PUF team excerpts one of the most respected assessments of the state of our cybersecurity.

The Edison Electric Institute held its annual briefing on the state of the electric power industry in mid-February.