2040: A Pricing Odyssey
Waking Up in the Future
How to price electricity when the grid goes 100 percent green.
Perspective
Eversource: Tour of Seafood Way Substation
Visiting Eversource
Look Up. It’s a 345kV Substation.
Eversource: Tour of Fenway Park
Visiting Eversource
Eversource and Red Sox team up on energy efficiency at Fenway.
Eversource: Offshore Wind
Visiting Eversource
"More than sixty percent of costs of offshore wind have been taken out over the last five years."
Eversource: Energy Efficiency
Visiting Eversource
"What we're trying to do is, rather than give a rebate, influence the channel to only stock the right products so the inefficient product doesn't even come to market."
Eversource: Resiliency and Grid Modernization
Visiting Eversource
"We’re asking the grid to do more today and for those using technology to create more value for customers."
Eversource: Jim Judge, CEO
Visiting Eversource
"Thanks to our high credit rating, we can borrow cheaper than any other utility, which means the customers benefit in terms of lower rates."
Visiting Eversource
Unique Conversations
Shaking off the morning chill though April it was, two days in Boston, touring the infrastructure and offices of Eversource, squeezing in stops at Fenway and Faneuil Hall. The utility for much of New England claims first place among the nation's investor-owned companies in credit rating, energy efficiency and offshore wind and has championship aspirations to match the local sports franchises. In a whirlwind we were shuttled from interview to interview, all reproduced here for your tasting, as delicious as a fresh lobster roll for us utility regulation and policy wonks.
Toward A New Energy Efficiency World Order
Revisit Our Metrics
Changing how we measure and define energy efficiency is not insignificant. We are talking about a paradigm shift.
Reducing Perceived and Actual Risks Associated with Deploying Innovative Technologies
Easing Regulator Reticence
This article suggests an alternative means of developing a Technology Risk Mitigation Program to address PUCs’ reticence to approve technologies with which they are unfamiliar.