Rate Design 3.0
Future of Rate Design
The best rate is going to be a modern three-part rate for all customers.
Frontlines & Op-Ed
Energy's Spend and Workplace Diversity
Why leaders drive diversity
Economists can show how buyers benefit when there is a broader pool of sellers competing with each other. This is true whether a buyer is a family looking for a restaurant meal or a utility seeking a new hire or a contractor. In the following nine conversations with utility execs and regulators and others in our industry, we heard again and again how diversity spend and diversity in the workplace increases competition and rewards companies and their consumers. Check out what leaders at Duke Energy, Exelon/BGE, Sempra/SDG&E, etc. told us about why they drive diversity:
In Diversity There is Energy
Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion. Glorious Additions to the Strings
Diverse teams tend to be more curious, dynamic, creative. Groupthink is less likely, anticipating the unanticipated, more likely.
Boards and Regulators Questions Asked
Finding Good Answers
Here is a list of questions my board member wanted me to answer.
Forging a Path to the Modern Grid
Energy Efficiency Solutions
It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.
Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.
The Kilowatt-hour is Dead; Don’t Send Flowers
Tech Turmoil Ahead
The opportunity for AI to take over management of local microgrids will make community choice aggregation easier than ordering a Lyft or Uber.
Charge!
The Historic Mission Renewed
It is ironic. When the power of electricity is interrupted, only then do we see electricity.
Report from NARUC Winter Quarters
Tantalus, Unicorns, Zombies
Michael Webber is the professor and poet of the water-energy nexus. Here are a few streams of his fascinating consciousness.
Imagining Electricity's Future, in Long Beach
‘Electrification is the Foundation, for the Population.’
For the consumer, electric energy is simple, small, safe, silent, clean, cool, controllable, instantaneous.
NARUC in Wintertime
Utility Regulation and Policy Wait For No Man.
See You at this Year’s Winter Meeting on Edison’s Birthday (February 11).