DOE and Two Top Utility Experts Address Threats to the Grid
Three of the Country's Top Cybersecurity Experts Talk Shop
Energy Transition Bridge Fuel: Do We Still Need Natural Gas
The notion that natural gas would serve as a “bridge fuel” to facilitate the transition toward a cleaner energy future from the dominance of fossil fuel consumption in power generation, industrial production, and transportation sectors first was promoted in the 1970s in the wake of the energy crisis.
African American Leaders Discuss Today's Challenges
Five senior utility execs, at five of the nation's largest utilities, all of them African Americans, discuss in this four-part series the challenges of COVID-19, decarbonization and racism.
Questions State Legislators Should Ask Utility Regulators and Utilities About the Virus Crisis
Video Roundtables Fortnightly #1
PDi2 Publishes Utility Infrastructure Resiliency Playbook
Resiliency programs can deliver significant benefits, especially to reduce the frequency or duration of power outages. Power Delivery Intelligence Initiative (PDi2) has published a Utility Infrastructure Resiliency Playbook that focuses specifically on strategic undergrounding as an approach that can provide a positive cost and benefit outcome.
THE RESIDENTIAL SOLAR RETROFIT MARKET IN CALIFORNIA IS BEGINNING TO SATURATE
“After a decade of explosive growth in the residential solar photovoltaic (PV) market, in 2017 California saw its first decrease in annual residential solar installations. This paper suggests that the most probable cause of this downturn is the beginning of market saturation in the residential retrofit market (as differentiated from the new construction market).
Navigating the Energy Transformation: Building a Competitive Advantage for Energy Cloud 2.0.
Submitted by Joe Paparello on Wed, 2016-09-14 11:00This Navigant webinar will explore key megatrends driving change across the global utilities industry and market shifts toward a cleaner, more distributed, and increasingly intelligent grid. Drawing on a panel of industry stakeholders, Jan Vrins, the Global Practice Leader for Energy at Navigant and Mackinnon Lawrence senior research director at Navigant, will explore how the Energy Cloud will affect utility customers, technology trends, business models, regulations, and operations.
Beneficial Electrification Case Study
In today’s energy market, many utilities are experiencing flat or declining electricity sales resulting from efficiency programs, adoption of distributed energy resources, and other economic factors. These utilities face the dual challenge of increasing revenue while also implementing programs that benefit the industry and the community with cleaner technologies that can reduce air pollution and provide a positive overall environmental impact.
State and Future of the Power Industry
Editor-in-Chief Steve Mitnick conducted a roundtable interview with Navigant’s leading industry experts focusing on topics like renewables, distributed energy resources (DER), and how the Energy Cloud is transforming the industry and becoming a priority for C-level utility executives. Jan Vrins, Karin Corfee, Rob Wilhite, David O’Brien, Jay Paidipati, Mackinnon Lawrence, and Colette Lamontagne highlighted key changes utilities can expect in the future a
BECOMING THE NEXT GENERATION (NXG) UTILITY
The value of the electric grid has never been greater, but the challenges of realizing that value have never been stronger.