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.

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This 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

DEFINING THE VALUE OF THE GRID

Early in the 20th century, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison debated and competed on the merits and benefits of AC versus DC. Later, Samuel Insull and Franklin D. Roosevelt sparred over regulatory structure. Today, technology and emerging regulatory policy are allowing the possibility of an “integrated grid” and “transactive energy.” The integrated grid uses our legacy electric generation, transmission and distribution systems as a platform for the integration of new distributed energy resource technologies such as demand response, energy storage and distributed generation (DG).

APPLYING ‘TOTEX’ TO ELECTRIC AND GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION ASSETS

As the North American electric and gas industries continue to strive for systemwide improvement, the concept of conducting life cycle cost evaluations is gaining momentum — and so is a new term to describe it. Technologies that embrace a total expenditure, or totex, approach can enhance overall asset performance. A totex plan helps you make the most of your project.

 

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Keeping the Lights On: Addressing the challenge of distributed energy resource growth

 
The rise of distributed energy resources (DERs) is an exciting and interesting opportunity for customers, and a challenge and opportunity for the utilities and the organizations that regulate them.
 
In this white paper, West Monroe Partners takes a comprehensive look at the present and future state of DERs through multiple lenses: customer adoption and awareness; utilities’ adoption challenges and opportunities, and support and planning initiatives; and regulatory commissions’ actions, obstacles and perceptions.