Who Are You Guys?
I asked ACS.
ACS, Advanced Control Systems, a high-tech company based in Atlanta, is a go-to, real-time energy management solution provider of the highest quality innovative products.
Beware of Vertical Arrangements for Gas Procurement
Owning gas reserves benefits consumers?
Regulators should start with the premise that long-term contracting with an independent gas producer or middleman is preferable (e.g., with a marketer). Vertical arrangements pose a number of tough questions for state public utility regulators.
States Want to Know About Utility Biz Models
Issue brief being released this summer.
While details of electricity business models are the purview of commissions, governors can play a key role in shaping the conversation.
Line Dividing Regulation and Management
Utility performance, investment versus dividends, rate of return incentives
Generally speaking, regulatory commissions and courts are not anxious to substitute their judgement for that of utility management. A recent example where state regulators found it prudent to gingerly cross the line can be seen in a recent case involving Indianapolis Power and Light Company.
It's a Five-Minute World
New rule would align price settlements with real-time dispatch.
A misalignment of scheduling and price settlement opens the door to mischief.
Getting Berned
What’s the price tag of banning fracking?
Ironically, a ban on fracking would increase coal generation, which emits carbon dioxide at twice the rate of gas generation.
EPRI Explores Augmented Reality to Improve Grid Reliability
Innovating Like Edison: Utility workers with superpowers?
Smart meters are a reality but are smart poles and smart helmets right behind them? Often in the form of wearable computers or “wearables,” devices are potentially able to communicate from an endless variety of devices in the form of visual cues and data, sound, and even information based on touch.
High Performance Transmission Conductors Are Improving Grid Efficiency
And why it matters.
Leveraging high performance conductors has become particularly important today. They not only serve to improve efficiency and reliability, they also allow us to increase the capacity of existing transmission lines so we can access cleaner sources of generation.
Community Solar: States Are Testing Designs While Driving Forward
Minnesota, Oregon, New York case studies
Minnesota, Oregon and New York are certainly not alone in testing shared solar models. But the developments in each state in spring 2016 should shed light on the ability to deliver on the promise of community solar.
Tax Implications of NEM Successor Policies
Federal income tax treatment has nothing to do with pricing sale of electricity to utility or customer.
Advocates for net metering argue that if the electricity delivered by the customer to the utility is credited at the full retail rate, the amount is not taxable, but if credited at less than the full retail rate, such as under a feed-in tariff or a value of solar tariff, the IRS might count the credited amount as taxable income. A tax expert fills us in on the other side of the story.