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After almost 30 years, electric competition has protected customers from exorbitant costs on the generation and sale of electricity, even reducing charges below costs at the 1996 market opening.
In the 1990s, Pennsylvania, and many other states, faced an energy crisis with electric supply shortages, rolling blackouts, and skyrocketing rates. At the time, the Commonwealth permitted monopoly control of the electric utility market. To address these issues, legislators took a bold step forward... Read More
Proactively upgrading the grid to accommodate medium- and heavy-duty vehicles can yield millions in savings for customers of two major U.S utilities
Though the electrification of trucks and buses is expected to make up only a small share of overall national energy consumption, it could require new or upgraded grid infrastructure locally. This has posed a chicken or egg dilemma for state energy regulators and utilities: build the infrastructure... Read More
Breakthrough for Grid Modernization
Managing the complexity of today's power grid within the distributed energy system poses significant challenges. With the rapid expansion of intermittent renewables, the rise of prosumers and Distributed Energy Resources, growing electrification, and escalating power demand, utilities are finding... Read More
A framework for and case studies of modern gas utility planning processes
The energy sector is in the midst of a profound transition as it shifts away from fossil fuels to renewable energy and a decarbonized economy. As such, natural gas utilities are at risk of stagnating customer growth and declining demand per customer due to competition from cost-effective... Read More
Quantum Edge device: the smartphone for the Distribution Grid
According to the International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook report, global electricity demand is set to increase rapidly in all scenarios as a result of population and income growth and the electrification of increasing numbers of end-uses. By 2050, demand for electricity will rise... Read More
A guide to what utilities need to know
The utilities sector is experiencing major flux as it undergoes digital transformation. Utilities are investing in new technologies to modernize the grid and improve the existing grid’s security, reliability, and resiliency. As a result, utilities increasingly require access to a wireless network... Read More
Modernizing electric grid services with private LTE
Learn how the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) partnered to design a model private LTE network built on Ericsson radio technology to support a next-generation smart grid for its members and validated its viability in a trial with West Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.,... Read More
Inflation, Real GDP, Stock Market Volatility and Term Spread
Shakespeare wrote, “Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge.”Indeed, the past does not determine the future, not even for stock returns and the market risk premium. The Securities Exchange Commission requires mutual fund prospectuses to include the caveat that a... Read More