PUF Quant Services
Monthly Summary Report: Feb. 2018
We track quantitatively the monthly trends in the value of electricity, the grid's carbon footprint, and the grid's integration of distributed and intermittent generation.
Law & Lawyers
Talking Texas Markets, Part 1
Thought, Legislative and Regulatory Certainty
Interviews with Pat Wood, Former FERC and Texas PUC Chair; Kenny Mercado, SVP, CenterPoint; Jim Steffes, EVP, Direct Energy; and Ken Medlock, Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, Rice University.
Environmental Community Looks Forward
We’re Electrifying the Road
To meet 2050 carbon reduction goals, we need to electrify almost all light-duty and many heavy-duty vehicles.
On Track at Electrification 2018
Seven Conference Tracks
EPRI has organized Electrification 2018’s conference tracks into seven areas focused on industrial, commercial, and residential electrification.
Renewables are Cheaper than Existing Grid (Which is Cheaper than Renewables)
Central vs. Local Supply
One of the apparent problems with new renewable construction is that it raises rates, but, so would new fossil fuel construction.
Car Manufacturers Are Moving Fast
We’re Electrifying the Road
Utilities can use this direct relationship with every consumer and every corporation to deliver very compelling and credible messages about electric vehicles.
Electrification's Sonnet
Electrification 2018.
Driving the future, this year.
All the progress we have seen.
Must mean the vision is near.
Electrification 2018.
Heating, indoor ag, industry, mobility.
Moving to energy that is constant, cheap, clean.
Increasingly, the answer's electricity.
In 2018, Electrification.
It'll take us all to get there.
To stir the imagination.
To reach the vision we can share.
So, join me this August at Long Beach.
And hear, see innovation unleashed.
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).
Do Load Shapes of PV Customers Differ?
Implications for Rate Design
A load shape for PV customers that is materially different from the status quo residential customer may be sufficient grounds to implement a separate rate class.
A Utility Perspective
We’re Electrifying the Road
All those devices that people see in smart homes, smart cities, and distributed generation, need to be interconnected centrally to the regulated utility for them to work most economically and efficiently.