Veterans' Energy
Looking Forward to Veterans in Energy Forum
Veterans comprise 11% of the workforce in investor-owned energy companies and make up 22% of the nuclear workforce.
Law & Lawyers
Blockchain: Future of Renewable Trading?
Blocking and Tackling
The blockchain is a more secure method for recording transactions, because as a distributed ledger, it does not have a single centralized point of storage that can be hacked.
A Day (Two Actually) at the Florida PSC
Fifteen unique conversations
How the commission serves the public interest of Floridians through utility regulation.
Clarifying the Conflicts in Wholesale Market Design
Find Common Ground and Focus the Debate
Just as state policies are unlikely to return us to the seventies, those policies are unlikely to undermine the RTOs’ and ISOs’ abilities to perform their core operational tasks.
Florida PSC: Art Graham
Chair
“Our governor says there’s no reason why every single CEO wouldn’t want to bring his headquarters here to Florida.”
What Netflix and Amazon Pricing Tell Us about Rate Design’s Future
Alexa, Pull Up My Energy Service Subscription Plan!
If other industries are transitioning from a pay-per-use and volumetric model to a subscription model, why should utilities not consider this option as well?
Florida PSC: Julie Brown
Commissioner
“Customers want immediate restoration regardless of the magnitude of the storm.”
Accelerating Generation Changes Make Assuring Reliability More Complex
A NERC Perspective
Assuring the reliability of the bulk-power system in North America requires identifying challenges and formulating appropriate solutions to a rapidly evolving generation-resource mix.
As the Electric Reliability Organization, NERC is charged with assuring the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid. As such, NERC conducts annual, seasonal and special reliability assessments to identify and analyze trends or potential risks.
Florida PSC: Gary Clark
Commissioner
“Florida continues to be a leader by taking the right steps, cautiously, pragmatically, to balance consumer needs and costs with high growth, energy demand, fuel diversity.”
Value of the Grid in High-DER Future
New APPA Perspective
The cost to reproduce the benefits of the electric grid far outpace what most customers spend on electricity each month.