Clash of Titans: Regulators vs. Markets
Addressing Costs Imposed on the Grid
An energy-only market could not effectively provide ancillary services, as these are externalities. A similar situation has now arisen in the capacity market.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Picture Energy: NARUC Summer Meeting in Scottsdale
NARUC President Jack Betkoski and NARUC staff packed the schedule.
EPRI's Electrification 2018 Conference
The Essence
With over 1,700 attendees, powerful speakers, and an amazing exhibition hall chock full of the latest technology, it was indeed special.
A Day (Two Really) at the Georgia PSC
Sixteen Conversations
Interviews with Chair Bubba McDonald, Commissioners Chuck Eaton, Tim Echols, Doug Everett, and Tricia Pridemore, and 22 staff members.
Georgia PSC: Bubba McDonald
Chair
"When it comes down to being stern and calling it like it is, I’m guilty. But I’ll go the extra mile for anybody that’s trying to do right."