EPRI's New President Talks Electrification
Electrification 2020 Approaches
Electrification 2018 was awesome. Electrification 2020 promises to take it to the nth power.
Law & Lawyers
Electrify Everything?
Heat and Light in Deep Decarbonization Policies
This article attempts to highlight some of the logical disconnects and omissions in the current electrification debate. The author has no conflict of interest in this analysis and is strongly supportive of deep decarbonization policies.
Grid Modernization
State Policies
The Energy Supply Task Force is most relevant to utilities and Commissions given that legislators establish the parameters within which PUCs and utilities operate.
Curing the Analytical Bias
Replacing Discount Rate Driven NPV with IRR Analysis
NPV analysis relies on the selected discount rate. The selected discount rate can affect the outcome of the analysis. Thus, the introduction of a new metric; the differential internal rate of return (DIRR), and its expected value are discussed.
Broader Innovation Insights
Engaging Market Collaborators
Third-party collaboration relationships should be designed to provide benefits to customers, such as tangible advantages that enhance business choices about energy resources or fit the needs for energy awareness at the premise.
Picture Energy: Moody's Breakfast Briefing at EEI Financial Conference
November 11
Sessions featured Moody’s take on the cybersecurity risks utilities face, the California wildfires challenge for California utilities, and utility rates of return in an era of low and possibly negative interest rates.
What Hawaii Tells Us
Status Quo to Status Whoa
In the event of a catastrophic typhoon, so much of Hawaii's critical infrastructure is situated at sea level. The status quo is therefore risky to stick with.
Federal Stimulus
Time to Bring Out the Secret Sauce Again?
Smartening the grid over the last decade-plus has been a great achievement. And one that we owe in large part to the stimulating effect of the ARRA.
Visiting Hawaiian Electric
Unique Renewable Goals
Perhaps the highest of the high points of visiting Hawaiian Electric and Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission was when Commission chair Jay Griffin announced during the pre-hearing conference we attended that "the Mitnicks" of Public Utilities Fortnightly were sitting in, as welcome guests of the Commission. (One Mitnick had flown in from Washington, D.C., the other from Tokyo.) Or perhaps when we watched the moving Hawaiian blessing of the West Loch Solar Project of Hawaiian Electric and the U.S. Navy.
Hawaiian Electric: Alan Oshima
CEO
“Ninety-five percent of Hawaii’s electricity comes from our company.”