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Case Study: Texas Coop Leverages Enhanced Thermostats Controls to Capture Savings Amid Extreme Grid Pressures

image 3236 1 Learn how Farmers Electric is leveraging Google Nest thermostats’ enhanced control capabilities inside Shift to increase savings and maintain customer comfort amid growing grid pressures in Texas….

The Path From Utility Regulation to Implementation

commissioners often follow the directives they receive from their executives, but the Arizona Corporation Commission, for example, has explicit authority to launch a rulemaking of its own volition. (Curious about…

Why Utility Infrastructure Legislation Matters

…George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla, and other inventors were building early energy technologies, their companies competed in a free market. They could charge any price they wanted to attract customers and…

How Utilities Can Survive Distributed Energy Resources Powered Tech Disruption

…by Horizon Power and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), respectively. ComEd spent more than a decade researching, developing, and building the Bronzeville Community Microgrid. ComEd put its money (about $20 million) into…

What Is a Microgrid?

…predict that prices would also fall as technologies progressed. The recent interest in rooftop photovoltaic systems partially comes from the falling prices of more efficient solar panels. At the beginning…

Justice40, Equity, & Demand Flexibility

…capacity. Community Solar Community solar installations are an obvious example of investing in renewable energies. As an investment in photovoltaic solar installations, community solar directly benefits LMI communities. Program participants…

Seeking & Amplifying Underrepresented Voices for Energy Equity

…with community-based organizations (CBOs) that represent these populations. It’s really important to reach underrepresented communities in settings that are comfortable for them–online calls with slides and utility jargon will likely…

How Server Farms, Bitcoin Mining, & NFTs Challenge the Grid

…Require? Individually, a typical laptop uses about 0.05 kWh of power per day, an insignificant demand compared to the needs of a community, commercial properties, or industry. That escalates quickly…

The Path From a Bill to a Utility Regulation

Where does utility regulation come from? This is about the birds (policymakers) and the bees (commissioners) that bring utility regulation into the world. It’s a two-part series that focuses first…

What is Community Solar?

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Dr. Sanya Carley on Energy Justice, Equity, and Rate Design

…on disadvantaged communities from an employment perspective, for example, which communities might lose employment due to moving toward cleaner technologies. We’re working on a major project right now on the…

What Demand Response & Customer Service Have In Common

…utility companies. Practically every industry faces the same challenge. Consumer-facing businesses know that satisfied customers spend more than twice as much money as unhappy customers. Utility companies aren’t committed to…