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SCOTUS & the EPA: How Decarbonization Efforts Adds Value

…to reshape the utility industry. For example, the Public Utility Law Project of New York recently began pursuing compensatory requirements for customers who experience prolonged electric outages. Whether or not…

Portland General Electric Partners with Virtual Peaker on VPP Project

Portland General Electric (PGE) announced last week the approval of its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) project – a 525 battery program designed to provide grid benefits within its “Test Bed”…

Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) Should Top Utility Wish Lists Every Holiday Season

…What the Delloitte Study Found in 2019 When the utility leaders taking the survey were asked what digital technology capabilities power companies will be exploring in the next one to…

Why Grid Operators Are Skeptical of Distributed Energy Resources (& Why They Shouldn’t Be Now)

…overwhelmed interconnection queue, this leaves grid operators vulnerable to energy insecurity. Fortunately, distributed energy resources (DERs) provide an opportunity for grid operators to better manage demand by using existing, community…

Happy Earth Day: 3 Ways To A More Sustainable Future

…help. You will not be able to stop the rising water levels, but you can make an impact on your local community. Composting is one way to cut down on…

Renewable Energy Innovation Is for Every Utility

…than six times that of its closest competitor. The addition of a new solar-plus-storage facility, combined with its Tesla facility, allows the Hawaiian coop to meet 40% of peak evening…

Winter Demand Response, Virtual Power Plants, & Grid-Edge DERMS

…year in the last decade was successively the hottest temperatures ever recorded, temperature extremes are driven by climate change. So what does this have to do with winter demand response?…

3 Use Cases For Demand Response

common uses for demand response? Let’s take a look. A Brief History of Demand Response Before examining how demand response can help utilities today, let’s look at where it started….

Driving Revenue & Customer Satisfaction in the Electric Vehicle Market

…areas with a particularly dense population of engaged and enrolled program participants, while running complementary or parallel demand flexibility programs elsewhere as needed. In this example, the total load shift…

The West Is on Fire: We Need To Adopt More Demand Flexibility Strategies

…the state’s climate-friendly advances—plus thousands of megawatts reduced through voluntary conservation by residents and businesses—helped reduce the load, it hasn’t been enough to prevent these drastic measures. For example, in…

Ani Backa, U.S. Director of Utilities, Regulatory, & Legislative Initiatives for sonnen, Talks DERs (1 of 3)

…the utility IRP/grid at large. Examples in Action An example here is the striking and concerning statistic from Con Ed when the company reported that more than 170 employees had…

Team Q&A: Chelsey Lawton – Office Manager/Assistant Controller

…Virtual Peaker has allowed me to spread my wings. While working with companies like Sargento and Harley Davidson I was able to adapt my skills in both the accounting side…