Startup Introduces New Climate Change Tool For Rural Electric Cooperatives
Rural electric cooperatives are among the utilities that can benefit from low cost, AI-enabled guidance on strategic responses to climate change.
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EV Demand Management Aggregation Is Commercializing
Four years ago, I published one of my first (absurdly arrogant) projection decades into the future, on three pathways for exploiting electric vehicle batteries for grid stability and cost efficiency. Today, it’s worth returning to it and seeing what’s happening in the space. The trigger for this was a conversation … [continued]
Nuclear Energy Is A Distraction From Climate Action — India Seminar Series
Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. With the … [continued]
Good Public Policy Key To Building A Renewable-Friendly Utility
So how do we get climate-friendly utilities? @xcelenergy is a leader among industry peers, but it was the visionary citizens and legislators in its markets who took the risk, made the map, built the roads, and gave them a push.
How Cities Can Fund Their 100% Renewable Ambitions
We’re inspired by the passage of the Portland Clean Energy Initiative this week, a ballot measure that will now provide $30 million per year for the city’s clean energy and climate work. Even better, the funds will target local energy deployment that lifts up low-income folks and people of color with energy savings and solar energy, as well as jobs installing these cost-saving measures.
3 Forces Fighting Local Renewable Energy & 3 Ways To Fight Back
Utility companies are undercutting state regulation with their legislative lobbyists. And utilities are also bringing their monopoly market power to bear in previously competitive markets.
We’ll detail examples of each of these three disturbing trends, and ways to fight back.
Could A 40-Year-Old Law Let More Customers “Exit” The Grid?
As state regulators restricted the ability of home and business owners in Nevada to receive sufficient compensation for solar on their rooftops, some large companies started looking towards other options.
Video: The Shocking Impact of Boring Energy Policy — CommonBound 2016 Conference
On July 9th, John Farrell, Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative, spoke to a group at the CommonBound 2016 Conference. The conference brought hundreds of leaders together to share “visionary strategies for achieving deep systemic change” in areas such as energy policy and economic justice.
Video: Choices Within Monopoly — A Grid Of The Future Conversation With Jon Wellinghoff
In November 2015, Jon Wellinghoff, former chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, spoke to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission about the grid of the future. In particular, he addressed the issue of giving customers meaningful choices within a monopoly grid model, present in Minnesota and 34 other states.
Competition & Freedom At Stake — Episode 37 Of Local Energy Rules Podcast
Incentives designed to make rooftop solar feasible for a wider range of consumers are under attack nationwide, threatening new solar development as well as the consumers that already have rooftop panels. The staunchest opponents? Utilities which say, despite a growing body of research to the contrary, that rooftop solar hurts other ratepayers and their bottom lines.
