Under pressure: Utilities make distributed energy moves
Utilities are facing unprecedented challenges to their traditional business models. A growing number of utility customers in the U.S. are selling electricity generated by distributed energy resources (DER) like rooftop solar back to their utility…
The Rise of the Personal Power Plant
Smart and agile power systems will let every home and business generate, store, and share electricity Photo: Adam Voorhes; Prop Stylist: Robin Finlay At first glance, downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, looks like a sweet anachronism….
Majority of utilities preparing for disruptive forces
Utilities are largely accepting of an energy future characterized by increasingly distributed forms of energy generation and storage, and are taking action to ready themselves and shape the outcomes. That is according to DNV GL…
A New Architecture for Distributed Energy Management
It is proposed that the utility be put at the center of the distributed energy equation and manage the output of all the distributed energy in its territory. The key to this approach is to…
How New York is reinventing the electric utility
State PSC: ‘Distributed System Platform Providers’ are the future Since the 1920s, utility regulation has helped provide the U.S. with “universal access” to electricity, Jim Rogers, former CEO of Duke Energy, recently noted. Utilities were…
Distributed energy threatening utilities
The rise in distributed energy in the United States threatens the business model upon which the power and utility sector has been built, according to Ernst & Young (EY). The power and utility industry must…
Telecommunications Needs for Distributed Generation
The best policy in distribution planning is to anticipate telecommunications requirements and plan comprehensively. The costs of not doing so can include installation of incompatible or redundant systems, an inability to scale systems up and…
Integrating Distributed Energy Resources into Wholesale Markets and Grid Operations
Distributed Energy Resources (DER) encompasses distributed generation including combined heat and power, wind and photovoltaic systems, demand response, energy storage, vehicle-to-grid systems and microgrid. DER will have impacts on system operations and energy markets, which…
