Electricity
Five Steps for Utilities to Foster Authentic Community Engagement
This article offers five steps regulators can direct utilities to take to build beneficial relationships with their communities.
Securitization in Action
As the cost of renewable energy continues to decline, over 12 gigawatts of coal capacity are set to retire in 2022 in the United States.
A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
Late in 2021, Southern Company, the giant utility headquartered in Atlanta, announced it would pursue the retirement or conversion of 15 coal-fired generation units at its power plants, totaling nearly 9,000 MW of capacity. One Southern-owned plant was conspicuously absent from those plans: the Red Hills Generating…
The Best Time to Plan Transmission Was 15 Years Ago. The Second-Best Time Is Now.
In this post, RMI demonstrates why cost-effective decarbonization requires the rapid build out the long-range transmission lines that can carry wind and solar power from where it is produced to where it is consumed.
Shining a Light on Utility Performance in Hawaii’s Clean Energy Transition
In June 2021, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved an extensive portfolio of performance mechanisms, including almost 40 metrics and scorecards that provide visibility into a wide scope of utility operations.
