Electricity
Empowering Utilities to Participate in the Clean-Energy Transition – Part 2
This is the second blog in a three-part series. The first blog, Renewable Heating in Juneau, Alaska, is available here. One of the central challenges in transitioning to a more distributed and decarbonized energy grid is supporting utilities to actively engage and lead by example and innovation, rather than…
The Power of Agreement
This past year set a new record for total capacity of announced corporate renewable energy (RE) purchases. This unprecedented demand has been met with robust supply from renewable energy project developers as well as from utilities, which have demonstrated their willingness to work with these buyers in finding new solutions…
Twas a Busy December: Reflections on the Energy Transition
Twas a busy December, and all through the grid, Transformers were quietly buzzing amid The transition affecting the industry whole And spreading quite fast through each wire and pole. On the bulk power system and below the substation, Leaders moved quickly and drove innovation. Upstarts…
Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement in China
The past year has been an exciting time for corporate renewable energy procurement in China. The Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) released three drafts of a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy for comment and intends to implement this policy on January 1, 2019. Concurrently, an increasing number of companies…
RMI Playbook Provides Roadmap to a Cleaner, More Cost-Effective Grid
US utilities continue to spend tens of billions of dollars annually on infrastructure, even as electricity sales growth flattens. Paying for these investments will fall to customers for years to come. However, non-wires solutions (NWS)—targeted applications of distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar photovoltaics and efficiency technologies—increasingly are a cost-effective…
