Electricity
5 Ways to Sustain the Corporate Renewables Market
The year 2015 represented a major turning point for electricity generation in the United States. The country retired 14 GW of fossil-fueled generation. Meanwhile, it brought online 16.4 GW of carbon-free generation, with wind energy leading the mix at 8.5 GW of new installed capacity, according to BNEF’s Sustainable Energy in…
Top 10 Reasons Why Solar PV Has Reached Escape Velocity
With Nevada rolling back net metering and solar company stock prices falling, one might think the solar industry is in big trouble. Yet we believe the opposite is true. Here are the top ten reasons why...
Water Heaters: As Sexy as a Tesla?
This article was written by Margaret McCall, a former Senior Associate at RMI. Of all the new tech emerging on the energy landscape, water heaters seem an unlikely contender. Alongside battery players like Tesla, with its Model X and Powerwall, water heaters look like even more of a…
Location, Location, Location: DERs Find a Market Opportunity in Texas Through Locational Pricing
Much has been made about the potential of improving grid reliability and supporting a new era of distributed energy resource (DER) utilization via new pricing and grid integration business models. Locational pricing has been one of the pillars of this dialogue.
U.S. Wind Power Demand: Corporations Take the Lead
Non-utility customers accounted for 52 percent of last year’s total of over 4,000 MW of wind PPAs. Non-utility customers include some universities and city governments, but the vast majority are corporations.
