Why Electricity Should Be More Expensive
We don’t pay enough for electricity in the United States, and it’s hurting us. U.S. utilities do not have the money or the incentive to...
Alleviating Pain in a Stressed Distribution Grid
Despite regular workouts, my shoulder is now impinged, and I’m feeling some acute pain. My physical therapist attributes this to stress,...
The Distribution System Operator Transition
Because lighting was the primary thing for which people needed electricity, many once considered their electric bill “the light bill.” ...
The ‘Time Value of Resilience’
We think about reliability as an energy system’s everyday ability to avoid outages and about resilience as an energy system’s ability to...
What Regulators Need to Know About Microgrids
It’s been here for years: The hackneyed opening to an energy conference presentation where the speaker tells us the industry can’t agree...
With Divergence Abound, How Should We Navigate U.S. Energy Policy?
In the 1980s, our national energy policy was fairly straightforward. Utilities owned transmission and distribution assets, creating a...
Independent Power Producers are Changing the Power Industry
In the global power industry, renewable energy continues to emerge strongly, allowing new entrants to compete against larger, established...
When the Lights Go Out: The C&I Dilemma
The U.S. Energy Information Administration tells us business and industrial customers use more than 60 percent of the electricity ...