Tag Archives: Grid Modernization

New York Looks to Encourage Increased Deployment of Distributed Energy Resources

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Amber Martin

A newly released staff report from the New York State Department of Public Service (NYDPS) proposes to increase the penetration of solar, wind, battery storage, and other consumer-driven technologies in New York through efforts to better quantify the value these … Continue reading →

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CNAS Recommends a First 100 Days Energy Agenda for Next President

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Jeff Bayne

With the 2016 U.S. election just two weeks from today, several organizations have released reports examining the energy-related issues confronting the next president.  Earlier this month the Nicholas Institute at Duke published a report on the energy and environmental issues … Continue reading →

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Brattle Group Surveys Consumer Advocates on Demand Charges

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Jeff Bayne

Recently, Ryan Hledik and Ahmad Faruqui of The Brattle Group published Competing Perspectives on Demand Charges: Survey of Consumer Advocates Identifies Areas of Agreement and Disagreement (originally published in Public Utilities Fortnightly). Traditionally, residential electricity rates have been flat, meaning … Continue reading →

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LBNL Releases Reports on Utility Planning for a Changing Grid

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Anjali Patel

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently released two reports related to utility planning efforts for future changes to the electric grid. The first, The Future of Electricity Resource Planning, is coauthored by Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3) and is … Continue reading →

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New NREL Study Examines Renewable Generation Integration in the Eastern Interconnection

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Amber Martin

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to examine the potential impacts that high penetrations of wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) may have on the Eastern Interconnection by evaluating the conditions system operators would … Continue reading →

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