Distributed resources face tough challenges in ERCOT: panel Distributed energy resources face two categories of challenges — information and market design — for full integration in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, attendees of a regional trade association’s fall conference learned Tuesday. At a workshop associated with the Gulf Coast Power Association’s Fall Conference in … Continue reading Distributed resources face tough challenges in ERCOT: panel→
How Open Platforms And Demand Flexibility Offer Utilities New Revenue Opportunities The fastest-growing companies in America generate billions from platform business models that match suppliers directly with customers, free from the debt burden of ownership of physical assets. In spite of the success of such models, most electric utilities are heading in the opposite direction … Continue reading How Open Platforms And Demand Flexibility Offer Utilities New Revenue Opportunities→
Regulatory innovation required before DERs can succeed An astonishing array of innovative energy technologies — distributed generation, energy storage, microgrids, rooftop solar, and smart grids — is changing America’s electricity future. These technologies, collectively known as distributed energy resources, could deliver significant environmental and reliability benefits to the electric grid while diversifying sources of generation. … Continue reading Regulatory innovation required before DERs can succeed→
Texas Mulls the Market Power of Distributed Energy Resources This summer, Texas grid operator ERCOT started working on ideas for opening the state’s energy markets to distributed energy resources, by allowing the grid-scale aggregation of rooftop customer-sited generators. It’s a move similar to those being taken in solar-rich states like California and Hawaii, only with … Continue reading Texas Mulls the Market Power of Distributed Energy Resources→
An Industry First, Distributed Energy Storage System Dispatches Electricity to California Grid Marking a US power industry first, a “smart” network of distributed energy storage systems installed on-site on utility-customer premises successfully bid into and supplied electricity to California’s power grid via the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) real-time, day-to-day wholesale power market. Aggregated by … Continue reading An Industry First, Distributed Energy Storage System Dispatches Electricity to California Grid→
Changing Landscape For Electric Utilities The centralized electric utility industry is facing an unprecedented threat in the form of distributed generation. While utilities across the U.S. have aggressively campaigned against the distributed generation industry, this strategy may ultimately backfire. Despite the billions of dollars that the electric utilities possess, their attempts to suppress the distributed … Continue reading Changing Landscape For Electric Utilities→
New rules for new grid technologies An astonishing array of innovative energy technologies – distributed generation, energy storage, microgrids, rooftop solar, and smart grids – is transforming America’s electricity future. These technologies, collectively known as distributed energy resources, could deliver significant environmental and reliability benefits to the electric grid while diversifying sources of generation. Given … Continue reading New rules for new #grid_technologies→
California’s plan to let solar panels Voltron together into a “virtual power plant” …..On every building, there’s an energy meter that tracks how much electricity the building is using. For the last century, utilities neither knew nor particularly cared what went on “behind the meter,” which generally consisted of dumb, energy-consuming appliances like refrigerators and … Continue reading California’s plan to let solar panels Voltron together into a “virtual power plant”→
California Dreamin’ of Distributed Energy Resources, as Utilities File Plans In many ways, California is a special case. With an economy about the same size of Canada’s ($2.3 trillion in 2014) and a population of more than 38 million (roughly one in eight Americans is a Californian), California’s energy policies affect huge numbers of people … Continue reading California Dreamin’ of Distributed Energy Resources, as Utilities File Plans→
CAISO Takes Step to Allow Distributed Energy Resources to Compete in Wholesale Energy Markets On June 10, 2015, the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) released a draft final proposal (the “Expanded Metering and Telemetry Options Phase 2, Distributed Energy Resource Provider”) that, if finalized, would represent an initial step towards a regulatory structure that would … Continue reading CAISO Takes Step to Allow Distributed Energy Resources to Compete in Wholesale Energy Markets→
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