Utilities and their customers are learning how their cooperation can provide mutual benefits by using the flexibility of distributed energy resources (DER) to cost-effectively balance the dynamics of the new […]
Utilities beginning to see the load impacts of COVID-19 as economic shutdown widens
It has been less than a week since states and major cities began instituting quarantines along with stay-home and shelter-in-place directives to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The full impacts […]
2020 Outlook: Utilities will be pushed to further embrace distributed energy resources
The 2010s saw the concept of the “utility death spiral” — the idea that improvements in distributed technology like rooftop solar and behind-the-meter battery (BTM) storage will make the electric […]