This was a buzzworthy week in the utility industry.
The Obama administration's report on grid resiliency made waves early on while the official trailer to an anti-smart meter documentary got a lot of attention.
For those stories and more, take a look below at Utility Dive's most read news of the week:
- Electric vehicle integration: 6 best practices for utilities: Southern California Edison is preparing for 350,000 EVs in its territory by 2020—are you?
- The anti-smart meter movement now has a movie: It's called "Take Back Your Power." Here's the trailer.
- Making the case for grid investment: 6 insights from the White House's new report: On Monday, the Executive Office of the President issued a report titled "Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages." Here's what you need to know.
- Are Texas utilities charging ‘money for nothing’?: Unusual fee structures have increasingly become the hallmark of many retail electricity companies in Texas.
- Alabama Power profits battle takes turn for the worse: A private investigator, a website hacking and a fake environmental protest have sparked allegations of dirty politics.
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