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Deep DiveNorthern California's wildfire season is effectively over. What's next for PG&E?
While PG&E did not cause another catastrophic wildfire in Northern California this year, it still has to deal with risky infrastructure, the likelihood of prolonged power shut-offs and the specter of municipalization.
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Sponsored5 reasons utilities are switching to high-performance overhead conductors
High-performance conductors offer performance advantages that should no longer be ignored, and policy makers, regulators and project financiers are taking note.
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OpinionOutsourcing utility climate goals: Energy as a service reduces risk while increasing energy savings
A full set of service solutions with financing options will increasingly be required to address the portfolio needs of C&I customers, with energy storage, smart building analytics and controls as key enabling technologies, the author writes.
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Tesla's Australian virtual power plant propped up grid during coal outage
The company's virtual power plant of 50,000 houses is only 2% complete so far, but it proved its worth during a generator outage this fall.
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New York outlines new ways to compensate distributed solar users as it looks beyond net metering
The changes proposed by the staff of the New York Department of Public Service show a potential path forward for residential and small business rooftop solar users.
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Self-committing coal suppressing Southwest Power Pool prices by $2/MWh, market monitor concludes
Wind and natural gas dominate market-based dispatches in SPP, while coal was the main culprit distorting the market, consistent with clean energy groups' findings in other power markets.
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Southwest Power Pool registers Voltus as first demand response services provider
"We're eager to see how Voltus' technology and services will unlock not only the value of various types of demand response, but all types of distributed energy resources in the SPP footprint," the grid operator's COO said.
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Deep DiveRoad to 100: How Western water rights and local billionaires complicated Aspen's renewables path
Controversy over hydropower in the Mountain West politicized the city's 100% renewables goal, bringing in a wave of opposition.
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Deep DiveRoad to 100: How four cities are leading the renewables revolution
Utility Dive visited four U.S. cities powered by 100% renewables, getting local insights on the political will and economic drivers that got them there.
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Indianapolis Power & Light announces early retirement for 2 coal units, but NGOs eye bigger target
The utility said Monday it will retire units 1 and 2 at its St. Petersburg plant, but the Sierra Club is pushing for the closure of the much bigger units 3 and 4, noting Indianapolis' renewable energy goals.
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New Jersey lowers price utilities pay for solar as it phases out credit program
Regulators set up a "bridge" program as the state draws down its solar credits that cap the price utilities pay for solar power. Advocates fear those caps will hinder development.
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Buttigieg's McKinsey controversy draws attention to candidate's work on energy efficiency
All of the leading Democratic candidates for president have discussed efficiency improvements, but Mayor Pete Buttigieg had his name on a major study a decade ago.
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Dive Awards
The Utility Dive Awards for 2019
The annual awards highlight the biggest trends in innovation in the electric utility sector: from penciling out electrification efforts to pioneering new revenue streams for distributed resources.
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Dive Awards
Utility of the Year: Hawaiian Electric
The "bleeding edge" company is taking a multi-faceted approach to tackling key challenges in the utility sector, using a range of tools to achieve its objectives.
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Dive Awards
Policymaker of the Year: Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico
Prioritizing the state's transition away from fossil fuels triggered pushback, but clean energy and labor groups largely supported the administration's move.
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Dive Awards
Executive of the Year: Mary Powell, Green Mountain Power
Powell is leaving her post at the end of the year, but created a new playbook for the investor-owned utility to continue to prioritize customer choice.
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Dive Awards
Disruptor of the Year: Sunrun
The solar and storage developer has been pioneering new business models to increase aggregation of distributed resources.
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OpinionMinnesota pioneers integration of new interconnection standard expected to propel DERs
Integration of the IEEE standard will mean that distributed energy resources can automatically respond to certain grid conditions, enabling significantly higher penetrations on the grid, the author writes.
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PG&E reaches $13.5B settlement with wildfire victims, including Tubbs, Butte and Camp blazes
The settlement resolves claims related to several fires including the 2017 and 2018 wildfires that ravaged northern California and gives the utility a path to exit bankruptcy in summer 2020.
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Nevada regulators approve NV Energy plan for 1,190 MW solar, 590 MW storage
The utility received approval for three projects, including what it says will be one of the largest solar+storage facilities in the world.
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Xcel's proposed TOU rates could mean big peak demand savings for DER owning customers
The utility filed an advice letter with Colorado regulators earlier this month to make permanent a residential energy time-of-use rate, following a successful pilot program that concluded in July.
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Vineyard Wind wins 804 MW bid for offshore wind in Connecticut
The developer had submitted proposals to deliver up to 1,200 MW in the state.
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Solar developers, manufacturers clash on Trump tariff impacts as trade commission poised to reevaluate
Developers estimate 62,000 jobs and 10.5 GW of deployment will be lost through 2021 due to the tariffs. But more domestic manufacturers are now defending the policy.
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FPL's Turkey Point first US nuclear plant to get license out to 80 years
Federal regulators extended the approved lifespan of two of the Florida facility's units until 2052 and 2053.
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ERCOT sees brighter days ahead on system reserves despite rising peak demand
The grid operator for most of Texas says it is experiencing above-normal growth in peak electricity demand, but should head into next summer with sufficient resources to keep the lights on.
