Dive Summary:
- Tuesday, the San Antonio-based CPS Energy, hosted an invitation-only, closed-door forum uniting regional utilities, regulators, and technology firms to share frank talk on adopting new grid technologies and better ways of doing business.
- The Advanced Energy Executive Forum was launched last year when Hemant Taneja -- who co-founded Advanced Energy Economy with billionaire clean energy activist Tom Steyer, and Dr. Richard Lester of MIT's Industrial Performance Center – set out to remove the structural, financial, regulatory, and cultural obstacles to a “prosperous world that runs on secure, clean and affordable power.”
- CPS Energy, the largest municipally-owned electric and gas utility in the U.S, is the leading solar producer in Texas. Other forum attendees include: OGE Energy, First Solar, Silver Spring Networks, Landis+Gyr, Green Energy Corp., C3 Energy, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) -- in addition to PSEG Energy Holdings, Northeast Utilities, CPS Energy, NRG Energy, NextEra Energy Resources, CLEAResult, EnerNOC, Gridco Systems, SustainX, Viridity Energy, and California ISO.
From the article:
... “Distributed generation and technologies like demand response and microgrids need not cut into the revenue streams of utilities, Beneby said; they just have to be marketed the right way.” ...
