All about the REV: How and why New York wants to develop distributed energy markets

Audrey Zibelman's vision: Taking deregulation to its logical conclusion. 

By Davide Savenije • March 3, 2015

Customers reduce use up to 10% in Hawaii behavioral DR pilot

A free mobile app called "Presence" could hold promise for utilities if it proves scalable. 

By Robert Walton • March 3, 2015

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Electricity Supply and Demand

After nearly two decades of flat demand, U.S. electricity consumption reached an all-time high in 2024 and is expected to continue rising. This trendline brings together the best of Utility Dive’s coverage of emerging trends in supply and demand and the decisions being made today that will impact the power system for years to come. 

By Utility Dive staff

Illinois budget crisis sets up controversy over efficiency funds

New Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to pull funds collected for energy efficiency into the state's general fund.

By Robert Walton • March 3, 2015

Trivedi on NY's REV order: Why the utility should not be the DSP

New York's REV is innovative, but regulators should not let utilities own and operate the Distributed System Platform (DSP), writes consultant Navneet Trivedi. 

By Navneet Trivedi • March 2, 2015

Coming of age: How utilities are trying to catch up with Uber and Amazon

Opower's new customer care offering help illustrate how the industry is changing and where utilities see opportunity.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 25, 2015

Why the future of electric vehicles depends on utilities, and vice versa

Utilities can build a new business model with EVs but the private sector and ratepayers will be watching.

By Herman K. Trabish • Feb. 20, 2015

Groups urge Supreme Court to take up FERC Order 745 appeal

Consumer and environmental advocates are urging the Supreme Court to take up an appeal of FERC 745.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 19, 2015

How ConEd is boosting demand management to save on grid upgrades

With a peak load in excess of 13,000 MW, Consolidated Edison is doing everything it can to stave off billions of dollars in investment.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 18, 2015

Elon Musk: Tesla home battery could be in production in 6 months

The announcement was a silver lining to a disappointing earnings call for investors.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 13, 2015

Why one electric co-op is offering their solar customers free water heaters

The utility has shifted 20% of its potential peak load by taking control of customers' water heaters.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 10, 2015

Con Edison offers summer DR program to commercial customers

The program also offers rebates for installing meters which measure electricity usage every 15 minutes.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 2, 2015

Miami Heat, NRG partner to install solar, push green energy

Sports stadiums are increasingly looking to add green power or energy efficiency measures, both to lower their carbon footprint and electricity bills as well as adding to the fan experience.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 29, 2015

Minnesota co-op bundles community solar, demand response programs

For $170, Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric members can buy into a community solar project and get a new water heater.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 29, 2015

How the home energy management market is reinventing itself

Though the market has lagged projections for years, two recent studies predict a billion-dollar boom for home energy management.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 28, 2015

KCP&L plans largest utility-owned electric vehicle charging network in U.S.

The Kansas City-based utility outlined plans for a network capable of supporting 10,000 electric vehicles.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 28, 2015

Supreme Court appeal on FERC Order 745 leaves demand response in limbo

It could be eight months or more before the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to hear an appeal of the case that gutted Order 745.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 21, 2015

Where the electric vehicle boom is happening and how utilities can take advantage

In the chicken-egg equation of what will drive the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles, states are offering increasing incentives for the constructive of charging stations.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 21, 2015

PJM files stop-gap demand response rules with FERC

The grid operator seeks to address confusion in the event the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of FERC Order 745.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 20, 2015

Obama admin. appeals to Supreme Court on FERC Order 745

FERC has the authority to regulate demand response in retail energy markets, the Justice Department says.

By Gavin Bade • Jan. 16, 2015

Demand Response in 2015: Connectivity, new rate structures will fuel innovation

As two-way control technology spreads, demand response may be used to control smaller batches of load.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 14, 2015

FERC: ISO-NE may integrate demand response into wholesale markets

In spite of regulatory uncertainty over demand response and FERC Order 745, regulators allows ISO New England to fully integrate demand response resources into its wholesale energy markets.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 14, 2015

Study: Consumers motivated by sustainability, not cash, to save energy

Researchers at UCLA show environmental benefits, not savings, push the most energy conservation.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 14, 2015

Where the energy storage expansion will happen first and why

The commercial-industrial space is the low hanging fruit for the emerging storage industry.

By Herman K. Trabish • Jan. 7, 2015

California Gov. Brown sets 50% renewable energy goal by 2030

In his inaugural address, Gov. Jerry Brown called for California to get half its power from renewables in 15 years.  

By Robert Walton • Jan. 6, 2015

PG&E, BMW partner on electric vehicle demand response pilot

The pilot also calls for construction of a large energy storage unit at the BMW Group Technology Office in Mountain View, Calif., using lithium-ion batteries once installed in MINI E demonstration vehicles.

By Robert Walton • Jan. 5, 2015