Regulation & Policy: Page 374
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Smart meters do not equal a smart grid
Meters look dumb when there is a problem somewhere back up the aging power infrastructure.
By Ron Gallagher • June 8, 2012 -
How the traditional regulatory process can inhibit grid modernization
A former regulator says the central issue is how utilities and regulators address innovation risk.
By Ron Gallagher • June 8, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineThe Energy Transition to Renewables
New policy and business actions are giving a significant boost to renewable energy in the U.S., but opposition is growing and grid interconnection, permitting, labor and other challenges remain.
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As deadline nears to seal a Duke-Progress deal, N.C. adds a new wrinkle
Legislation proposed in North Carolina would block the deal unless Progress coughs up $2 billion toward a public power agency's debt.
By Ron Gallagher • June 8, 2012 -
Data driving investment, scale in energy efficiency
New York City government got its agencies to shape up by putting the electric bills in their pockets.
By Ron Gallagher • June 7, 2012 -
Smart systems could cut energy use by up to 22%
A study says "intelligent efficiency" – looking at systems rather than devices – could chop demand 12 to 22%.
By Ron Gallagher • June 7, 2012 -
Unmanaged demand from EVs would mean a major problem for PJM
The head of the mid-Atlantic distribution manager says smart-grid direction is essential to handle millions of recharging cars and trucks.
By Ron Gallagher • June 7, 2012 -
Electric utility industry undergoing structural evolution
Black & Veatch's annual report notes that smart-grid data outpace companies' and customers' abilities to use them.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Residential survey shows household energy consumption continues downward
As the total residential use of energy remains even, more houses mean per-customer use is dropping.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Utility tests game-changing assessment technology
The goal of the PG&E pilot is to demonstrate how technology can support actions based on better energy information.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Tree-management lessons from October 2011 snow-storm
One issue investigators identified in a report just out was large, healthy trees falling onto lines from outside company rights of way.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
DOE’s SunShot initiative now focusing on creative finance
SunShot hopes to make photovoltaic systems cost-competitive by 2020.
By Ron Gallagher • June 5, 2012 -
Survey: 'Structural evolution' under way in electric utility industry
Black & Veatch says new technology and regulatory shifts are impacting all aspects of the electric industry.
By Ron Gallagher • June 4, 2012 -
Planning Faulted at TVA Watts Bar Nuke Project
The authority's inspector general laid the blame on deficiencies in project set-up and ineffective management oversight, and the authority said it agrees. It's asked the NRC for more time to finish.
By Ron Gallagher • June 4, 2012 -
Calif. issues new energy standards for construction, effective in 2014
The state Energy Commission's standards aim to reduce energy consumption in commercial and residential buildings.
By Ron Gallagher • June 1, 2012 -
The $100 Billion Question for the EPA
While EPA analyzes the impact of each rule individually, plant owners must consider the whole picture
By Ron Gallagher • May 31, 2012 -
Marin Energy Authority Says Rates Are Coming Closer to PG&E's
The one-county authority attributes the drop in its prices to a state decision reducing a fee that its customers must pay to PG&E.
By Ron Gallagher • May 30, 2012 -
Senate Confirms Two FERC Nominees, Head of EIA
John Norris will begin a full term this summer, and North Dakota's Tony Clark will join FERC.
By Ron Gallagher • May 30, 2012 -
California utilities net big DR budgets
Regulators say the companies need to keep up efforts to make demand response a habit.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
ERCOT's electric reserve on shaky ground
The reliability council predicts a shrinking margin of capacity over demand every year and a shortfall by 2022.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
NRC Finds Pilgrim Plant Safe; Renewal Preserves 650 Jobs
The Massachusetts facility's renewal process has gone on since 2006, the longet renewal on record.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
U.S. fish plan for Columbia River includes hydro power management
Wildlife management on the Columbia account for about 30% of the wholesale power costs of the Bonneville Power Administration.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
FERC Defers Air-Rule Role to EPA
Utilities that need more time to comply with mercury and toxics standards are being told to take their issues directly to the environmental agency.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
Obama picks an academic to be new NRC chair
George Mason University professor Allison M. Macfarlane served on a blue-ribbon panel charged with recommending steps to deal with nuclear-waste disposal.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Win for California solar: CPUC keeps net energy metering alive
A utilities commission decision on how to define a cap on the program is seen as favoring solar advocates over investor-owned utilities.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Calif. PUC says its greenhouse-gas control legislation can be a model nationally
The state is implementing a cap-and-trade system at the start of 2013.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012
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