Charts: How will the Clean Power Plan stay affect the utility power mix transition?

Utilities will keep adding renewables and natural gas, but what happens to the Clean Power Plan could have a big effect on just how much of both are brought online in the coming years.

By Herman K. Trabish • March 8, 2016

After record year, U.S. energy storage forecasted to break 1 GW capacity mark in 2019

Energy storage installations were up 243% in 2015 compared with 2014, according to new GTM Research/Energy Storage Assoc. report.

By Peter Maloney • March 7, 2016

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Energy Storage

The proliferation of energy storage in everything from utility-scale batteries to electric vehicles is a driving force in the transition to a cleaner, more distributed power system. This trendline includes the best Utility Dive reporting on this dynamic sector.

By Utility Dive staff

AEP taps GE software for new distribution management system

As utilities shift to a future with more distributed assets on the grid, finding systems to manage them as one is paramount.

By Peter Maloney • March 4, 2016

As Xcel pushes non-wire alternatives, solar+storage pilot sparks utility ownership debate

Everyone loves that Xcel Minnesota is considering DERs instead of traditional infrastructure, but not that the utility wants to own them itself.

By Herman K. Trabish • March 3, 2016

Green Charge deploys storage in San Diego financed by savings from peak demand reduction

Green Charge Networks is applying its benefits-sharing financing model to offer 7.4 MWh of energy storage at no cost to the school district that will host it. 

By Peter Maloney • March 2, 2016

Long live the duck — and may he fly flat

In this guest post, Jim Lazar, senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project, offers new techniques to combat the dreaded Duck Curve

By Jim Lazar • March 2, 2016

To help build the 'smart city' utilities need to shed their legacy thinking

In the future, smart cities will have smart utilities. But a new report from Black & Veatch finds there's a long way to go, and the power industry is evolving slowly.

By Robert Walton • March 2, 2016

New York utilities seek non-wire alternatives in REV-inspired RFP

ConEdison and New York State Electric & Gas have each issued solicitations aimed at avoiding the need for new wires and old-style generation.

By Robert Walton • March 2, 2016

The sector favorite: Storage tops utility tech picks for second year running

Utility Dive's third annual survey of electric utility professionals shows even greater interest in energy storage.

By Peter Maloney • March 1, 2016

France's EDF will offer solar+storage product via US-based subsidiary

The giant French utility announced plans to enter the residential solar and storage market in an ribbon-cutting for a utility-scale battery project in the PJM region.

By Peter Maloney • March 1, 2016

Hawaiian Electric gears up to test EV charging station with storage

Hawaiian Electric is testing a fast charging EV station that incorporates energy storge.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 26, 2016

Sunvault-Edison Power solar+storage project in Delaware could use graphene technology

A small solar + storge project in Delaware is vying to be one of the first to incorporate graphene storage technology.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 25, 2016

German green utility LichtBlick eyes US expansion for DERMS offering

LichtBlick of Germany is expanding its DERMS tools into the residential market, including the United States.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 24, 2016

'A battery in every basement': How the lowly water heater could power the smart grid

A new coalition of co-ops, environmentalists and demand response is seeking to harness the power of a different sort of energy storage. 

By Robert Walton • Feb. 23, 2016

Partnering for success: Utilities leverage innovative vendor relationships at the grid edge

From smart meters to distribution automation and residential storage, opportunities abound for utilities bold enough to reach out to innovative third parties. 

By Herman K. Trabish • Feb. 23, 2016

JuiceBox enters residential storage fray with new solar partnerships

The most recent solar+storage partnership combines JuiceBox and Simmitri, a solar designer and installer, following a similar deal inked in January. 

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 23, 2016

First do no harm: Michigan researchers publish storage sustainability guidelines

University of Michigan researchers publish guidelines for the sustainble use of energy storage systems.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 22, 2016

New York needs 4 GW of storage by 2030 to meet REV goals, advocacy group says

Advocacy and advisory group NY-BEST also calls for standardized safety requirements, locational pricing in new report. 

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 19, 2016

Beyond net metering: How location can help put a value on DERs

Finding the precise locational value of distributed energy resources is key to ongoing and future value-of-solar proceedings, a report said. 

By Herman K. Trabish • Feb. 18, 2016

SolarCity selects Tesla batteries for Kauai solar+storage project

SolarCity, as widely expected, picked Tesla to suppy the batteries for its Kauai solar-plus-storage project, which it says will be the first fully-dispatchable solar PV project in the nation.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 18, 2016

That's the brakes: Utilizing stored energy from public transit for grid services

The Philadelphia region transit system, with industry partners, is pioneering a financial model for making regenerative braking economic.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 16, 2016

SoCal Edison to invest up to $2.5B to integrate DERs over 5-year span

Integrating distributed energy resources into the distribution network is not going to be cheap. Southern California Edison is preparing to spend up to $2.5 billion, including $500 million on new software, to prepare its grid for DERs over a five-year span.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 12, 2016

Sunverge Energy to roll out solar management system

Sunverge Energy says its next generation solar integration system will be available this summer.

By Peter Maloney • Feb. 11, 2016

DistribuTECH 2016: Increasingly at home with DERs, utilities shift focus to controlling them on the grid

The big question for utilities in 2016 isn’t whether they will be able to integrate DERs — it’s how they will be able to manage them all on the grid.

By Gavin Bade • Feb. 11, 2016

Navigant: Lithium-ion leads new storage systems

More than 85% of energy storage systems installed last year used lithium-ion batteries, according to a new report from Navigant Research.

By Robert Walton • Feb. 10, 2016