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Grid Optimization 154
Your Guide to the Bitter Debate Over 100% Renewable Energy

Your Guide to the Bitter Debate Over 100% Renewable Energy

On this week’s Energy Gang podcast: A review of the ongoing dispute over Mark Jacobson’s modeling of a renewables-only energy system.

by Stephen Lacey
Demand Response 1
Enel to Buy EnerNOC for $250M, in Bid for Demand Response and Energy Software Market Share

Enel to Buy EnerNOC for $250M, in Bid for Demand Response and Energy Software Market Share

The last publicly traded U.S. demand response company standing is going private.

by Jeff St. John
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PJM’s Market Changes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for Green Energy and Demand Response

PJM’s Market Changes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for Green Energy and Demand Response

The Mid-Atlantic grid operator just won a court case to keep capacity performance rules that hurt clean energy. Will carbon pricing and market reforms help make up for it?

by Jeff St. John
Energy Storage 40
Mind the Storage Gap: How Much Flexibility Do We Need for a High-Renewables Grid?
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Mind the Storage Gap: How Much Flexibility Do We Need for a High-Renewables Grid?

The Climate Policy Initiative quantifies the flexibility needs and costs in 80- to 100-percent-renewables scenarios.

by Brendan Pierpont
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Energy Storage 26
New Market Rules Destroyed the Economics of Storage in PJM. What Happened?

New Market Rules Destroyed the Economics of Storage in PJM. What Happened?

On this week’s Interchange podcast: What changes to frequency regulation signals mean for energy storage developers.

by Stephen Lacey
Solar-Plus-Storage 3
Austin Energy Seeks to Boost Value With a United Fleet of Solar and Storage

Austin Energy Seeks to Boost Value With a United Fleet of Solar and Storage

The pilot will be carried out at scale across the city, serving real operational needs.

by Julian Spector
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A Sneak Peek of The Energy Gang’s Live Podcast in San Jose

A Sneak Peek of The Energy Gang’s Live Podcast in San Jose

We’re debating the most important energy tech and market issues of our time at Grid Edge World Forum. Oh, and giving listeners a major conference discount.

by Stephen Lacey
Policy 80
No, Cities Are Not Actually Leading on Climate. Enough With the Mindless Cheerleading
Industry Perspective

No, Cities Are Not Actually Leading on Climate. Enough With the Mindless Cheerleading

Sam Brooks, a former director for the D.C. government’s energy division, examines the “cities are leading on climate” myth.

by Sam Brooks
PV, EV, & Storage 1
Cleantech Venture Capital: Home Sensors, Energy Islands, and Condo EV Charging

Cleantech Venture Capital: Home Sensors, Energy Islands, and Condo EV Charging

Notion, Pika Energy, and EverCharge raise money for grid edge technology.

by Jeff St. John
Electric Vehicles 4
BMW and PG&E Prove Electric Vehicles Can Be a Valuable Grid Resource

BMW and PG&E Prove Electric Vehicles Can Be a Valuable Grid Resource

Nearly 100 plug-in cars and a stack of second-life EV batteries successfully responded to dozens of demand response calls.

by Julia Pyper
Grid Optimization 1164
100% Renewables Plan Has ‘Significant Shortcomings,’ Say Climate and Energy Experts

100% Renewables Plan Has ‘Significant Shortcomings,’ Say Climate and Energy Experts

A new study calls out the assumptions in a leading renewable energy roadmap developed by Mark Jacobson.

by Julian Spector
Markets & Policy 16
Nevada Governor Kills Renewable Energy, Community Solar Bills With Deregulation Pending

Nevada Governor Kills Renewable Energy, Community Solar Bills With Deregulation Pending

Sandoval said adopting the legislation was “premature,” echoing concerns from the state’s powerful casino lobby group.

by Julia Pyper
Grid Optimization 14
Countries With the Most Wind and Solar Have 10 Times Fewer Outages Than America

Countries With the Most Wind and Solar Have 10 Times Fewer Outages Than America

Top California energy and grid regulators call the premise for Secretary Perry’s coming baseload study “nonsense.”

by Stephen Lacey
People 0
Energy Jobs: Enphase Diaspora, PG&E CEO, EEI Brass, National Grid
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Energy Jobs: Enphase Diaspora, PG&E CEO, EEI Brass, National Grid

Executive and boardroom moves in cleantech, utilities, energy and venture capital.

by Eric Wesoff
Grid Edge Spotlight: How California Is Bridging the Transmission-Distribution Divide
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Grid Edge Spotlight: How California Is Bridging the Transmission-Distribution Divide

California needs to figure out how distributed energy works, both on local circuits and in statewide energy markets. Here’s what utilities and CAISO have been doing about it.

by Jeff St. John |
Solar-Plus-Storage 6
Nevada’s New Solar Law Is About Much More Than Net Metering

Nevada’s New Solar Law Is About Much More Than Net Metering

Jon Wellinghoff, former Tesla policy lead, says the guaranteed right to self-generate electricity makes net metering a moot point.

by Julia Pyper
Utilities 16
On the Minds of Utility Execs: Digital Grids, Artificial Intelligence, Solar and Phasing Out Coal

On the Minds of Utility Execs: Digital Grids, Artificial Intelligence, Solar and Phasing Out Coal

On this week’s Interchange podcast, interviews with top figures in the utility business about the greatest challenges they face.

by Stephen Lacey
Electric Vehicles 416
No, Tesla Batteries Are Not a Global-Warming Disaster
Industry Perspective

No, Tesla Batteries Are Not a Global-Warming Disaster

But we should probably think about the global supply chain for battery storage and electric vehicles.

by Ben Gaddy
All the Cool Kids Really Are Getting Into Storage, and We’ve Got Data to Prove It
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All the Cool Kids Really Are Getting Into Storage, and We’ve Got Data to Prove It

Plus: PJM better watch its back, GE’s experiment-turned-global-storage-play, and how to double storage revenue in a year.

by Julian Spector |
Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 8
Green Mountain Power’s Latest Distributed Energy Play: Smart Water Heaters for 99 Cents a Month

Green Mountain Power’s Latest Distributed Energy Play: Smart Water Heaters for 99 Cents a Month

Aquanta’s water heater tech will serve as a utility access point to virtual energy storage.

by Jeff St. John
Coal Generation Makes the US Power Grid Less Diverse
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Coal Generation Makes the US Power Grid Less Diverse

The decline of coal and the rise of gas, wind, solar and efficiency are positive developments.

by Bentham Paulos |
Solar 13
Renewables Are Expected to Dominate Global Power Generation by 2040

Renewables Are Expected to Dominate Global Power Generation by 2040

And attract more than $7 trillion in the process, Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts.

by Julian Spector
Corporate Sustainability 1
Where and How to Develop Clean Energy Projects for Corporate Customers

Where and How to Develop Clean Energy Projects for Corporate Customers

Rocky Mountain Institute launches a new software platform to promote corporate procurements and previews the C&I track at Grid Edge World Forum later this month.

by Julia Pyper
PV Modules 22
The Top Solar Manufacturers Are Not Necessarily Making the Highest-Quality Modules

The Top Solar Manufacturers Are Not Necessarily Making the Highest-Quality Modules

Can PV module manufacturers maintain reliability as prices tumble? Takeaways from the 2017 PV module reliability scorecard report.

by Eric Wesoff
Energy Storage 3
Canada’s Biggest Energy Storage Project Will Be On-Line in a Few Months

Canada’s Biggest Energy Storage Project Will Be On-Line in a Few Months

Applying energy storage to frequency regulation, voltage control and reactive power support.

by Eric Wesoff