Tag: DECARBONIZATION

November 30, 2023

U.S. utilities are at an interesting inflection point. Governmental and consumer pressure to decarbonize has propelled companies to accelerate their sustainability initiatives and introduce new business models. Although global warming is threatening all companies, the electric utility industry is arguably […]

July 17, 2023

Global trends toward clean energy and increasing public calls for decarbonization have created an extremely complex situation for utility companies. This level of change requires significant capital investment that will translate to rate increases. However, in our current economic circumstances, […]

January 30, 2023

Over the past several years, we’ve seen a brave new utility model emerge. Renewables, smart meters, distributed energy resources (DERs), and so much more have had a profound impact on utilities and are fundamental to achieving our decarbonization goals. This […]

December 5, 2022

More extreme weather, coupled with increasing threats of cyber and other attacks, have put a spotlight on reliability and resiliency across the U.S. power sector. Meanwhile, the enactment earlier this year of the Inflation Reduction Act and its $369 billion […]

October 18, 2022

The U.S. electric utility sector is again rewarding CEOs with larger compensation packages, after a slight dip in 2020, and the pay gap with median employees is increasing, according to a Utility Dive analysis of nearly 40 major investor-owned utilities […]

October 4, 2022

One of the key topics discussed during this year’s ISWA World Congress was Waste-to-Energy (WtE) and the new technologies enabling the sector to exist in a circular economy. The brand new WtE White Book on Technologies for WtE published by […]

September 7, 2022

The Biden administration has laid out a comprehensive roadmap to help five energy-intensive manufacturing sectors reduce their fuel- and power-related carbon emissions and achieve net-zero by 2050. The pathways proposed for the iron and steel, cement and concrete, food and […]

August 10, 2022

California’s current gas rules offer a variety of subsidies to a customer, builder or developer who wants to connect to the gas utility system – while the total cost of the gas line extension is initially paid by the applicant, […]

March 24, 2022

The U.S. power sector’s success since 2005 in reducing carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) was slowed in 2021 as market factors now being reproduced by the war in Ukraine forced more use of coal. As the U.S. economy recovered from the […]

February 10, 2022

All market indicators show that distributed energy resources (DERs) boom will continue into this year and beyond. In fact, a recent Frost & Sullivan report states the global annual investments in DERs will increase by 75% by 2030. We’ve seen […]

January 31, 2022

Decarbonization goals driving the growth of renewable generation along with customer demand for distributed energy resources (DER) are reshaping what electric utilities can be. For the emerging utility of the future, the flexibility of DER will protect reliability and lower […]

January 20, 2022

A power plant in Tennessee is the site of a project using carbon dioxide (CO2) to help manufacture carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be used in a variety of products from wind turbine blades to cellphone batteries to lightweight bicycle […]

October 22, 2021

The grid must accommodate more inverter-based generation and adequately handle the bi-directional flow of electricity, but it must also apply alternative grid configurations and coordinate planning and operations across multiple participants and jurisdictions. That’s the vision Michael Pesin, deputy assistant […]

October 11, 2021

Decarbonization is a topic that presents dramatic long-term change for electric utilities. The goal to achieve significant GHG emissions reduction over a 10- to 30-year horizon also requires utility leaders to take a portfolio-based view of GHG reduction. Early efforts […]

September 13, 2021

New York State’s power line push comes as the federal government focuses on boosting transmission capacity, both inside the country and with Canada, in order to connect with the growing solar, wind and energy storage projects needed to decarbonize the […]

August 30, 2021

Utilities are under more pressure than ever to increase energy efficiency, to help meet steep decarbonization targets. This requires utilities to expand how they pursue energy savings. Traditionally, utilities have satisfied energy efficiency mandates mainly via behind-the-meter measures, delivered through […]

February 15, 2021

The economic, environmental and public health challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis in 2020 continue unabated as we usher in a new presidential administration. And yet utilities across the United States are expecting to spend more […]

February 21, 2020

Many natural gas utilities are currently developing strategic plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, or realize they will be asked to do so soon. Integrating renewable natural gas (RNG) is an important component of every utility’s plan to decarbonize, […]

November 19, 2019

A coalition of industry, power and oil and gas firms in the U.K. are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. Earlier this year, the U.K. […]

May 2, 2018

The solar industry weathered a particularly strange 2017, but is poised for global growth. If the right factors come together, solar power could provide 15 percent of the global electricity mix by the 2030s, rather than the business-as-usual rate of […]