Tag: distributed energy resources

January 24, 2022

Utilities have long relied on demand response programs to incentivize customers to reduce their energy usage during times of high demand. In the past, utilities focused demand response programs almost exclusively on commercial and industrial customers who could reduce their […]

October 23, 2020

Utilities are pushing for a bigger role in integrating distributed energy resources (DER) in their service territories, saying their ownership would benefit customers. They also see economic opportunity and other advantages in the flexibility of DER, which is becoming vital […]

December 11, 2019

It isn’t easy to transform a century’s worth of electricity infrastructure from the ground up, particularly in the face of climate-change-induced firestorms. In looking back at 2019’s most important developments on the grid edge — GTM’s term for the interface […]

September 11, 2019

Within a decade, there may be more distributed energy resources (DER) coming onto distribution systems than any utility control room can manage. An autonomous energy grid (AEG) could optimize those high levels of DER for the benefit of power system […]

March 13, 2018

Rising penetrations of energy efficiency (EE) and other distributed energy resources (DER) are adding to the downward pressure on utility revenues by allowing customers to generate their own electricity or reduce their usage. Utilities find themselves caught between their customers’ […]

December 26, 2017

When Florida Gov. Rick Scott told residents “you need to go right now,” as Hurricane Irma barreled toward the state, many were able to jump in their cars and leave. An estimated 3 million people took to the highways, creating […]

July 11, 2016

Last week, New York’s six investor-owned utilities submitted five-year plans to add distributed energy resources (DERs) to the electric grid, EnergyWire reported. The plans proposed ways to modernize the grid without a complete grid overhaul, instead using efficiency, storage and […]