Tag: Energy efficiency

April 3, 2024

Driven by an ever-expanding universe of connected devices and more powerful smartphones, mobile data traffic is continuing to surge, meaning the stakes are higher than ever when it comes to providing high-performing 5G networks. For years, the “best network” was […]

October 24, 2023

Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that it achieved commercial operation at its landfill gas to renewable natural gas plant at Republic Services’ Benson Valley Landfill in Frankfort, Kentucky. […]

May 4, 2023

The PSC approved changes to the efficiency goal-setting process in March, but advocates subsequently requested Tuesday’s hearing to ask commissioners to consider modernizing the rules ahead of next year’s work to set new utility energy savings targets. The PSC “missed […]

December 29, 2022

Almost all distribution transformers produced or imported into the U.S. under a new energy efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) could require amorphous steel cores starting in 2027. The measure, unveiled as industry grapples with a crippling […]

September 13, 2021

The project will focus on large heat pumps in energy-intensive industries and gas expanders in utilities by testing these technologies at real scale. The aim is to reuse the heat released heat into the atmosphere by industry, a powerful energy […]

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 […]

May 6, 2021

A lot of energy is consumed by buildings. In fact, the Alliance to Save Energy, a nonprofit energy efficiency advocacy group, says buildings account for about 40% of all U.S. energy consumption and a similar proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. […]

April 23, 2021

Electrification is a key strategy to eliminating carbon emissions, but it also means utilities will need to add generation and address shifting load profiles. The collapse of the Texas grid, when faced with a historic cold snap, highlights the importance […]

August 28, 2020

Atlantic City Electric has proposed a major project, to modernize and enhance the energy grid across its service area in southern New Jersey. The company is going to invest about $220 million, which works out to approximately $4.30 on the […]

April 27, 2020

Industry advocates say almost 130,000 New Yorkers are employed by the energy efficiency sector, and now the state is rolling out initiatives to preserve those jobs and others in the clean energy industry. Along with the expedited payments, DPS also […]

April 24, 2020

As consumers and businesses grapple with the impacts of COVID-19, which is already shifting daily load shapes and electricity demand, regulators across the country are responding. Interestingly, in a handful of states, regulators are linking recovery efforts from the impending […]

February 12, 2019

Utility bosses believe that the risk of electricity consumers going off-grid and using it only as occasional backup will increase significantly in the next two years. That’s according to a new study from Accenture, in which 95 per cent of […]

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’ […]

August 7, 2017

The inspiration for this article came from Akeyla Clarke, pricing and rates manager for the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority. Earlier this year, in an inquiry posted to one of the American Public Power Association’s list servers, Clarke asked […]

July 18, 2017

Many utilities struggle to engage their customers, especially hard-to-reach markets such as commercial real estate (CRE) customers. It’s not unusual, but why is this the case? Doesn’t it make sense to just implement energy efficiency measures when they are presented […]

June 14, 2017

Steve Ballmer’s first reaction to the Apple iPhone was not his best moment. During a TV appearance in 2007, the then-Microsoft CEO and current owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, mocked the market potential of the iPhone. With a $500 […]

March 24, 2017

The Illinois Commerce Commission on March 22 unveiled the launch of an approximately eighteen-month study of issues tied to the “Utility of the Future.” The ICC said that the effort, dubbed “NextGrid,” is a “statewide collaborative to transform Illinois’ energy […]

September 1, 2016

Energy efficiency is helping to keep power demand stable in Nebraska, but that may mean higher fixed fees as utilities in the state struggle to maintain revenues. According to the Omaha World-Herald, Omaha Public Power District now expects declining demand […]