Tag: US utilities

March 21, 2022

The United States (US) power grids are at the center of a significant transformation that will ultimately lead to the decarbonization of all economic sectors, the increase of distributed renewable generation and the electrification of consumption. In this context, the […]

September 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Driving this sea change in long-term […]

September 4, 2019

Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday morning continued its creep toward the U.S. mainland, but had slowed to a Category 2 storm — meaning electric utilities in its path could be spared the worst. But up and down the East Coast they […]

May 4, 2018

EY, together with a leading global analyst house, has modeled three critical tipping points that mark utilities’ potential journey toward a new energy system. In most regions analyzed, these tipping points are staggered over a number of years, allowing utilities […]

November 8, 2017

Analytics capabilities are entering a third evolutionary stage at utilities, forming ecosystems of customer insights and engagement. The spread of distributed energy resources (DERs) is driving the creation of new analytics and IT ecosystems for utilities. These ecosystems have become […]

September 5, 2017

Utilities added 207 MW, 257 MWh of energy storage in 2016, according to a new report from the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). The states where the most energy storage was installed last year were California (120.5 MW, 176.6 MWh), […]