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Tag: power system


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

A new era of price-based demand response emerges, but utilities and regulators need proof of its potential

March 27, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Demand response can be more than traditional load control if flexible power system support from programs aggregating customer-owned resources is properly valued, new research finds. Utilities that recognize how price-based demand response, or PBDR, programs can change customer electricity usage […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Bulk Power System Deficiencies During Winter Storm Elliot Prompt Inquiries

December 29, 2022

Via: PowerMag

Assessments are underway to pin down factors that prompted emergencies, tight grid conditions, and even load-shedding by major entities as Winter Storm Elliot bore down on the North American bulk power system (BPS) this past week. The Federal Energy Regulatory […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Electric utilities aren’t doing enough to address inequities in today’s power system, advocates say

October 28, 2022

Via: Utility Dive

Following COVID-19 and the racial reckoning in the United States since the murder of George Floyd, electric utilities have faced growing calls to bolster their commitments to equity and to address issues of energy affordability. Advocates say the sector is […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Upheaval in utility regulation emerging nationally as Hawaii proves a performance-based approach

July 5, 2022

Via: Utility Dive

Many states are working on regulatory reforms focused on utility performance, but some compromise approaches may be self-defeating, performance-based regulation, or PBR, consultants said. “A future power system that is affordable and optimally integrates clean energy requires changing the current […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Hawaii finalizes utility regulation considered potential template for US power system transformation

January 19, 2021

Via: Utility Dive

A Dec. 23 order by Hawaii’s utility commission may lead to the most significant change in power system regulation in U.S. history by giving Hawaiian Electric new control over its future, proceeding participants said. Hawaiian Electric will become the first […]