Microgrids
- Verde Xchange Conference 2014 Video - Microgrids for Smarter Buildings and Communities
- How ‘Hybrid Electric Buildings’ Will Transform Commercial Real Estate
- Doing It Right: Top 6 Things to Consider When Developing Microgrids
- Why California Will Lead the World on Microgrids
- New Navigant Research report reaffirms that North America is global leader on microgrids
- In San Diego, a Tale of Two Microgrids
- Microgrid Milestones for 2013
- Perfect Power: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener and More Abundant Energy
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories: Microgrids
- Energy Storage Solutions for Microgrids
- Connecticut Microgrid Grant and Loan Program
- North America Leading Microgrid Market
- Smart Grid News: Will microgrids destroy traditional utilities – or save them
- Microgrids Don’t Have To Be A Death Knell For Electric Utilities
- Post Sandy, U.S. pushes microgrids
DR & Ancillary Services
- California Aims to Increase Efficiency, Demand Response to Meet Need for Reliable, Low-Carbon Energy System: 2013 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR)
- Why Are California’s Efforts on Energy Efficiency Failing?
- ADR Focus at DistribuTECH
- Bridge Funding for IOU Demand Response Programs Approved by CPUC
- Could Google’s Investment in Nest Hurt Efforts to Increase Energy Efficiency?
- Net Zero Energy Buildings Gain Market Traction
Energy Storage
- Blowing Up: Tesla’s Gigafactory is Going to Revolutionize the Auto and Utility Industries
- Tesla’s Most Disruptive Product May Not Be It’s Cars
- How Tesla Batteries Are Powering an Energy Revolution
- Investors Shifting from Smart Meters to Energy Storage
- The scaling of Downstream Energy Storage
- DOE Throws its Weight Behind Energy Storage
- The Case for Distributed Energy Storage
- Electricity Storage Association: Community Energy Storage
- Smart Grid News: What’s to like about California’s ‘all of the above’ energy storage approach
- KEMA: Energy Storage Innovations
- KEMA: Utility of the Future Guidebook Vol. 2: The promise of energy storage
- Public Utilities Fortnightly: Valuing Distributed Storage
- California Energy Commission: 2020 Strategic Analysis of Energy Storage in California
- Sandia Laboratory: Energy Storage for the Electricity Grid: Benefits and Market Potential Benefits Guide
- Electricity Advisory Committee: Bottling Energy: Storage as a Strategic Tool for Managing Variability and Capacity Concerns in the Modern Grid
- Greentech Media: California Set Terms of Massive Energy Storage Mandate
- Breaking Energy: California Proposes Framework for Energy Storage Procurement Program
- California Public Utilities Commission’s Carla Peterman’s Address to first annual Energy Storage North America Expo
- California Public Utilities Commission’s has identified 21 Energy Storage Applications to Comply with AB 2514
- Six Things to Consider When Developing a Microgrid
- New York Offers $40 Million Prize for Microgrids
- Building the Business Case for Microgrids
- Even Bill Gates is Betting on Energy Storage
- Energy Storage Innovator Xtreme Power to File for Bankruptcy?
Renewables
- Micro Wind Turbines to Power up Your Cell Phone?
- Ample Tax, Debt Equity Available for Renewables in 2014
- Could Solar Solve the Peaking Problem in Texas?
- Cuts in Funding Threaten Germany’s Aggressive Renewable Energy Goals
- E3 Study Investigates Impacts of a Higher RPS target for California
CPUC Proceedings
Utility Business Models
Major Acquisitions
Electric Vehicles
- Are Ford and SunPower About to Make the Grid Irrelevant for EV Charging?
- New York and California To Lead on EVS, but other States Are Also Moving Forward
- New Revenue Streams for EV Manufacturers Loom on the Horizon
- Gov. Brown Steers Cap & trade Auction Funds Toward Electric Vehicles: budget proposal
Demand Response & Ancillary Services
- Upcoming DistribuTECH conference to highlight Demand Response
- CAISO Demand Response Research Roadmap Raises Bar for California
- Department of Energy: Demand Response
- California Independent System Operator Papers on Capacity Market Design
- California Independent System Operator Papers on Ancillary Services
- California Independent System Operator Draft Demand Response & Energy Efficiency Roadmap
Virtual Power Plants
- How Demand Response Can Create Virtual Power Plants
- Virtual Power Plants Fill Supply Gaps in Heat Wave