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Virtual generation and demand response: how Constellation Energy finds energy...
As operators for regional power grids such as PJM Interconnection begin to roll out more robust demand-response programs, the private sector is responding with software products that can save energy...
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Smart grid apps poised to score energy savings on top of...
Early lessons from utilities deploying proactive smart grid programs with their customers point to potentially significant energy savings if consumers are engaged with targeted communications they find...
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Green Button approaching critical mass – 27 million households now getting...
NOW, we’re getting somewhere with the Green Button Initiative.Nine investor-owned utilities from across the country have jumped on board enabling an updated total of about 27 million households to...
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Sprint-ing, not walking, the ‘talk’ to achieve sustainability goals
It’s becoming more clear every day that cleaner energy and environmental sustainability depends on private industry.The expiration of many renewable energy incentives, zero prospects for a U.S. carbon...
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Are low-income consumers slowing smart grid progress? Hardly . . .
The answer thus far would appear to be that low-income consumers are looking forward to smarter energy offerings based on fresh data from the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.A recent survey for...
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If half of U.S. consumers don’t know what a ‘smart meter’ is, how are they...
That is perhaps the most interesting question raised by the latest “Consumer Pulse” research by the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.In its third survey by the Collaborative of at least 1,000...
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FAST FIX: How the Smart Grid can save households almost $600 per year
If you need to quickly grasp the potential and benefits of the emerging smart grid in the U.S., this infographic is the best effort yet. It comes courtesy of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative and...
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Two FERC settlements illustrate attempts to ‘game’ demand response programs
Two settlements at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made public this year involving large civil penalties illustrate how the market for demand response (DR) services could be ‘gamed’ by...
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Let’s face it, regulators won’t let U.S. utilities die; they SHOULD update...
The tally of utilities and governments around the world imposing or boosting fixed charges for grid-supplied electricity is rising to make up for the decline in traditional, rate-based revenue. In the...
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Blackouts in PJM are a growing risk without changes reflecting new realities...
The lessons learned and the second-guessing prompted by the polar vortexes that walloped the Eastern U.S. twice in January taught us that the power grid in the Mid-Atlantic states needs — quickly — to...
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