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Category Archives: Electricity
Why Would Consumers Want a Home Battery? Part II
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Our last post, Part I of Why Would Consumers Want a Home Battery?, we identified four “value adds” that homeowners may find compelling enough to buy and install a cool new battery system like the new Powerwall … Continue reading
Why Would Consumers Want a Home Battery? Part I
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor At a recent press conference in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Edwin Musk gave a compelling presentation on how Tesla’s new Powerwall home battery system will revolutionize the electric industry. And you too … Continue reading
Why Auto Manufacturers Care About Getting Electric Vehicles to Market
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor At the end 2013 there were approximately 70,000 electric vehicles in the U.S. and 104,000 plug-in hybrids. This is minuscule compared to more than 226 million registered vehicles in the U.S. Why, you may … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged Electric Utilities, electric vehicles, EV, Zero Emissions
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How Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies Are Driving Low Load Growth
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) has increased 9% since 2008, yet electricity use has not increased at all. In our last blog post, we looked at factors that are contributing to the … Continue reading
Energy Efficiency Among Factors Contributing to the Nation’s Stagnant Electric Load
The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) has increased 9% since 2008, yet electricity use has not increased at all. What is causing such stagnation and what might a lack of load growth mean for the future of the utility as we know it? Continue reading
Posted in Electricity
Tagged Electric Utilities, Electricity Consumption, Electricity Use, Energy Efficiency, Load Growth
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Utility Investments in Emerging Technologies May Transform the Traditional Grid
As indicated in a recent survey of more than 400 utility executives, we could see a more rapid transformation of our traditional centralized electric grid than many observers have envisioned. Continue reading
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Tagged Electric Utilities, Energy Efficiency, Energy storage, Microgrids, Utility Business
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The Future for Utilities: More Efficiency and Less Fossil Fuels
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Enerdynamics recently released an update of its Electricity Flow infographic (click on infographic to enlarge): This graphic is based on data from the Energy Information Administration and shows the input fuels, conversion losses, … Continue reading
New Models Emerging as Potential Future of the Electric Distribution System, Part II
A possible new model for the electric distribution utility, the Distribution System Operator or DSO would break up the electric distribution business in a similar way that the bulk grid in many U.S. regions was disaggregated through the creation of Independent System Operators (ISOs). Continue reading
New Models Emerging as Potential Future of the Electric Distribution System, Part I
Technology is rapidly changing electric distribution and customer energy usage, which means electric utilities and their regulators are working to develop a model for the future of the electric distribution utility. Two potential models that are emerging in some U.S. states are the Distribution System Platform Provider (DSPP) and the Distribution System Operator (DSO). Continue reading
Will the Actions of Six Countries Determine the Future of Carbon Emissions?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor In a 2010 article in Wired Magazine, then Secretary of the Department of Energy Stephen Chu suggested that for the world to make progress on carbon emissions, it was most important to create a … Continue reading
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