We’ve been hearing for several years now that electrical utilities are approaching a time of transformation. It’s been predicted that distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar systems and battery-based energy...

According to a new report from Navigant Research , while the growth of distributed energy resources (DER) poses some significant challenges for electric utilities, it also provides a number of opportunities. "The...

In the past few years, there has been an explosion of customer-owned and -sited renewable energy generation (called distributed energy resources, or DER), such as residential rooftop solar, larger solar installations (on...

As cities increasingly adopt methods to help them generate and consume clean power, storage is emerging as an important tool. A recent study by market research firm Navigant Research analyzes this trend. Entitled, "Smart...