Annual electric generation in 2020 was approximately 4,200 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) and has been relatively flat over the past decade. Renewable sources reached 800 billion kWh in 2020, which is about the same amount as...
The potential benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) extend beyond making combustion engines obsolete. The battery technology that powers EVs can also be deployed as a storage asset, delivering power back to the grid and...
The amount of distributed energy resources (DERs) that will come online in the United States in the next four years will be close to the installed capacity of PJM, the largest North American power market—“a mind-blowing...
When trying to determine the effects of renewable energy sources on the quality of the electrical supply, one must first carefully examine the statistics and what goes into them. Lately, the term “renewable” has been focused...
Imagine this: you have solar panels on your house that generate more energy than you need, so you decide to sell your excess energy. You go to an online marketplace, where you have the ability to sell the energy to your local...
In a move that could be seen as the first step in a burgeoning nationwide trend, “Order Instituting Rulemaking to Modernize the Electric Grid for a High Distributed Energy Resource Future,” a new rulemaking launched by the...
A new report by Wood Mackenzie suggests that the exponential growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as wind, solar and battery storage, pose both benefits and challenges for electric utilities, largely due to the...
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 proliferation...
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...
