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Electricity
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A Severe Winter Means High Energy Bills
How state utility regulators can help relieve hardship due to high energy prices.
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How Utilities Can Save Customers Billions of Dollars
If utilities modernize the way they select the resources they run each day, they can save carbon and reduce energy prices.
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Reality Check: The United States Has the Only Major Power Grid without a Plan
The US electric grid is fragmented into independent grids and transmission planning regions, which poses a threat to reliability, especially during increasingly frequent extreme weather events. To begin to address this issue, a recent FERC workshop laid out challenges and potential solutions for interregional transmission.
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Clean Energy 101: Virtual Power Plants
Homes and businesses can make the grid more reliable, and get paid to do so, by forming virtual power plants.
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Unwrapping Coal in 2022
As the world phases out coal, we ask four questions about coal transition mechanisms and where they are headed.