Electricity
The Economics of Demand Flexibility: How “Flexiwatts” Create Quantifiable Value for Customers and the Grid
In this report we analyze demand flexibility’s economic opportunity. In the residential sector alone, widespread implementation of demand flexibility can save 10–15% of potential grid costs, and customers can cut their electric bills 10–40% with rates and technologies that exist today. Roughly 65 million customers already have potentially appropriate opt-in…
The Economics of Battery Energy Storage
Utilities, Regulators, and private industry have begun exploring how battery-based energy storage can provide value to the U.S. electricity grid at scale. However, exactly where energy storage is deployed on the electricity system can have an immense impact on the value created by the technology. With this report, we explore…
How to Calculate and Present Deep Retrofit Value: A Guide for Owner-Occupants (Executive Summary)
This might come as a surprise to some, but energy efficiency is about more than energy, and deep energy retrofits, which achieve superior energy savings over conventional retrofits and can reduce a building’s energy consumption by 50 percent or more, offer bottom-line benefits for business beyond energy cost savings alone.
The Economics of Load Defection
Grid-connected solar-plus-battery systems are coming, and could soon supply the majority of a customers’ electricity needs.
Bridges to New Solar Business Models
Utilities, solar companies, and regulators can design and implement components of solar business model strategies today that provide a bridge to the future. These “bridge” business model strategies—including three complementary “building blocks” and discrete next steps—can start to create and capture value, while also providing best practices and lessons learned…