Electricity
Integrated Utility Services: A New Business Model for Fort Collins Utilities
The contents of this report provide a concrete rationale, from both the customer and utility perspectives, on the value of pursuing the IUS business model and refining it through a real-world pilot.
Efficient Use of Electricity
Electricity is fundamental to the quality of modern life. It is a uniquely valuable, versatile, and controllable form of energy, which can perform many tasks efficiently. In little over 100 years electricity has transformed the ways Americans and most people of the world live. Lighting, refrigeration, electric motors, medical technologies,…
Rate Design for the Distribution Edge: Electricity Pricing for A Distributed Resource Future
The U.S. electricity system is on the cusp of fundamental change, driven by rapidly improving cost-effectiveness of technologies that increase customers’ ability to efficiently manage, store, and generate electricity in homes and buildings. With growing adoption of these technologies, the electricity system is shifting toward a future in which the…
Executive Summary: Rate Design for the Distribution Edge: Electricity Pricing for A Distributed Resource Future
The U.S. electricity system is on the cusp of fundamental change, driven by rapidly improving cost-effectiveness of technologies that increase customers’ ability to efficiently manage, store, and generate electricity in homes and buildings. With growing adoption of these technologies, the electricity system is shifting toward a future in which the…
The Economics of Grid Defection: When and Where Distributed Solar Generation Plus Storage Competes with Traditional Utility Service (4-Pager)
4 Page fact sheet detailing the spiral of falling sales and rising electricity prices that make defection via solar-plus systems even more attractive and undermine utilities’ traditional business models.