Electricity
Batteries: The Workhorse of an Affordable, Reliable Grid
Batteries can support grid affordability and reliability — if only grid planners would let them.
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Summer Disconnections Make the Living Less Easy
RMI’s latest report provides policy options to reduce the risks and impacts of electricity shutoffs.
Electricity
Disconnections Handbook
A report detailing US utility disconnections and outlining reform options for public utility commissions to protect households and reduce shutoffs.
Electricity
Reality Check: We Have What’s Needed to Reliably Power the Data Center Boom, and It’s Not Coal Plants
A range of clean, resilient solutions can help us meet the electrical needs of our growing digital economy while saving Americans money.
Electricity
Looking Under the Hood: How PUCs Evaluate Performance Incentive Mechanisms
Performance incentive mechanisms are evaluated differently across the United States. Part 1 of this two-part series looks at how it's handled in the Northeast.
Electricity
How PIM Evaluation Can Level Up
The second part of a two-part series, we offer recommendations for regulators from our research on performance incentive mechanism evaluation.
Buildings
How We Can Keep Cool Without Frying the Grid (Or the Planet)
The US power grid is facing another major test. After a massive heat dome settled over the US last week, temperatures pushed into the triple digits across major cities from St. Louis…
Electricity
The State Regulator’s Role in Transmission
A handbook for US state regulators on how to advance proactive transmission buildout to reduce costs for ratepayers.
Electricity
Reinvesting at Coal Plant Sites with Clean Energy Upgrades Supports both Reliability and Affordability
Economic dispatch and clean repowering can help transition away from coal, maximizing reliability while continuing to support energy communities.