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What Happens When Utilities Start to Integrate the IRA into Planning?
When utilities integrate the Inflation Reduction Act into their planning, the future looks a lot brighter.
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A Utility Investment Plan Is Like a Camel
How reimagining resource planning can help regulators avoid breaking the camel’s back.
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Reimagining Resource Planning
Utilities and regulators have an opportunity to reimagine resource planning to ensure that it remains trusted, comprehensive, and aligned.
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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.
Electricity
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…
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Virtual Power Plants, Real Benefits
This analysis from RMI's VP3 illustrates the benefits of virtual power plants and describes key priorities for unlocking market growth.
Electricity
RMI Launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” With Support from General Motors & Google Nest
RMI Launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” With Support from General Motors & Google Nest The “VP3” Initiative will Help Catalyze Potential for Rapid Growth of Virtual Power Plants Boulder, CO – January 10, 2023…
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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.
Electricity
Unwrapping Coal in 2022
As the world phases out coal, we ask four questions about coal transition mechanisms and where they are headed.