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February 18, 2019
“共益电气化:确保电气化实现公共利益”系列报告之《共益电气化:热水供应》
- David Farnsworth ,
- Jim Lazar ,
- Jessica Shipley
执行摘要 技术进步,无论是发电效率还是最终使用燃料,都为共益电气化提供了机会。热水供应就是这些机会之一。热水供应占住宅能源帐单的近20% 左右——而且简单地说,今天用电加热1加仑水所需的能源,远远少于直接用化石燃料加热。 在本文中,我们探索可用于热水供应电气化有益的策略,这意味着它将满足我们的共益电气化标准中的至少一个,且同时不会对另外两个产生不利影响: 从长期看可以为消费者省钱;… View Summary +
December 17, 2018
“共益电气化:确保电气化实现公共利益”系列报告之《共益电气化:供暖》
- Jessica Shipley ,
- Jim Lazar ,
- David Farnsworth ,
- Camille Kadoch
执行摘要 睿博能源智库认为,有效益的电气化,或者说实现社会利益最大化的电气化,需要达到以下一个或多个条件,且对另外两个条件不产生反作用: 从长期看可以为消费者省钱; 促进电网的更好管理; 减少对环境的消极影响。… View Summary +
October 18, 2018
Smart Grid and Community Benefits—with No Rate Increase? How Burbank Made it Happen
- Jim Lazar
Burbank Water and Power (BWP) is a 50,000-customer, community-owned municipal utility in the Los Angeles area. BWP has implemented an advanced smart grid network, and did so with no rate increase to consumers. How did they do this?… View Summary +
August 16, 2018
共益电气化:确保电气化实现公共利益(二)
- David Farnsworth ,
- Jessica Shipley ,
- Jim Lazar ,
- Nancy Seidman
前言 本文为共益电气化:确保电气化实现公共利益 (英文版)摘要第二篇。尽管对于电力公司,消费者和公共环境来说,共益电气化可以带来巨大的创新和机遇,但共益电气化需要各州的行动支持,才能实现相关的利益。本节概述了重要的政策先决条件,实施流程和其他有助于成功实施共益电气化及其众多优势的考虑因素。… View Summary +
August 2, 2018
共益电气化:确保电气化实现公共利益(一)
- David Farnsworth ,
- Jessica Shipley ,
- Jim Lazar ,
- Nancy Seidman
前言 本文为睿博能源报告《… View Summary +
July 12, 2018
California’s Mandatory PV Code Amendment: Is It Really Time for This?
- Jim Lazar
The press has been abuzz this summer about the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) new building code amendment that will require most single-family residential and low-rise multi-family dwellings to incorporate PV systems at construction. The amendment takes effect in 2020. Buildings… View Summary +
June 11, 2018
Fuel-Switching: We Just Did This in 1990, So Why Are We Doing It Again?
RAP senior advisor Jim Lazar tells a story about doing a cost and environmental analysis on behalf of the Association of Northwest Gas Utilities in 1990, in which he compared space and water heating run on natural-gas-generated electricity to… View Summary +
January 30, 2018
Calming Chicken Little: An EV Grid Tale Without the Scary Ending
- Jim Lazar
When kids hear the fairy tale Chicken Little, they learn that a confused little bird is hit on the head with an acorn and concludes the sky is falling. It then manages to convince a handful of other animals of… View Summary +
August 7, 2017
With Sinking Storage Costs, Big-Box Solar Could Really Take Off
- Jim Lazar
We know that Target, Wal-Mart, Costco, Ikea, Kohl’s, and other big-box retailers have installed a lot of rooftop solar. They’ve mostly been doing so under net metering rules, and paying the demand charges for their net load on utilities… View Summary +
July 11, 2017
There’s Far More Opportunity Than Crisis in California Renewables Curtailment
- Jim Lazar
California curtailed renewables this spring. This sets off alarm bells in some quarters because it suggests that solar and wind are overbuilt and present a big challenge to the grid. The concerns, however, are misplaced, and solutions are… View Summary +