During a discussion organized by the Forum for Energy Analysis, RAP staff highlighted the opportunities and challenges for demand response in Poland. Drawing on U.S. and European experiences, the discussion focused on the use of demand response as a power system resource. It was held in the ambit of the Panel of Experts, an interactive…

If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. In the 2014 paper Teaching the Duck to Fly, Jim Lazar set out ten strategies for aligning loads and resources to make the load curve easier to serve. Starting with the so-called “duck curve” published by the California Independent System Operator,…

Driven by internal factors, the move towards integration of the European power system, and broader environmental and climate policy, the Polish power sector is in a time of change. In light of these challenges, a clear vision for the evolution of the Polish power sector is needed. Polish Energy in Europe: Modernisation Challenges will address…

If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. Energy efficiency is a valuable, least-cost alternative to supply-side investments. States’ recognition of this value has grown dramatically in the U.S. over the past ten years, with leading jurisdictions now acquiring more than twice as much electric efficiency savings as they…

Energy efficiency is widely recognized as a low-cost, readily available resource that reduces greenhouse gas emissions. During a conference at the COP 21, RAP’s Richard Cowart and Max Dupuy join reputed international speakers to discuss how to harmonize energy efficiency policies and climate targets, as well as identify effective tools for delivering efficiency savings. Full…

Energy efficiency is widely recognized as a low-cost, readily available resource that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and provides benefits to utility customers and to society as a whole. Establishing an energy efficiency obligation (EEO) is one of the most effective means of capturing energy efficiency resources. During this side event at the COP 21 in…

Demand Charges: Pathway or Detour? from Regulatory Assistance Project Studies show that creative rate design can achieve up to a 35 percent reduction in customer usage during critical peak hours, and up to a 15 percent difference in total consumption over the course of a year. Demand charges have been a part of electric rate design…

If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. Do you know how compliance with EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will affect your region’s voluntary and regulatory renewable energy markets? Do you know how carbon trading under mass-based and rate-based programs can be coordinated with existing REC trading? The Center…

On November 4, 2015 RAP led a workshop for the Baltic states on the design and implementation of energy efficiency obligation (EEO) schemes. The Latvian Ministry of Economics hosted the workshop designed to support government ministries and stakeholders charged with implementing Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive. Drawing on RAP’s Toolkit for Energy Efficiency…

The debate on EU energy market design is well underway and demand response and consumer empowerment must be central to any reform. Indeed much evidence proves that demand response can be a reliable and low-cost energy resource that brings many co-benefits, in particular cost-effective integration of variable renewable energy into the power system and lower…