Sustainable Rate Design for a Modern Grid
…value of the power they supply. At a time when the United States is experiencing exponential growth in on-site power generation and sinking prices for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, these…
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With More Member-Sited Resources, What Does that Mean for Rate Design?
As prices for deploying on-site power generation trend downward, new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the United States have grown by 30 percent annually since 2001. Consumers have demonstrated that…
Combined Heat and Power: Standby Rates and Performance Regulation
In a power sector where the number of customers with on-site, non-emergency electricity generation is on the rise, U.S. regulators are faced with determining what constitutes fair compensation for standby…
Big Changes Ahead: Impacts of a Changing Utility Environment
…create great opportunity in energy services. These changes triggered an increase in the value placed on building efficiency management systems to reduce peak load, on-site storage, and low off-peak pricing…
Distributed Energy Resources in Europe: Opportunities and Challenges for Generation, Storage, and Demand-Response
Distributed energy resources (DER) — on-site, customer generation (e.g. solar photovoltaic systems), storage, and demand-response resources — can help Europe meet its power needs reliably and affordably. Tapping the full…
Behind the Meter Resources as a 111(d) Compliance Path
…standards, Mr. James and Mr. Shenot extended this concept to stationary sources to explore the benefits of behind the meter combined heat and power resources. This form of on-site generation…
Update on Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse
Lisa Schwartz gave this update to the NARUC-FERC Smart Response Collaborative on the Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse funded under the Recovery Act. The beta version of the web site, designed…
Distributed Generation, Emergency Resources, and Standby Service
…discusses the benefits and shortcomings of these concepts. Some of the specific topics he covers include an overview of DG and On-site generation, as well as examples of interesting practices….
Florida Electric Resource Long-range Planning Survey
This is a 2003 Florida electric resource long-range planning survey. Ten year site plans (generation expansion and site planning) are presented to the Florida PSC on an annual basis.
