You’re a utility going along and doing something your system is designed to do. And you’re addressing system efficiency on a 50-year old infrastructure, or else face reliability penalties. Oh, and you’re addressing demand-side efficiency too—so revenues are down. Did I mention no rate increase? Sound familiar?

Providing electricity at a reasonable price is no easy task, ask any utility executive. And it has become far more difficult with the substantial differences between peak and average load in the grid. But what if electricity demand could somehow be flattened?

If one thing is certain about the direction of carbon policy in the US, it’s that there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty about where it’s heading and when. A portfolio approach to carbon planning is providing a number of US electric utilities a solid ground for cost, investment and operations decisions to take on [...]

Duke Energy has been at the forefront of redefining utility strategy, management and operations to balance reliability, sustainability and performance objectives. The Chairman and CEO of the Fortune 500 power company will be sharing insight into innovations in utility strategy and into balancing business and technology for sustainable energy supply and delivery at the KEMA [...]

A national energy storage policy incentive structure can spur job creation in the US. A recently issued ESA report, “Assessment of Jobs Benefits from Storage Legislation,” projects approximately 114,000 incremental jobs could be created by 2020, if investors received the proposed investment tax credit associated with energy storage legislation currently being debated in the US [...]