Utilities

Assessing Energy Affordability Impacts and Other Key Metrics (Alongside Benefit-Cost Analyses) to Inform DER Investment Decisions

By Katherine Shok|2024-12-18T14:21:33-05:00December 18, 2024|

This multi-day course will describe how conducting a distributional equity analysis (DEA) can be used in conjunction with benefit-cost analyses (BCA) of DERs to provide a broader decision framework that considers key metrics – such as rate and bill impacts, participation, health and safety – and their impacts on underserved (e.g., low income) customers relative to all other customers.

Powering Tomorrow: Clean Energy for a Sustainable and Equitable Future

By Katherine Shok|2024-10-21T12:41:08-04:00October 21, 2024|

The DCPSC Clean Energy Summit educates and promotes collaboration among utility customers, utility companies, policymakers, and other groups. It is a unique opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of stakeholders working together toward a common objective.

The public commission governing your utility bills

By Katherine Shok|2024-09-10T11:07:35-04:00September 10, 2024|

Every state (and Guam) has a governmental board regulating the public and private companies that distribute essential utility services: the Public Utility Commission (PUC) or the Public Service Commission (PSC). These bodies act as [...]

Decarbonizing Energy: Setting and Measuring GHG Targets Through Utility Energy Efficiency Programs

By Katherine Shok|2024-09-03T12:41:37-04:00September 3, 2024|

Attendees will hear about multiple methods for setting GHG goals within energy efficiency programs, the various methods utilities can use to translate energy savings into GHG reductions, and what motivations, policies, targets, and equity considerations go into such a transition.

RMI and National Grid Examine the Role of Non-Pipeline Alternatives in the Energy Transition

By Katherine Shok|2024-06-04T09:52:28-04:00June 4, 2024|

In this webinar, utility decarbonization experts from RMI, National Grid, and PG&E discuss the research findings from a recent RMI-National Grid joint report on the role of non-pipeline alternatives (NPAs) and integrated energy planning in shaping the energy transition.

Net metering policies are under fire

By Katherine Shok|2024-06-04T10:00:59-04:00June 4, 2024|

As of the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, about four million homes have solar generation capacity, amounting to about three percent of residential buildings in the country. The distribution of these homes is dependent [...]

Power demand is skyrocketing. What should utilities do about it?

By Katherine Shok|2024-05-24T11:40:13-04:00May 24, 2024|

Join Canary Media and expert guests for a live online discussion on the challenge posed by fast-rising electricity demand and what utilities should be doing about it.

Utilities hope new fuels will save their gas grids

By Katherine Shok|2024-05-07T10:59:02-04:00May 7, 2024|

Across the country, states have been enacting legislation requiring gas and electric utilities to decarbonize their systems. Often, these bills complement statewide initiatives to reduce either total greenhouse gas emissions or specifically buildings-related emissions. [...]

TECH Clean California Data Webinar

By Katherine Shok|2023-09-29T13:47:39-04:00September 29, 2023|

How do heat pumps affect the cost of utility bills, panel upgrades, and greenhouse gas emissions -- and do the benefits outweigh the costs?

Energy Efficiency as a Resource Conference

By Katherine Shok|2023-08-17T14:32:19-04:00August 17, 2023|

Join us at the Energy Efficiency as Resource (EER) conference in Philadelphia, October 16–18, 2023, to explore how efficiency efforts can expand and evolve amid a transforming utility industry.