Commentary
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Renewables
The POWER Interview: Importance of Pricing Data for Renewable Energy
The highs and lows of markets for renewable energy are driving more interest in granular pricing data. Any company embarking on a new project must do its research to ensure that it calculates the proceeds based on the right financial information. With so much data now readily available, it’s more important than ever to use […]
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Commentary
How to Protect the Corporate Bottom Line When Energy Prices Soar
Oil, gas and power prices are increasing on a daily basis. From weather to world events, inflation has skyrocketed and energy prices are soaring. This has created a market volatility that is directly impacting the wallets of consumers and the bottom lines of all size businesses. Yet some companies are having little to no economic […]
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Point-Counterpoint
Natural Gas Bans Expensive, and Would Impact Electric Grid Reliability
Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or discourage the use of natural gas in new homes and buildings, just a few years after
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Point-Counterpoint
Electrification Is the Sustainable Choice, but the Transition Is Not Just Technical
Energy powers everything we do. Where and how we create it—and how we store and distribute it—is constantly evolving. One of the most likely evolutions is electrification, which promises to have a huge
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Legal & Regulatory
Electric Utilities Have Critical Role in Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
Electric utilities will play a critical role in new broadband infrastructure deployment under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, known as the Infrastructure Act. Whether access to the internet
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Nuclear
How Does Nuclear Power Fit into a Country’s Energy Policy?
Reliable energy forms a fundamental building block of industrial and modern society. When a country examines its energy profile and determines its energy policy, it considers three main pillars: energy equity
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Commentary
White House Calls on Defense Production Act to Bolster EV Battery Supply
When the White House signed an executive order to get to 50% electric vehicle (EV) sales share by 2030 while relying on American manufacturing, there were some serious concerns about whether the U.S. could make that many EVs, and then create the infrastructure in time to support that many new EVs on the road. COMMENTARY […]
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Legal & Regulatory
California and Oregon Sail Forward on Offshore Wind
The Biden administration in 2021 announced its goal of developing 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. Deep water off the West Coast means that any wind energy generation on this side of the U.S. must float
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Renewables
Competition Is More Important Than Ever to Tackle Today’s Energy Challenges
As we commemorate another Earth Day this April, the challenges facing our energy systems and the environment seem more pressing than ever. Americans face continued economic uncertainty following the COVID-19
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Interview
The POWER Interview: Energy Experts Discuss Electrification
Electrification is changing global energy use, as entities worldwide replace technologies that use fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil, and coal, with processes that electricity as the source of energy. Proponents of electrification tout it as a way to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the industrial, transportation, building and other sectors, which […]