Tag: Public utility

Here’s a follow-on to my post about rethinking our relationships with our power utilities.  According to my friends at the SmartGridNews, it appears that the State of Massachusetts may be in the process of doing exactly that. It wasn’t that …

Asking Our Power Utilities To Take the Plunge into Smart Grid Read More »

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Does the world pay attention when little ol’ Craig Shields says that the power utilities are in trouble, due to distributed generation and microgrids? Hardly. But when the best minds at Citibank (see article linked above) say essentially the same …

Power Utilities – “Dinosaurs Waiting To Die” Read More »

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Here’s an article that illustrates a principle I often discuss here: the lack of proper incentives and regulation to get the power utilities to embrace energy efficiency.  As a society, we need to use less energy, but that will only …

Energy Efficiency Sounds So Good, But Where Are the Incentives To Make It Happen? Read More »

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