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Share it This is one of four articles related to the 2021 State of the Electric Utility Survey Report. To see the other articles and download the report, visit our State of the Electric Utility landing page. Power companies are more focused than ever on cybersecurity, and experts say results of Utility Dives 8th annual State of the Electric Utility (SEU) survey show an industry working to better secure the grid. But they also say the responses reveal cause for concern — including the potent...

Share it This is one of four articles related to the 2021 State of the Electric Utility Survey Report. To see the other articles and download the report, visit our State of the Electric Utility landing page. Utilities have a long list of priorities for the federal government, according to Utility Dives 2021 State of the Electric Utility (SEU) Survey Report, released this week. Tax credits, enhanced cybersecurity requirements, baseload generation support, a carbon price and strong federal decar...

Share it This is the latest installment in Utility Dives "Taking Charge" series, where we engage with power sector leaders on the energy transition. Allison Clements, the 10th female commissioner to serve as a Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner, began her first public meeting this December with a promise: that the "grave threat of climate change" would absolutely underlie her role, which oversees the certification of pipelines, and setting rules for a wide swath of the U.S. power sector. ...

Might we learn from the Texas electrical grid debacle? If we Californians are smug our temerity, (we) may be punished. The interpretations of what happened to the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electrical grid are baffling. Texas Governor Abbot asserted the causality was the renewable energy facet of that grid. A frozen 4,500 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines were the problem when 30,000 MW of fossil fuel electrical generation plants went offline? Then, there is the gloating by some ...

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A total mindshift: Utilities replace gas peakers, old school demand response with flexible DERs Utility-customer cooperation can balance renewables variability with flexibility without using "blunt" demand response or natural gas. By: Herman K. Trabish Utilities and their customers are learning how their cooperation can provide mutual benefits by using the flexibility of distributed energy resources (DER) to cost-effectively balance the dynamics of the new power ...

Deputy Director Jessica Bell is an experienced attorney dedicated to promoting the public interest in the environmental and energy sectors. She previously served as the Clean Energy Attorney at the Center, focusing on energy law issues at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and on state energy policy matters. Immediately prior to joining the Center, she was an associate at Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, where she advocated for municipal utilities before state and federal agencies and courts. Bef...

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Governors Wind Energy Coalition No state is an island — Transmission keeps the lights on Source: By Rob Gramlich, Clean Energy Grid • Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2021 How many “unprecedented” weather events does it take before we realize that the future is inherently uncertain? No power system engineer can offer more wisdom than Yogi Berra’s: “The future ain’t what it used to be,” and “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” P...

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Crisis in Texas This is what happens when the challenges of climate adaptation run into the challenges of the energy transition. February 18, 2021 Karla Perez and Esperanza Gonzalez stay in their apartment during power outage caused by the winter storm on Feb. 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas. A winter storm has brought historic cold weather, power outages and traffic accidents to Texas. Credit: Go Nakamura/Getty Images Related Share this article Even before the fr...