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A candidate for Rensselaer County Executive is alleging the Republican Party is misusing third-party ballot lines.

'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 system. The future is in utilities investing in technologies to manage the growth of customer-o...

Rensselaer County GOP aims to register supporters in Working Families Party FacebookTwitterEmail Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin delivers an update on the county's ongoing coronavirus response on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at the Rensselaer County Office Building in Troy, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron TROY – Rensselaer County Republicans are moving party supporters into the Working Families Party from the Independence Party in an effort to offset Democratic strength in November when County Executive Steve McLaughlin runs for re-election, officials in the three part...

Share it Utilities' ability to protect reliability in today's rapid transition to variable, distributed generation faces two key barriers and regulators' help is needed to overcome them. Advanced demand response (DR) can use the flexibility of customer-owned technologies to meet the balancing challenges of the changing supply mix, regulators and utility executives agreed during an Oct. 20 symposium hosted by The Brattle Group. Utility pilots are revealing what works, but also showing how technology and incentive structures are keeping flexible loads, such as customer-owned solar and smart...