The June 2 release of EPA’s proposed rule to reduce carbon emissions, with its approval of a range of advanced energy technologies for compliance, has raised all sorts of questions. In an examination of what it all means for energy efficiency and demand response, Utility Dive talked to Malcolm Woolf, SVP of policy and government affairs at AEE, who described some of the ways these advanced energy technologies can tap new economic value under EPA’s draft rule.
“Investments in efficiency lengthen your other investments,” Woolf said. Energy efficiency and demand response are products “that the grid does not yet really monetize, but that we can monetize, and I think this EPA rule will help us do that.”
Elon Musk skyrocketed back into the news this week with major announcements from both his advanced energy companies. Late last week, Tesla Motors 
At the Edison Electric Institute’s annual convention this week, Warren Buffett briefly forgot how many billions of dollars his investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway, has invested in solar and wind projects. As 
This week, the top story centered on EPA’s release of its draft carbon emissions rule for existing power plants. We have already covered that story in depth in this week’s 
Remember Fisker Automotive? We figured we had heard the last of them after the bankrupt electric vehicle company was purchased in February by Wanxiang Group, a Chinese vehicle component manufacturing company that also bought Fisker supplier A123 Systems’ battery business out of bankruptcy. Not so. In an article titled “