Advanced Energy Perspectives

Today's guest post comes to us from Tim Healy, CEO of EnerNOC, an AEE member compnay. For more information on how you can become a member of AEE, click here.

When asked to submit a guest post for Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance Summit, I was delighted, particularly given the relevance of the theme – the new energy ROI:  Resilience, Optionality, and Intelligence – to EnerNOC’s focus and future.  It couldn’t be more fitting.  

A guest opinion post from IBM. Connect with Matt Futch on Twitter: @energyfox.

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit has two key words; “new” and “finance.”  These words help define the dilemma which U.S. energy regulators find themselves in now.  From its inception, the legal foundation for energy regulation has been focused on reliability and low cost.  However, new energy resources, policy demands, and industry dynamics are placing increasing stress on the financial model that supports our century-old regulatory charters.  Addressing these stresses requires innovation in business models, technology, and – perhaps most importantly – regulation.

For the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, Advanced Energy Perspectives has solicited guest posts for on the Summit theme of “resilience” from companies with technologies that make our energy system less vulnerable to disruption.

GreenBiz is bringing their international VERGE conference series to Boston, May 13-14. VERGE Boston will connect clean energy professionals with key business innovators, entrepreneurs, and leading public officials to explore the business opportunities created by radical efficiencies in energy, buildings and transportation technologies.

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This week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released its March Energy Infrastructure Update, revealing that advanced energy accounts for all of the new capacity installed so far this year. This data comes from calculating all the newly built energy projects that have come online in the first quarter of 2013, as well as any expansion of existing projects. Wind is closing in on installing a gigawatt of capacity this year alone—so far wind projects have added 958 megawatts to America’s energy portfolio. AWEA also released its report for 2012 this week, revealing that the U.S. cruised past 60 gigawatts of total wind capacity last year.