Publish Date: March 28, 2017
Performance-based regulation (PBR) is a regulatory framework that attempts to align the behavior and financial interests of regulated utilities with public interest objectives and consumer benefits. It does so by rewarding utilities for achieving well-defined performance metrics (outputs), as opposed to providing incentives related primarily to capital investment (inputs).
Topics: PUCs, Regulatory
Publish Date: March 6, 2017
Global and U.S. Market Revenue 2011-16 and Key Trends in Advanced Energy Growth
Publish Date: February 14, 2017
Michigan faces challenges in the coming years, including a projected 2,000 megawatt (MW) increase summer peak demand in the Lower Peninsula from 2017-2026. In Michigan, as in many states, demand for electricity can spike during just a few hours a year.
Typically, 10 percent of our electric system capacity is built to meet demand in just 1 percent of hours during the year. This comes at a significant cost to consumers. Resource constraints in the Lower Peninsula are largely driven by weather, making peak demand events predictable — and therefore good candidates for management.
Topics: State Policy, PUCs, Regulatory
Publish Date: February 14, 2017
In 2016, FERC responded to comments from AEE and others calling for the Commission to expand its initial inquiry into barriers facing energy storage to examine a wider array of advanced energy technologies that cannot fully compete under current market rules by including distributed energy resources like rooftop solar when they are aggregated for market participation.
AEE supported this expansion of the rule to encompass aggregated distributed energy resources (DER) and encouraged FERC to continue to pursue breaking down of barriers to market competition in a comprehensive way.
Topics: Wholesale Markets, Federal Priorities
Publish Date: December 20, 2016
Topics: State Policy, PUCs, Regulatory
Publish Date: December 20, 2016
Topics: State Policy, PUCs, Regulatory
Publish Date: December 20, 2016
Topics: State Policy, PUCs, Regulatory
Publish Date: December 20, 2016
Within just a few years, corporate renewable energy procurement has become a widespread trend, no longer limited to a select number of forward-looking companies. This shift brings some challenges, but also opportunities for economic development, resource diversification, and collaboration between utilities, customers, policymakers, and advanced energy developers. Now, a new report documents the extent of this trend and another explores how states can adjust to—and benefit from—the shifting priorities of Corporate America.
Publish Date: November 16, 2016
At nearly 48,000 workers, advanced energy employs nearly twice as many people in Indiana as colleges and universities, more than machinery manufacturing, and approaching auto parts manufacturing.
The advanced energy industry now supports one out of every 50 workers in Indiana and is expected to grow 2% by the end of 2016, with employers adding more over 900 new jobs by yearend.
Topics: State Policy, Advanced Energy Employment
Publish Date: November 9, 2016
On November 9, 2016, AEE sent a memo to the Transition Committee of President-elect Trump with recommendations with recommendations for modernizing the electric power system as part of infrastructure rebuilding, transforming utility business models to accelerate the adoption of advanced energy technologies, and ensuring that all technologies get to compete to achieve objectives.
Topics: Federal Priorities