Advanced Energy United Webinars

Even as the D.C. Circuit Court weighs the future of EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), states across the country are figuring out how to reduce carbon emissions in the electric power sector. Some states are also beginning to look at how they will administer the compliance plan that gets them to their CPP target. State and federal air regulators face challenges in the form of budgetary and staff constraints, and inexperience with ways advanced energy technologies can be used to reduce carbon emissions. As EPA itself has indicated, one solution to this challenge is to turn to outside organizations for help.

Understanding the dozens and dozens of variables that contribute to a bill being enacted is a large undertaking. Bill outcome forecasting has only been considered possible by a small group of experts that have decades of experience with the political process. While human insight is still a crucial component, it is impossible for one person or even an entire organization to keep track of and understand the rapid changes that occur throughout the legislative process.

In 2015, the U.S. advanced energy industry grew to $200 billion, up 29% since 2011. This is a result of ever-improving economics and performance. As we define it, advanced energy includes renewables, demand response, energy storage, building efficiency, advanced controls and metering, and a variety of grid technologies.

PowerSuite is the only tool you’ll need for complete coverage of energy regulatory and legislative information.

There have been a lot of discussions around the country of late about the regulatory changes needed to create a 21st century electricity system. New regulatory approaches and utility business models are needed to integrate higher levels of distributed energy resources, take advantage of new technologies, meet environmental goals, and address changing customer needs and expectations. In an industry that has been slow to change historically, there is a lot at stake for utilities, advanced energy companies, and consumers.  In order to understand what transformations are needed, it’s first necessary to understand how electric utilities make money today.