Tag: Pricing

PHEVs Are on a Roll

The electric vehicle first made its appearance about a century ago, but it is only in recent years - months, to be ... Read Article

Meeting Future Utility Operating Challenges With a Smart Grid

The classical school of utility operations prescribes four priorities, ranked in the following descending order: safety, reliability, customer service and profit. Although ... Read Article

Plugging in the Consumer

Thanks to new technologies and the spirit of independence and empowerment fostered by the digital age, consumers are taking on broader and ... Read Article

Achieving Decentralized Coordination In the Electric Power Industry

For the past century, the dominant business and regulatory paradigms in the electric power industry have been centralized economic and physical control. ... Read Article

The GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project

The Olympic Peninsula Project consisted of a field demonstration and test of advanced price signal-based control of distributed energy resources (DERs). Sponsored ... Read Article

Ontario Pilot

Smart metering technologies are making it possible to provide residential utility customers with the sophisticated "smart pricing" options once available only to ... Read Article

Business Intelligence: The 'Better Light Bulb' for Improved Decision Making

Although some utilities have improved organizational agility by providing high-level executives with real-time visibility into operations, if they're to be truly effective, ... Read Article