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Distributed generation (“DG”) is going to be a major influence in the future of the electric industry in the United States. The blend of existing opportunities and challenges has created an environment for electric utilities to consider integrating DG technologies into...

Proven shale gas reserves and fracking technology have dramatically changed the production capability for natural gas and the anticipated utilization of natural gas. Energy Tomorrow touts the U.S. as a world power in natural gas, supported by the largest energy...

For the past several years and notwithstanding the economic woes, growth in residential household load usage has been subdued by the impact of increased efficiencies in electric appliances. Government regulations in the past have called for more efficient HVAC systems,...

Agriculture is a vital industry in the United States, representing approximately $180 billion in the U.S. economy. Rising energy costs threaten the economic viability of farms and have rippling effects throughout the entire economy due to increased food costs and decreased...

Transmission dependent utilities (TDUs) have to sort through a myriad of ancillary service schedules that are contained within the open access transmission tariffs (OATT) of their electric transmission service providers. What are these “ancillary” services? Which ones need...

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius Not long ago, a man with a South African accent proclaims to an excited LA auditorium that he is there to announce “a fundamental transformation in how the...

DOWNLOAD PDF The Next Evolution of Residential Rates Traditionally, residential rate design has done an imperfect job of recovering fixed costs appropriately. For decades, the standard residential rate has consisted of a customer charge and a consumption-based...

Note: This is the second blog in a series where I outline some Energy Efficiency (EE) & Demand Response (DR) best practices and methods to help you find the data, analytical techniques and case studies to jump-start your energy efficiency and demand response initiatives,...

IN THIS ISSUE: Survivor: The Natural Gas Dilemma Edition Distributed Generation: Making a Deal Between Opportunities and Challenges | VIEW DOWNLOAD PDF Survivor: The Natural Gas Dilemma Edition Proven shale gas reserves and fracking technology have dramatically...

When the first U.S. nuclear expansion in more than 20 years was proposed by Georgia Power as a new generation power plant, GDS’ nuclear engineer, Dr. William R. Jacobs, Jr., said the project had the potential of being of utmost importance in the global nuclear-energy...