{"title":"How to Refine Electric Utility Compensation for Increasing DER Market Participation","authors":"Michael Lavillotti, Amrita Pulidindi","doi":"10.1002/gas.22405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the energy sector embraces the core principles of sustainability, North America's electricity markets are experiencing a paradigm shift. The proliferation and acceptance of distributed energy resources (DERs) have fundamentally altered the dynamics of electricity generation and distribution, and how we leverage energy storage and demand response.<sup>1</sup> This is especially true for all utility types and DER owners/representatives, on the distribution system. While many consumers with DERs have successfully navigated the wholesale and retail energy markets, many challenges still exist with traditional utility models, sparking a reevaluation of compensation mechanisms for energy providers on the distribution system.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 11","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Asset Management","authors":"Andrew Biondi, Grace Roper, Michael Surtees","doi":"10.1002/gas.22404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22404","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Robust and real-time asset management is crucial for distribution utilities to operate their infrastructure efficiently. The importance and challenge of asset management has also grown significantly in response to new regulatory requirements, growing customer expectations, and rapid technological advancements. While the importance of actively managing assets is understood within the utility industry, the application of “best practices” in asset management varies based on the asset's criticality to the business. Issues surrounding the management of system critical assets have significant implications for distribution system operations. The strategies and technologies used to maintain critical infrastructure, and an examination of how other industries like commercial real estate manage assets, can shed light on how utilities could improve their approach to managing both critical and non-critical assets.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 11","pages":"10-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Clean Energy Transition and the Regulatory Paradigm","authors":"Paul A. DeCotis","doi":"10.1002/gas.22406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Being in regular contact with electric and natural gas industry professionals including regulators and policy makers, several critical concerns have been surfaced more prominently. The significance of these concerns center around the pace, scale, and cost of the clean energy transition. Collectively, we are at a point of reckoning—and conversations are now increasingly focused on these concerns.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 11","pages":"22-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer Centric Flexible Demand Management","authors":"Penni McLean-Conner","doi":"10.1002/gas.22399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional demand response is a proven and effective tool to address peak energy demand. In this model, consumers respond to a call for action by the electric grid operator. It is an effective—but blunt—instrument and one that will continue to play an important role in responding to times when the grid is stressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 10","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Biden Administration's LNG Pause: Impacts and Long-Term Implications","authors":"Richard G. Smead","doi":"10.1002/gas.22402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Biden Administration's widely publicized January “pausing” of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) review of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits sent a rolling wave of concern throughout the natural gas industry, as well as a small bubble of delight among environmental organizations and domestic industrial organizations who have long been opposed to LNG exports. What is the significance of the pause, both in the immediate term and more broadly? Do a few months of delay significantly matter, or, more importantly, does the pause suggest an anti-LNG attitude in moving forward to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 10","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Current State of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program Funding","authors":"Nolan Woodle, Jordan Olivier, Claudia Cappa","doi":"10.1002/gas.22400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reducing the transportation sector's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by transitioning away from fossil fuels and its impact on communities and the environment continues to receive considerable attention. In 2022, the U.S. transportation sector was responsible for generating the largest share of the United States' GHG emissions at approximately 37 percent of total emissions.<sup>1</sup> Electric vehicles (EVs) represent a viable option that can contribute significantly to reducing transportation sector emissions. As EVs become increasingly prevalent, ensuring the availability of adequate charging infrastructure to support these vehicles is a top priority of the Biden Administration and many states.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 10","pages":"11-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disparate Regulatory Pathways for Animating Net-Zero Legislation","authors":"Jeff D. Makholm, Andrew Busey, Soren Christian","doi":"10.1002/gas.22401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>State legislatures have been very active in recent years in the pursuit of net-zero action. This column discusses the essential institutional frameworks within which U.S. regulators and their utilities have long existed. That framework—legal, legislative, accounting, and administrative—defines the relationship between U.S. regulatory commissions and their jurisdictional utilities. That “institutional ecosystem” has been highly successful: prices in the U.S. for both retail electricity and natural gas public service is a fraction of those in our peer industrialized nations.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 10","pages":"21-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Launched 20 Years Ago, Environment, Social and Governance Principles and Market Value Remain Unchanged Despite Recent Challenges","authors":"David W. South","doi":"10.1002/gas.22398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22398","url":null,"abstract":"<p>ESG—environment, social and governance—was first introduced in a 2004 report by the United Nations' Global Compact. The institutions<sup>1</sup> that participated in the Financial Sector Initiative and endorsed the report believed that:</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 9","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strengthening the Supply Chain for Utility Infrastructure","authors":"Paul A. DeCotis","doi":"10.1002/gas.22397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22397","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the attention and resources being devoted to decarbonization and the drive toward electrifying buildings and transportation among other uses, there is a need to reengineer the relationships that utilities as buyers have with key suppliers. Strengthening the supply chain for utility infrastructure requires challenging old paradigms and moving away from the traditional relationship among and between buyers and participants along the supply chain.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 9","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph Spadoro, Katherine Vombergar, Mark Hoempler
{"title":"Flying High: The Role of Drones in Enhancing Utility Services","authors":"Joseph Spadoro, Katherine Vombergar, Mark Hoempler","doi":"10.1002/gas.22395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22395","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the dynamic and technology dependent energy industry, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), colloquially referred to as drones, have had a revolutionary impact with their multiple high-value applications and advantages.<sup>1</sup> As technological advancements redefine traditional practices, the integration of drones into routine operations has become a game-changer for power companies, utilities, and energy providers worldwide. From inspecting power infrastructure to optimizing maintenance processes, monitoring remote sites, and enhancing safety protocols, drones are ushering in a new era in the way the industry operates. UASs brings diverse applications and tangible benefits to the energy and utilities sector, showcasing how these unmanned systems are not only streamlining operations, but also elevating efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 9","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}