Energy Efficiency Should Connect Customers and Innovate Partners

How Utilities Can Become Efficiency Innovators Greentech Media, November 28, 2016 The New York Public Service Commission, seeking innovative solutions in its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, instead opted for an outcome-oriented approach to measuring and incentivizing efficiency performance. An outcome-oriented metric would focus on the policy goal of reduced energy use overall, putting a smaller … Read more

What’s Right with New York: A Primer on New York’s REV Proceeding

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Allison Donnelly, ERS, for Zondits. Image credit: Unsplash / 8180 images This is a good time to be working in clean energy. Nationwide, the costs of rooftop solar, LEDs, electric vehicles, and other sustainable technologies are coming down at an impressive rate. Technologies that once seemed to be on the fringe are becoming mainstream – even … Read more

REV and the State of Opportunity

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Gita Subramony for Zondits, October 15, 2015. Image credit: caruba Vox.com took a high level look at the importance and complexity of the REV initiative in New York State. New York’s examination of how power is bought, sold, distributed, and used represents an attempt at aligning electric utilities with cutting-edge technology and the drive towards climate … Read more