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Mitigating Climate Change: Thinking Outside The Box
Postcard From the Future: VPPs in Australia
Global Virtual Power Plant Market Trends
Japan Could Determine the Fate of the World Market for VPPs
Optimizing Your DER Line-up
Moving from VPPs to DERMS: A Global Phenomenon Driven by EVs
How Do You Energize a Queen?
Hydro Storage: A Less Expensive Battery
This Missing Piece of the Energy Puzzle
Deferring Climate Change at the Grid Edge
Managing Peak Demand and Resiliency Through Grid Modernization in the Pacific Northwest
Virtually There: From DERs to VPPs
Alectra is Building the Business Case for Integrating Microgrids, VPPs and DERMS
Two Sides of the Same Coin: How Enbala and Alectra Are Pushing the Energy Cloud Envelope
Can DERs Play Too?
Energy – A Fundamental Change in the Grid
ELECTRIC VEHICLES – good for our roads, good for our lungs, but good for our grids?
The Case for Distribution Voltage Management
Energy – A Philosophical Look at Change
Changing to Clean Energy
Virtual Power Plants Explained
DERMS, VPPs and DERs, Oh My!
How much energy is in a frozen turkey?
A Better Way
TENET #3 – ACHIEVING LONG-TERM GOALS REQUIRES UNLIMITED SCALABILITY
Could Virtual Power Plants Make Utilities the Uber of Distributed Energy Resources?
Efficiency and Cooperation
TENET #2: NEW FRONTIERS IN DER ACCURACY
The Grid Needs a Symphony, Not a Shouting Match
TENET #1: FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET
Taking VPPs to the Next Level
Virtual Power Plants and the New Energy Future
A commentary on the FERC NOPR to Integrate More DERs into Organized Markets
Disrupting the Status Quo… Thinking Out of the Box
Distributed Energy Resources and Cybersecurity
survey reveals interesting trends in distributed energy
An Investment in Distributed Energy Resource Management Beyond the Grid Edge
Distributed Energy Resources 101: Required Reading for a Modern Grid
Energy Policies Aimed at 100% Renewables are Well Intended… But Perhaps Misguided…
Transitioning the Energy Economy: One Very Logical Approach
What's Coming? The Power of Distributed Energy in a Modern Grid
Automation Plus Load Control Brings Big Savings to Small C&I Customers
DSM opportunity finally knocking for small and medium-sized C&I customers
Are you blue? Or seeing red?
Mix ‘n’ Match DERs
Adding PV to the grid: It takes more than firming
Distributed Energy Resources: The Energy Efficiency Story
Three Best Practices for IT/OT Convergence in a Distributed Energy World
The Energy Curtailment That Nobody Noticed
DERMS: Coming Soon to Your Utility’s IT/OT Convergence
Spock or Scotty: Which character fits your organization?
Load, the oft-overlooked distributed energy resource
Capturing the Full Benefits of Demand Flexibility
Fight, flight or innovate: How will utilities deal with DERs?
What if Disruptive Energy Technology Achieved 1% of Apple’s iMac numbers?
Demand-side resources are key to system flexibility
It’s Time to Ditch Disruption in Demand Response
Behind-the-meter grid support: Past, present and future
The Art of Persuasion: Studies that Can Help You Recruit DERs
Up, Down, All Around: Maximizing Demand-Side Resources
Why Voltage Support Should Be Local
More Equipment or Better Engagement: Which will pay off better for you?
Renewable curtailment: one symptom of grid troubles
Renewable Energy a Threat to Conventional Utilities?
Smart Inverters: Here today for tomorrow
Utility Maestro, Raise Your Baton!
Batteries vs. Demand Management: They’re Stronger Together
Variable Generation Issues Meet Their Match: Smart Inverters
Sustainable Firming: Use DERs to Back Renewables
Renewable Firming with Demand Side Resources? It Can Be Done!
Linking Distributed Energy Assets to Generate Higher Value
Distributed intelligence: You can’t really be smart without it
The Economics of Hybrid Storage
Why Distributed energy resources aren’t living up to their potential … yet
How much energy is in a frozen turkey?
Smarter solar: Go West!
Process Storage: The Missing Link in the Utility Energy Portfolio.
The Grid of the Future – a Bird’s-eye View
The Interconnected World: How Engaged are Electricity Customers with Their Utility?
Energy Efficiency: How can it be Achieved at all Levels of the Power System?
Hydro Storage: An Efficient and Lucrative Way to Store Energy
Consider a New Perspective on Energy Efficiency
The Evolving Electricity Grid: What are the challenges facing today’s power system and how can we solve them?
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