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The definitive annual survey of North American utilities reveals widespread acceptance of clean energy, overwhelming support for carbon pricing, a nearly unanimous rejection of coal, and clear desire for stable policy – unfortunate news for the Trump Administration’s energy agenda. Utility Dive’s 2018 State of the Electric Utility (SEU) survey shows that utility professionals are bullish on renewable energy, bearish on coal-fired generation, and … [Read more...]
An increasing number of communities in Minnesota are developing clean energy, climate, and resilience goals and launching projects to meet them. These projects include public building energy efficiency, new and more efficient street lighting, solar projects, PACE financing, and many other community-wide initiatives. … [Read more...]
The Super Bowl is upon us once again, along with all the fun sideshows that go with it. There are few events in American culture that bring as many people collectively around a single event quite like the Super Bowl, with even non-football fans gorging on fatty foods, enjoying the commercials, and relishing in the excuse to attend parties on a Sunday evening. … [Read more...]
Deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and automation technologies, coupled with the increased availability of energy data is transforming how consumers understand and use electricity. Utilities need to continue to embrace new technologies to delight their customers. … [Read more...]
Electrification of heating and cooling in homes and buildings offers many benefits to consumers — and can significantly reduce carbon pollution from the built environment. However, cost and other challenges currently stymie the use of electric technologies such as heat pumps. … [Read more...]
Over the past ten years utilities globally have been using new technologies across the value chain to extract value, defer investments and improve customer satisfaction. In this piece we highlight the digital imperative for the industry and how utilities can optimize their digital strategies. Indeed, digitization is at an inflection point in the sector, where a trend of technological convergence is taking hold. … [Read more...]
Many utilities around the globe are currently adapting their business model to the 3 Ds “Decentralization, Decarbonization and Digitalization”. Especially in the medium- and long- run it seems to be consensus that utilities need to change their asset-based business model towards a service-based model. … [Read more...]
Over the past few days the Richmond Times-Dispatch has run a three-part special report detailing Dominion Energy’s grip on the Virginia General Assembly and the company’s abuse of that power to enrich itself at the expense of its captive customers. … [Read more...]
In order to assess the progress that blockchain has made in the energy and utilities industry to-date and to forecast activity for 2018 a useful data point is to examine what is happening across other industries. By looking at industries such as financial services, healthcare and consumer goods we can perhaps see what less risk adverse and more consumer facing industries are experiencing in terms of activity. … [Read more...]
In December 2016 CEER, the Council of European Energy Regulators, updated its overview about data management models in Europe (see here). The report summarizes how some member states facilitate the management of data from smart metering. CEER refers to data management as “[…] the technical model through which data is sourced, validated, stored, protected and processed, and through which it can be accessed” (CEER, 2016, p.9). We apply this … [Read more...]
Utilities and a host of energy companies are increasingly interacting with new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain and robotics. In our latest #indigoinsights infographic below we explore AI in the energy sector including emerging applications, key solution providers and how AI fits into the broader trend of new energy technologies. … [Read more...]
Last month, Indigo launched a dedicated blockchain in energy and utilities resource center. The purpose of the center is to track global blockchain deployments, emerging vendors and notable activity. As it’s a burgeoning area across the sector, there is much to be defined from both a technical and business application perspective. That said, we are seeing common trends emerge, many of which became apparent at the world's first blockchain and … [Read more...]
As the energy and utilities industry continues to rapidly transform, the area of utility data monetization is becoming increasingly a critical topic. Currently there is no universal data sharing model that has been endorsed by customers, regulators, utilities and those operating at the edge of the grid. Each stakeholder has their own particular needs and value associated with various sets of data, whether that be in a connected home, on a utility … [Read more...]
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