Many are calling this potential adaptation “Utility 2.0” – a second generation electric company that can accommodate and thrive alongside distributed clean power generation, energy storage, and advanced energy management. “The way we structured utilities 100 years ago…doesn’t work today,” says Richard Kauffman, New York energy czar.
2 The technological change challenges us to redesign the electricity system.
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Download the entire report and see our other resources here.Ī growing number of experts in and out of the utility industry believe this shift in source and scale of power generation to distributed and renewable is largely inevitable. This is the first of four parts of our Beyond Utility 2.0 to Energy Democracy report being published in serial. Smartphones and smart appliances are giving electricity customers unprecedented opportunities to manage their energy use. Batteries and electric vehicles provide new tools for distributed energy storage. Electricity demand has leveled off, so that every unit of new wind and solar power produced for the grid displaces a unit of fossil fuel energy. The scale of electricity generation is rapidly shrinking, from coal and nuclear power plants that can power a million homes to solar and wind power plants that power a few to a few hundred nearby homes. electricity system is undergoing the biggest change in its 130-year history.
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