Advanced Energy Perspectives

United’s Caitlin Marquis and Doug Pietrucha outline a recent report produced for Advanced Energy Institute by Grid Strategies and the Brattle Group that measures each RTO/ISO generator interconnection process using both qualitative and quantitative data.

United’s Meron Lemmi outlines a recent study by Strategen conducted for Advanced Energy United that sounds the alarm for Consumers Energy customers in Michigan. Monthly home heating bills, an already significant burden for many, are forecasted to rise — from an average of $75 in 2021 to between $114 and $131 in 2030. 

The Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance’s Micalah Spenrath outlines the ADER Pilot Project, a testing ground for allowing consumers to contribute energy to the electricity market, thereby becoming prosumers that can both consume and produce electricity.

Advanced Energy United’s Ryan Gallentine advocates that to fully harness the potential of electric vehicles, we must recognize and prioritize the urgent need to invest in grid infrastructure.

United’s Sarah Steinberg outlines a the major progress made in the building energy transition in 2023 across the United States.

Across the country, over 2,000 gigawatts of resources representing 10,000 projects are waiting for the green light to connect to the grid so they can commence construction and start operating. Advanced Energy United’s Caitlin Marquis and Doug Pietrucha walk through the interconnection process, highlighting challenges faced along the way and explaining why some of the projects don’t make it to commercial operation.

Since 2016, the United States has acknowledged every first Wednesday in October to celebrate one of the most essential players in combating climate change: energy efficiency.

Advanced Energy United’s Caitlin Marquis and Doug Pietrucha break down FERC Order No. 2023’s implications for interconnection reform.

Costs to consumers from congestion on the U.S. power grid more than doubled to an estimated $13 billion in 2021 from the year before and was estimated to reach $21 billion in 2022 and will likely keep rising until the needed transmission capacity is built.

Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA) encourages the Public Utility Commission of Texas to prioritize reforms to Texas’ energy efficiency programs and to continue to make progress on the Energy Efficiency Implementation Project.

While Congress debates what role the federal government should take in supporting this development, several states have used their legislative sessions in 2023 to make important progress in addressing the desperate need for more transmission infrastructure.

MISO’s efforts can serve as a national model for long-range transmission planning to meet the needs of a changing generation resource mix, while also demonstrating the challenges in ensuring that effective planning happens everywhere – and leads to development of the transmission needed for a clean energy future.