Utility Industry
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
5 statements about Utility Industry, every show
Utility sector faces first electricity demand growth since air conditioning invention
“The truth is, suddenly, the utility industry is going from 40 years of flat and declining load to the first growth moment since the air conditioning unit was invented.”
Distributed energy rate designs risk favoring the wealthiest ten percent
“I mean, a lot of people who buy these distributed resources today EVs very much being that, solar, whatever, are generally very wealthy people, and so are we now doing rate design and setting operational constraints based on what the richest 10% want, or are w…”
Jaramillo: Traditional Utility Modeling Averages Away Weather Extremes and Renewables Variability
“If you look at the way that the utility industry does it and has done it for a very long time, it is that averaged approach that they take to try and forecast how to build this portfolio of assets to meet the growing demand that they're going to need. And if y…”
Schroeder: EV manufacturing scale will drive down grid battery costs
“And my hypothesis is, the same thing is going to give you a grid battery because those Not early adopters, but earlier than the grid EV manufacturers are going to wring the cost out of it, and utility industry will be the beneficiary there.”
Pierpoint: Utilities historically treated end-users as passive meters, not humans
“Historically, in the utility industry, we just talk about meters, you know, that for them, basically, everything that happens at the end of the line is about the meter. So you have this many meters in this territory, you have this many meters acting in this ma…”