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Atkinson: High solar saturation in Hawaii and Australia causes utility pushback and installation limits
“One of the things that we've seen go into place in places like Hawaii and Australia, where this is also an issue, is that you'll start to see limitations on how much solar can go in, whether that's limiting new installs or limiting the size of the install. You…”
Atkinson: Most utilities lack direct metering data on rooftop solar
“Very few utilities have great data on what's happening with the solar generation within their territory, for example. Most utilities don't directly meter that, so they can't really tell exactly what's happening with rooftop solar.”
Atkinson: Only six US utilities target full decarbonization by 2030
“It's really only six utilities in the country that have set goals that are that short term for full scale decarbonization.”
Atkinson: Distribution utilities lack systems to handle FERC 2222 energy resources
“It actually mandates that those aggregations are allowed to cross multiple connection points between the transmission system and local grids. And so that actually puts quite a bit of pressure onto distribution utilities to figure out mechanisms that would allo…”
Atkinson: Existing tech can identify individual homes from meter data alone
“There's already pretty good technology around being able to identify individual houses by looking at their meter data.”
Atkinson: Only 150 of 3,000 US utilities are investor-owned
“Within the U.S., there's about 3000 utilities overall, and of those, about a 150 are the investor-owned utilities that most people are familiar with, like PG&E, or ComEd, or ConEd, or whoever. The remaining 2850 or so are Primarily publicly owned utilities, an…”
Atkinson: Kit Carson Co-op will achieve 100% daytime solar in 2022
“Kit Carson Electric Cooperative that serves the area around Taos in New Mexico. Set a goal to get to a hundred percent of their daytime energy usage generated from local solar by 2022. And they are, they're making that goal. They're going to be there within a …”
Atkinson: Traditional utility demand response relied on manual phone calls to large customers
“Most utilities have had some form of demand response program in place for, you know, 10, 2030 years, but typically up until now they were really only participated in by very, very large customers because the mechanism actually was calling people on the phone t…”