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Five to thrive: Key characteristics of great utility customer engagement

Brian Boler | Jun 16, 2015

“The utilities that succeed in educating their residential customers may be [the best positioned not only] to survive, but [also to] thrive in the new customer-centric electricity landscape that is now taking shape.” – 2015 Utility Residential Customer...

Lessons from SEPA’s Utility Solar Conference Part 2: Stop worrying about rooftop solar (start focusing on opportunities)

Mark Liffmann | Jun 4, 2015

For all the talk of utility death spirals, a single graph from GTM Research’s Shayle Kann, presented at the recent Solar Electric Power Association’s (SEPA) annual Utility Solar Conference (USC), should give U.S. utilities significant comfort that residential solar...

Lessons from SEPA’s Utility Solar Conference Part 1: Get electric rates right to fill the belly of the duck

Mark Liffmann | May 21, 2015

The Solar Electric Power Association’s (SEPA) annual Utility Solar Conference (USC) is the premier utility solar conference in the United States, and the in-depth discussions between utility and industry leaders can be counted on to portend where solar is heading. At...

UVIG technical achievement award presented to Tom Hoff

SolarAnywhere Posts | Apr 27, 2015

Last week, the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) recognized Tom Hoff, Clean Power Research founder and president of Research and Consulting, with an award for his ongoing contributions to solar forecasting. The ability to forecast the output of tens...

Connecting 150,000 solar customers to PG&E’s electric grid

Heather Van Schoiack | Mar 26, 2015

This week, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced a major milestone: connection of 150,000 solar customers to their electric grid. This achievement is the result of PG&E’s long commitment to supporting their customers going solar, and comes with some...