Competitive Challenges

Learn about the competitive challenges and other new developments in the energy and utility industries.

How Elon Might Be Screwing This Up…

November 1, 2016

Just a few days ago, in making the case for the acquisition of Solarcity, Tesla confirmed its long…→

October 31, 2016

In Travis Kavulla’s eyes, there are two types of Republican utility regulators. One is more li…→

October 18, 2016

As with the value of distributed solar before, competing methods of valuing distributed energy reso…→

October 10, 2016

Amber Kinetics, Inc. announces it has signed a landmark, multi-year Energy Storage Agreement (ESA) w…→

September 2, 2016

California lawmakers have passed four bills designed to ramp up the state’s use of energy stor…→

September 1, 2016

Regulators determined that holding contracts does not allow the solar company to represent its custo…→

August 30, 2016

In one of the most blatant examples of the potential challenges that California utilities are facing…→

August 29, 2016

California’s Senate last week passed a measure designed to bring more transparency to the stat…→

August 8, 2016

Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for a regional electricity grid is being put on hold this year, and lawmak…→

July 29, 2016

A California utility is facing a major test with distributed energy resource aggregation. Using sma…→