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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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California Won’t Touch Wildfire Budgets in Behind-the-Meter Battery Incentive Shift

GreenTechMedia

California regulators plan to address pleas from stakeholders in the energy storage industry to free up money for the state’s behind-the-meter battery incentive program, directing an additional $108.5 billion available through 2024 to cover part of the costs of installing batteries at homes and businesses.

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Half of Britain’s meters smart by end of 2021

Smart Energy International

million smart or advanced meters were in place at homes and small businesses in Britain at the end of 2021, the government has reported. million smart meters were installed in the rollout, amounting to a 7% increase, the majority by the large suppliers. Of the smart and advanced meter base, almost 85% – 23.6

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Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

GreenTechMedia

Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Not quite full resilience.

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Oregon’s PacWave Aims to Jump-Start US Marine Energy Market

GreenTechMedia

Salty seawater, gale-force winds and relentless, punishing waves resist entrepreneurs’ determination to install power-generating devices in the water. The scale of that challenge is reflected in the marine energy industry's poor track record to date. Department of Energy (DOE) and $3.8 Department of Energy.

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These Are the Benefits of Going Solar at Home

The Environmental Blog

This includes reducing your monthly energy costs. Keep reading to discover insight into the reason you should make the shift to solar panels for your home so that you can save money while helping to save the planet. Reduce Energy Costs. And best of all, the energy from the sun is totally free.

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DISTRIBUTECH International announces Host Utility, partnerships to support navigation of the energy transition

Renewable Energy World

DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event, is pleased to announce its Host Utility Oncor, as well as partnerships with the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), Forth, Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (VGIC), for its 2022 event taking place Jan.