
Why Global Solar Demand Will Be Off The Charts
By the end of the decade, the solar industry could be installing 135 gigawatts yearly – more capacity in 12 months than all cumulative installations over the last four decades. The 2020 solar market w...
1 Jul 201543min

A Top Utility Engineer Talks Distributed Energy Integration
This week, we have a taping of the Energy Gang from GTM’s Grid Edge Live conference in San Diego. We’ll talk with Tom Bialek, the chief engineer at San Diego Gas & Electric, about the utility’s landma...
29 Jun 201550min

Is the Republican Party Incapable of Addressing Climate Change?
After Pope Francis issued his strongly worded encyclical on climate change and the environment, many wondered how it would influence skeptical conservatives. It didn’t take long to get an answer. “I d...
19 Jun 201544min

New York's Energy Czar on Transforming the Electricity System
Richard Kauffman has a lot of responsibilities as New York's "energy czar." He oversees multiple agencies and utilities, advises the governor on energy issues, and works closely with regulators in the...
12 Jun 201540min

Are We Measuring Energy Use All Wrong?
We measure energy use with a commodity-based approach -- monitoring electrons, therms and gallons. But is there a better way to gauge the efficiency of the economy? Energy Economist Skip Laitner has b...
5 Jun 201548min

Should Utilities Own the Solar Panels on Your Roof?
Whether the solar industry likes it or not, more regulated utilities in America are going to propose owning residential PV systems themselves. It's a controversial development. At our recent Solar Sum...
26 Mai 201530min

The 21st-Century Power System May Be Closer Than You Think
Discussion about changing utility business models has always been abstract. But with large utilities now getting hit financially by distributed energy, “Utility 2.0” is starting to seem much more real...
21 Mai 201550min

Peak Oil in an Era of Fossil Fuel Abundance
Over the last few years, analysts and academics worried about peak oil have been on the defensive. The fracking revolution has brought an abundance of oil and gas that no one thought possible a decade...
14 Mai 201550min




















