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New Competition for Energy Service Providers: Own-Operate Packaged CHP Deals
January 1, 2005
Very gradually, some owners of commercial buildings are starting to turn away from traditional energy service providers and toward companies that will develop, own, and operate a packaged combined heat and power (CHP) plant at their facility. These companies will sell CHP outputs—in the form of electricity, ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-26 | Author: Jon Slowe
Distributed Energy Global Market Trends: Japan, Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand
November 1, 2003
Distributed energy (DE) continues to solidify its place in energy markets worldwide. Understanding trends in different distributed energy markets will help companies foresee where DE may be headed in their own market and help them take an appropriate stance. In this report, we examine how DE markets ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-23 | Author: Jon Slowe, Christine Hurley, Yasushi Santo
The Reality Behind Home Control
May 1, 2003
This report examines residential energy applications of smart home technologies. “Smart home” and “home control” refers to energy management systems that are linked to HVAC, lighting, and appliances and that offer consumers the ability to remotely control energy use in their home.
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RES-15 | Author: Alexandra Behringer
Persuading Customers to Solve Voltage Sag Problems
December 1, 2002
Utilities are working to increase the reliability of their systems, but when facilities experience voltage sags, it is often most cost-efficient for both the provider and the customer if those problems are corrected inside the facility. But how can a utility persuade its customers to “own” their ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-12 | Author: Dave Mueller, Charlotte Otero-Goodwin
Examples of Utility-Offered Power Quality Consulting Services
October 1, 2002
Over the past few years, many utilities have started offering power quality consulting and facility auditing services to their large commercial and industrial customers. This report examines the success of some of these programs and analyzes some of the industry trends in offering PQ consulting and auditing ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-11 | Author: Melissa Tuck
Moving Beyond Pilot Projects: Utility Business Models for Distributed Energy
July 1, 2002
The market conditions for distributed generation have drastically changed in the past year, but distributed generation still has a role in helping utilities profitably meet customer needs. In this report we examine some of the most common and some of the most creative business models for regulated utilities ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-19 | Author: Christine Hurley
Economic Evaluation Tools for Distributed Generation
December 1, 2001
Back-of-the-envelope cost calculations are insufficient for any more than a single, simple distributed generation project. E source has identified nearly a dozen software or Web-based tools that help evaluate the economics and perform feasibility studies for distributed generation. These tools range ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-16 | Author: Christine Hurley
Voluntary Load Curtailment Systems for Win-Win Load Control (EIC-13)
December 1, 2000
More and more large electrical energy users are selling power they don’t need at the moment back to their utilities during a power shortage, often for a price 20 or 30 times what they pay for it. It’s called voluntary load curtailment, and everyone seems to be winning with it. This report examines ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: EIC-13 | Author: Dick Montague
Dynamic Market Opportunities and Barriers for Standby Generators
December 1, 2000
Distributed energy is increasingly being used by utilities and independent companies as a means to meet peak demand and to provide profit in energy, delivery, and ancillary service markets. This report provides an overview of the issues that are driving the use of distributed energy, such as price volatility ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-13 | Author: Joan Gregerson
Renewable Technologies for Green Electricity Programs
May 1, 2000
Shopping for green generation? The available renewable technologies vary widely in cost, consumer perception, technical performance, and political appeal. This report looks at the pros and cons of wind, photovoltaics, hydropower, landfill methane, and biomass. Although there is no one best technology, ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: GE-4 | Author: Paul Komor
Optimal Deployment of Reliability Investments
April 1, 2000
Managing distribution system reliability and power quality has never been an easy job, but with the ever-increasing likelihood of getting sued for damages caused by power supply problems, and even the prospect of having one’s career end prematurely due to an embarrassing supply interruption, utility ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-6 | Author: Richard Brown, William Howe
Strategic Market Assessment for Distributed Energy: Scenarios from a Venture Capitalist
March 1, 2000
Past efforts to scope out the size of distributed energy markets have failed to accurately portray just how much and how fast markets will develop. This report reviews past efforts to size the market, explains why such efforts failed, and employs a scenario approach to anticipate future market developments ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-10 | Author: Dominic Geraghty
U.S. Utility Appliance Repair Services: Update 1999
October 1, 1999
This update of our 1997 report reveals that the appliance repair services market has continued to mature and that the most successful utilities are those whose programs have been around the longest. We look at how to structure and administer the service, what appliances to offer, what to charge, market ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RES-4 | Author: Brendan Kiernan, Karen George
Active Harmonics Cancellation: New Technologies Portend a Market Revolution
November 1, 1998
New competitors are entering the harmonics-mitigation market with innovative active harmonics filters. Capable of continuously sensing and canceling electrical current harmonics, these flexible technologies promise to revolutionize the way harmonics are treated in commercial and industrial facilities. ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-1 | Author: William Howe
Dynamic Pricing and the Future of Distributed Generation
September 1, 1998
Although it is too early to say how dynamic pricing in a restructured U.S. energy marketplace will affect the economics of distributed generation, it appears that distributed generators may find their largest opportunity in displacing purchases of conventional network power, particularly as price volatility ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-4 | Author: David Armstrong, Laurence Kirsch, Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait
Automated Customer Communications: Services, Technologies, Players, and Implications
June 1, 1998
The penetration of basic AMR is increasing in the residential sector, but energy service providers would do well to focus on the commercial and industrial markets. Participation in direct access requires that these end users have interval or real-time meters and AMR for pricing and settlement.
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: EIC-3 | Author: Andrew Colman
Selling Distributed Generation: What Buyers Want
June 1, 1998
Companies have invested billions of dollars developing microturbines, fuel cells, and Stirling engines to be used for distributed generation. But most commercial and light industrial energy users in North America have minimal interest in—and little knowledge about—these new technologies. Lessons ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-2 | Author: Nicholas Lenssen, Joel Davidow
Distributed Generation: Markets and Technologies in Transition
December 1, 1997
The development and commercialization of small power plants is quickly gathering momentum. Two microturbine manufacturers are accepting commercial orders, as is one fuel cell company. More than two dozen companies in the U.S. alone are poised to commercialize new small power plant technologies, including ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-1 | Author: Gerald Cler, Nicholas Lenssen
