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Residential Products and Services Survey: Summary Report
August 12, 2010
Do you wish you knew which of your products, services, and programs your customers are most enthusiastic about? We’ve taken results from a survey of over 32,000 residential U.S. customers and filtered it to just what you want to know.
Content type: Service Report | Document ID: RES-25-ProdServ1 | Author: Ethan Brown and Bill LeBlanc
Residential Appliance and Equipment Survey: Summary Report
August 12, 2010
Did you ever wonder what appliances your customers have in their homes? How many TVs or computers do they have, and what kind? We’ve mined a survey of more than 32,000 U.S. residential customers to give you the answers you need to make the best business decisions for your end users.
Content type: Service Report | Document ID: RES-24-AppSat1 | Author: Ethan Brown
Renewable Power Outlook 2005
February 1, 2005
2004 was a tumultuous year for the renewable power industry. The federal production tax credit for wind was first delayed and then extended and even broadened across a greater number of technologies. Also, new renewable portfolio standard laws were enacted in Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-7 | Author: Jack Ihle
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
Clever Chilling: Packaged Combined Cooling and Power
August 1, 2004
Combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP)—a technique that uses the exhaust heat from distributed generation (DG) prime movers to run a chiller—is a compelling idea with the potential to greatly advance DG markets worldwide. Part of CCHP’s attraction is its ability to meet coinciding peak cooling ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-24 | Author: Christine Brinker
Emerging Technologies for Bulk Energy Storage
July 1, 2004
There are a small number of emerging bulk energy storage technologies that hold varying degrees of promise in applications ranging from protection against very short duration power quality events to peak shaving and energy arbitrage. In our second annual report, we focus on the developmental status and ...
Content type: Core Report, Service Report | Document ID: ET-2 | Author: Dan Greenberg, Kristin Kamm, Ira Krepchin
Coal-Wind Integration: Strange Bedfellows May Provide a New Supply Option
December 1, 2003
Reductions in the cost of wind power and improvements in the operating characteristics of coal-fired generators have opened the door to the possibility of co-locating baseload coal-fired generators with intermittent wind turbines. For these projects, the coal plants would be dispatched so as to guarantee ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-3 | Author: Jack Ihle
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
New Opportunities for Midsize Cogeneration
October 1, 2003
This report shines some light on when midsize (200 kW to 5 MW) applications of combined heating and power in industrial, commercial, or institutional facilities deserve a closer look. It will also help guide energy managers through a screening process to separate out promising projects from likely losers ...
Content type: ESCD Report, Research, Service Report | Document ID: CEMC-5 | Author: Neil Kolwey, Arthur Venables
Some Highlights From the 6th Annual E Source Distributed Energy Summit, July 7-8 Webcast
July 1, 2003
The 6th Annual E Source Distributed Energy Summit featured an array of speakers from many areas of the industry to cover distributed energy from a variety of perspectives. The speakers' general consensus on distributed energy (DE) was one of long-term optimism. There was agreement that ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-23 | Author: David Van Holde, Christine Hurley
Cleaner Diesels: Not Just Smoke and Mirrors
June 1, 2003
Diesel engines still dominate sales of distributed generation. In the past year, 85 percent of all engines sold between 1 and 10 megawatts were diesel-fueled. But due to tight air-quality restrictions, most can only run a few hours per year. We identify engine emissions solutions that are clean enough ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-22 | Author: Gerald Cler, David Van Holde
Testing Industrial Control Equipment for Voltage Sag Sensitivity
May 1, 2003
Voltage sags are some of the most common types of power quality disturbances and can cause industrial control devices to fail. Because equipment trips of these widely applied devices can be devastating, the Power Quality Group undertook a testing project to evaluate sag performance for a variety of industrial ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQG-2 | Author: Tom Grebe, Jeffrey Lamoree, Mark McGranaghan, David Mueller, Sandy Smith
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
Biogas: A Growing Niche for Distributed Generation
May 1, 2003
Biogas is a cost-effective application for distributed generation with the likelihood of continued growth. We examine biogas from landfills, wastewater treatment plants, livestock operations, organic industrial wastes, separated municipal solid wastes, and gasification of biomass. For each source, we ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-21 | Author: Jon Slowe, Christine Hurley
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
Maintenance Options for Distributed Generation
October 1, 2002
For distributed generation to gain wide popularity, the equipment must provide high availability with relatively low operation and maintenance costs, and developers must be able to accurately predict those costs. Currently, there is a lack of accurate data available on maintenance costs associated with ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-20 | Author: Ken Wicker
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
Liquid Electricity: Flow Batteries Expand Large-Scale Energy Storage Market
June 1, 2002
Flow batteries are being commercialized and are attracting interest from the power business. Excitement about this relatively new electricity storage technology derives from flow batteries’ attributes: they are relatively inexpensive for batteries, highly scalable, and can optimize for either power ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-18 | Author: Chris Lotspeich, Yasushi Santo
High-Temperature Fuel Cells for Stationary Power: A Long, Hot Road to the Promised Product
March 1, 2002
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are two high- temperature technologies that will eventually be providing power for stationary applications. Though they aren’t quite ready for commercial release, developers have had promising results, and some manufacturers are ...
Content type: Service Report | Document ID: DE-17 | Author: Ken Wicker
The Skinny on Distribution Automation
March 1, 2002
Although distribution automation offers many advantages and has recently seen improvements in functions and communication abilities, opinions differ on whether distribution automation provides the return on investment necessary to pursue it. E source looks at a number of successful distribution automation ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-5 | Author: Lew Rubin
Wind Energy: Integrating an Intermittent Resource
March 1, 2002
Intermittent energy resources such as wind energy are less valuable in energy markets than dispatchable generation. But determining the proper discounted value is still far from a science, despite improving wind forecasting technology and increased system operator experience. This report explores the ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: GE-10 | Author: Eric Hirst, Adam Capage
Living with Distributed Generation: Avoiding Power Quality Problems
February 1, 2002
Many in the electric and gas utility industries are watching distributed generation (DG) technologies—microturbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, and others—with great interest. As these technologies enter the market, increasing attention is being drawn to developing guidelines for integrating distributed ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-10 | Author: Thomas McDermott
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
Metering by Power Line Communication
December 1, 2001
Using power lines for utility metering is attractive because they’re already in place, they’re connected to every meter, and they’re owned and controlled by the utility. However, they’re also plagued with electrical noise and often present an unfriendly environment for data communications.
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: EIC-17 | Author: Dick Montague
Strategies for Aging Distribution Infrastructure
November 1, 2001
Aging electric distribution infrastructure presents managerial, budgetary, and performance challenges that could potentially strain the most cost-efficient utility. Many traditional planning, operating, and managerial prioritization methods still in use today by electric utilities are incompatible with ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-4 | Author: Ron Davis, Kristen Bertolone
Power Quality Monitoring with Integrated Power Quality/Revenue Meters
October 1, 2001
Typically, information regarding the quality of power delivered to utility customers either is unavailable or can only be collected at a relatively high cost using special-purpose PQ monitoring technology. However, a new class of meters is available that not only performs all the usual revenue metering ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: PQ-9 | Author: Charlotte Otero-Goodwin
The Way Forward—Distributed Energy in Europe
September 1, 2001
Bernd Kohlstruck, managing director of Alstom-Ballard, told a European distributed energy (DE) business audience in mid-2001 that, "Alstom, ABB, Siemens and others all see the future as likely to be decentralized, with lots of technology options and the need for intelligent energy management and control ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: EUDE-3 | Author: Stewart Boyle
The Heat Is On: What's Cookin' with Large DG
September 1, 2001
Media coverage of distributed generation tends to focus on small and glamorous technologies such as fuel cells and microturbines of less than 100 kilowatts. For now, however, most developers are installing larger and more prosaic reciprocating engines and combustion turbines. What are the characteristics ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: DE-15 | Author: Joan Gregerson, David Van Holde
Internet Metering of Commercial and Industrial Users: Ready or Not?
July 1, 2001
We look at the promises, problems, and prospects of Internet metering from the point of view of energy service providers and commercial and industrial energy users.
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: EIC-15 | Author: Dick Montague
