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What’s your utility doing for customers, employees, and your community during COVID-19?
Joy Herbers | April 10, 2020
We’re tracking utilities’ responses to COVID-19. You’ve been doing a lot to communicate with, protect, and support your customers, employees, and community. You’re moving fast and we’re missing some admirable efforts. Add your goodwill to this public spreadsheet. And see what your peers are doing.
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Decarbonization: The defining utility trend of the next decade?
Luke Currin, Essie Snell | March 11, 2020
Over the past three years, states, provinces, cities, and utilities across the US and Canada have made bold commitments to address carbon emissions. As of March 2020, more than 20 utilities in the US have announced they’ll supply their customers with carbon-free or net-zero-carbon energy by 2050.
Newsletter
E Source adds predictive data science expertise through acquisition of TROVE
Sannie Sieper | February 11, 2020
This press release announces the E Source acquisition of TROVE Predictive Data Science, which delivers data-driven artificial intelligence solutions for utilities’ customer- and infrastructure-related challenges.
Press release
What does the future of the utility industry look like?
Wayne Greenberg | December 11, 2019
At the 2019 E Source Forum, we tackled some of the biggest issues facing utilities today, and we invited a few big names to the stage to share their views and, hopefully, spur our utility audience to action with an eye toward the future.
Newsletter
Stop calling electric vehicle rates “time of use”
Steven Day, Arthi Padmanabhan | March 5, 2020
We found that utilities and customers like electric vehicle (EV) time-of-use (TOU) rates, but customers don't like the phrase "time of use." In this e-book we summarize our research on TOU rates and customers’ perceptions of them. We also tell you how to improve your TOU rate.
Ebook
Designing incentives and technology roadmaps for beneficial electrification
Ryan Odell | December 3, 2019
You've heard about the benefits of electrification to utilities, customers, and the environment. Now join us for the second web conference in our two-part series to learn about the incentives, economic tests, and technologies that can support your beneficial-electrification efforts.
Online event
Transportation electrification: Are you missing the boat?
Bryan Jungers | December 24, 2019
EVs are here, but it could be decades before they dominate the market. Your utility can—and should—promote EV purchases among your customers, but what else can you do to drive transportation electrification in your territory?
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From poles and wires to AI and VR
Essie Snell | November 21, 2019
We used this session to get key insights from major players in the tech space. We learned how Google and Microsoft are thinking about the energy industry and heard about developments that are poised to change the utility sector. After, we asked our speakers a few questions to learn even more.
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Who cares about climate? Your customers do, and they want you to care too
Bill LeBlanc, Wayne Greenberg | November 21, 2019
In these videos from our 2019 E Source Forum keynote, Yale's Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz discusses climate change trends, knowledge, attitudes, and more. Then, Xcel Energy's Alice Jackson shared why her utility has committed to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and a 100% reduction by 2050.
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