Sentences with phrase «traditional utility business»
EEI was recently exposed in the Washington Post for launching a plan to attack rooftop solar because the competition threatens the traditional utility business model.
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While these new business models challenge the traditional large energy utilities, many of those such as ENEL Green Power, Iberdrola and ENGIE, said they too were pursuing similar innovations.
Why traditional utilities are like frogs in warming water» Jim Rogers, the recently retired head of Duke Energy, the biggest utility in the US, says regulations and business models will not change quick enough to save traditional utilities in face of solar.
As America's electric utilities began to understand that solar and wind power could undercut their traditional business, they began engaging in the same kind of behavior.
PDF] The report illustrates that «threats posed to the electric utility industry from disruptive forces, particularly distributed resources, have serious long - term implications for the traditional electric utility business model and investor.»
The Arizona campaign appears to be the first assault on net metering policies from the utility industry, which is desperately seeking to maintain its dominance as distributed generation erodes the utility's traditional business monopoly.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recently released a model resolution calling for the weakening of solar net metering policies that threaten the traditional utility industry business model.
PDF) entitled «Disruptive Challenges» in January 2013, outlining the threat that distributed energy generation presents to the traditional utility industry business model of selling electricity from large, centralized, mostly fossil fuel power plants.
The traditional regulated utility business model allows for generation and distribution, but as more grid - connected rooftop solar (and other Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) sources) come on line, the utility will not be getting as much revenue for generation, yet still has to maintain and upgrade on the grid distribution side.