Sentences with phrase «traditional utility regulation»

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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.

We will examine how public utility regulation and environmental law have traditionally balanced cost, reliability and environmental performance in the electric generation mix, and how that balance is changing as (i) wholesale electricity markets (and some retail markets) have come to rely more on competition and market pricing of electricity, and (ii) renewable generation replaces more traditional, dispatchable resources.

One is to have big utility - scale units that are sitting out like traditional generators that provide regulation and different services to the grid.