L R AS Published on Monday 28 November 2016 - n° 170 - Categories:electricity companies, French companies
EDF and RTE are under attack by new digital and renewable energy companies
Even in France, EDF and RTE are under attack by new companies from the digital and renewable energy sectors, which are imposing themselves as electricity troublemakers. They are reinventing electricity supply or tackling system inefficiencies. These new players are riding the wave that is taking the world of electricity to new horizons.
L R AS Published on Friday 14 October 2016 - n° 164 - Categories:electricity companies
Arizona Public Service (APS) has become the first company outside California to reach a solar capacity of 1 GW
The Arizona Public Service (APS) became the first company outside California to achieve 1 GW of solar capacity, either through direct ownership or through projects in which it holds power supply contracts. APS holds half of this GW in ground-based power plants and half in solar rooftop plants. This cost 2 billion dollars.
PV Magazine of 11 October 2016
AS Published on Saturday 18 June 2016 - n° 152 - Categories:electricity companies
US utilities face a changing world
A growing number of leaders in the U.S. electrical industry agree that it is only a matter of time before renewable energy resources dominate their grids. In California, 30% of electricity comes from renewables, and even 50% on some days. Now companies need to see their grids as a renewable energy-based system, complemented by something else!
AS Published on Sunday 3 April 2016 - n° 141 - Categories:electricity companies
Ways to maintain the medium-term activity of electricity companies
U.S. utilities can no longer ignore the preferences of new consumers who want more options and choices. A recent survey of residential customers, conducted by E Source, found that 80% of respondents want policy makers to encourage the public to
AS Published on Sunday 14 February 2016 - n° 134 - Categories:electricity companies
Distributed facilities are not a threat to the sustainability of companies provided that new technologies are examined both inside and outside the traditional energy sector.
At the Distributech conference in the United States, energy sector players explored the future of their business.
It emerged from the conference that distributed facilities are not a threat to the sustainability of companies provided that new technologies are examined both within and outside the traditional energy sector. Many technologies are applicable to the local network to create a more dynamic network such as multi-directional flow management, consumer involvement, etc. This has repercussions on energy sellers, regulators and consumers, who are led to change their attitude.
L R AS Published on Wednesday 30 September 2015 - n° 128 - Categories:electricity companies
Endesa buys electricity at auction in Spain
The Spanish electricity company Endesa has just bought on the Iberian energy futures market (OMIP) the equivalent of 1.2 GWp of generation,