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So what will be the most influential Smart Grid trends in 2013? There’s always the potential for technology breakthroughs – particularly in fixed and mobile energy storage. However, we’re well overdue for gamechanging policies…
Duane Tilden‘s insight:
Here are four policy trends that will gain momentum in 2013:
- Industry attention will focus on transactive energy, which conceptualizes the impacts of widely distributed energy resources on utility business models, technologies/services, markets, and consumers. […]
- … regulators will consider how to influence utilities to act as distribution grid load controllers to accommodate new sources of kilowatts or negawatts without detriments to grid reliability and resiliency. […]
- The energy/water nexus will become a more dominant part of project and technology conversations. […] Natural gas fracking technologies will come under greater scrutiny in terms of the impacts of drilling fluids and practices to the purity of ground and underground water supplies.
- In a rare show of bipartisanship, Congress will allow Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) for renewable energy, which are currently limited to oil and gas investments. […]
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