Renewing our electricity system creates the ultimate clean energy carrier that will power our passenger cars and light trucks in addition to our buildings. And, thanks to innovation in maturing renewable technologies—like wind turbines and solar photovoltaics—the cost is rapidly becoming competitive with fossil-fuel burning alternatives.
Electricity is the connective tissue of the information age, powering everything from smartphones to giant data centers and enabling virtually every transaction in daily life. READ MORE
Advances in renewable generation technologies, communications and controls, distributed generating technologies, and storage have laid the foundation for a customer-centric electricity system that is renewable, distributed, and resilient. LEARN MORE »
A smarter grid, omnidirectional flows of energy and information, and distributed generators will empower customers and increase adaptability. LEARN MORE »
Integrating pervasive information and demand-side technologies lets customers participate as “prosumers” who both consume and produce energy. LEARN MORE »
Extensive modeling based on market price and performance data suggests that the renewable energy needed to supply 80% or more of all U.S. electricity by 2050—probably all ultimately—can be captured cost-effectively (even without subsidy) and integrated reliably. LEARN MORE »
The emerging electricity system is far more varied, transparent, innovative, and entrepreneurial. LEARN MORE »
The regulatory compact, based on a fair return for providing low-cost, reliable power, must better match profit-making incentives to societal goals LEARN MORE »
View the supporting research from Reinventing Fire. GO »
CLICK HERE FOR OUR METHODOLOGY »
LEARN MORE »
Processing, please wait...