Electricity
Finding Value in the Energy Future: How Utilities Can Collaborate with Low- and Moderate-Income Customers to Do More
Download RMI’s new report, Finding Value in the Energy Future: How Utilities Can Collaborate with Low- and Moderate-Income Customers to Do More. Low- and moderate-income (LMI) customers have historically had troubled relationships with the utility companies that provide them with power. LMI customers and communities pay much higher proportions…
Using Undergrid Minigrids to Drive Development in Thousands of Sub-Saharan African Communities
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of millions of people live “under the grid,” where they are nominally served by a utility but receive little or no power. For example, in Mokoloki community in Ogun State, Nigeria, electricity arrives sporadically; residents can only access power for a few hours at a time,…
Connecting Western Co-op Members With Cost-Effective Clean Energy
If you would like to learn more about the results of this report and receive updates as they become available, please click here. The emergence of very low-cost renewable energy pricing in the United States has created unprecedented opportunities, and some risks, for utilities currently reliant on high-cost, legacy…
Saving Colorado Customers Money with Clean Energy
Xcel Energy’s Colorado Energy Plan, which will be considered by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission this month, has made national news.
How to Plan for a More Distributed Grid, Part Three
This is the third blog in a three-part series. The first and second blogs are available here and here. One of the main themes at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Institute Electricity Innovation Lab (e–Lab) Accelerator event, held in Sundance, Utah, in May, was distributed grid infrastructure—the use of…