The Price is Right? Demand response on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court recently heard legal arguments on the fate of FERC Order 745, one of the most highly contested cases on electric utility regulation to come before the High Court in years, if not decades. Order 745 is the controversial ruling, issued in March 2011 by...Report: Texas Demand Response Issues Mirrors FERC 745 Debate
Utility DIVE, November 2015 In Texas, with the country’s only organized market without federal oversight (ERCOT exists totally within the state’s boundaries), one would think that developing a demand response market would be simpler. Not so, according to...Texas Saga: The Value of Demand Response
SmartGridNews.com, November 2015 A new report from SPEER, “The Debate About Demand Response and Wholesale Electricity Markets,” while focusing on the ERCOT market serving most of Texas, addresses the same challenging issues recently heard before the...News Release: Texas Jumps 8 spots in ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
Texas had the largest improvement of any state in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 9th State Energy Efficiency Scorecard released today and SPEER was cited in the report as a catalyst for the rapid improvement. The Lone Star State jumped 8 positions to 26th and reversed a consistently downward trend, from 11th in 2007’s initial assessment to 34th last year.
SPEER provides overview on energy efficiency in the Clean Power Plan
Last week, the EPA released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, the regulation for carbon emissions from existing power plants. While the final version is more stringent nationally than the draft version, for the two states in which SPEER works, the final rule is less stringent, reducing the final emissions levels by 15% for Texas and by 10% for Oklahoma compared to the draft rule.