While renewable energy and distributed generation has and will likely continue to grow, state policies have a significant effect on adoption rates. Renewable portfolio standards and tax credits could continue to encourage penetration of these technologies. Customers cite energy independence and...

While the sharing economy has mostly focused on tangible assets or facilitating labor transactions, the potential to incorporate sharing—in the form of changes to behavior that create societal good—requires a different construct for electricity: one focused on an intangible asset,...

It is evident that corruption has infected energy policy and programs at all levels of American government, and that the state regulation of investor-owned utilities has failed to mandate activities that are in the public interest. While there are multiple examples of this, this paper focuses on...

As the United States attempts to increase the percentage of no- and low-carbon electricity sources in the fuel mix, one consideration is whether these sources are more expensive or are capable of being competitive in the market without subsidies. This article explores the types of subsidies that...