Roughly one-third of Americans report having a side hustle to supplement their income. Side hustles range from delivery drivers to social media influencers and may soon include something surprising—electricity providers. That’s the promise of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), letting consumers sell their unused energy back to the grid and get compensated for it. A […]
by Micalah Spenrath, Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) began this year by engaging stakeholders on energy efficiency. The pace was ambitious, but now progress has stalled. Through the Energy Efficiency Implementation Project (EEIP), stakeholders participated in biweekly working groups that ran from January through March culminating in a number of recommendations and […]
At $5.5B, Building Efficiency is Largest Market Segment; Wind, Natural Gas, other Electricity Generation Technologies Next Largest at $3.6B AUSTIN – The advanced energy industry is a powerful economic driver in Texas, with an estimated $16 billion in 2014 revenue, according to the first comprehensive analysis of the advanced energy market in the state. Representing […]