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At The Grid-Edge: Utilities look beyond traditional infrastructure to manage new technologies

By Paige Davis posted 06-19-2017 16:48

  

Robert Walton, Utility Dive
March 29, 2017

Summary

Rate-based cloud software and capitalized network costs represent a brave new world for the power sector.

Utility investments used to be pretty simple: power plants and electric wires. In a nutshell, that was the ratebase of a regulated utility.

Just as the industry is undergoing rapid changes, so are the investments utilities are making. Some, on the fuel side, have been less than successful: Florida Power & Light's investment in natural gas development initially lost money for customers. Others have been blocked: Eversource Energy and National Grid abandoned Spectra Energy's proposed Northeast Access pipeline after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled utilities could not charge customers to develop the line.

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