Daily edition | Jan. 23, 2020 Note from the editor Leading off today's newsletter is our eighth and final 2020 outlook examining rate designs and business models.
All our other outlooks for this year — on coal, gas, renewables, DER, storage, energy efficiency and overall sector trends — are available on this handy roundup page.
How will these developments play out in the year ahead? No doubt we'll have plenty to write about.
 Larry Pearl
Senior Editor, Utility Dive
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Deep Dive Regulators, utilities and stakeholders will pilot simple price signals and work toward agreement on a performance-based framework, but California may be in for a surprise. |
FERC's December order "might have made the process more administrative, more uncertain than it needs to be," a PJM official told stakeholders in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. |
Renewables advocates cheered the announcement but called for earlier coal closures and more specifics on community support, and for state regulators to set a 100% clean energy standard. |
Hyper-personalization drives enterprise analytics, customer experience, and new business models.
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The facility will deliver 400 MW of solar and 1,200 MWh of energy storage to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power at a fixed solar cost under $0.02 per kilowatt-hour. |
The proposed legislation would also temporarily suspend the state's renewable portfolio standard so that utilities could focus investments on infrastructure and vegetation management. |
NYISO CEO Rich Dewey says a carbon price is the most effective way to help the state meet its environmental goals, but it is unclear how a decision will be made to move forward. |
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's announcement precedes anticipated comprehensive legislation that will drive the goal. |
Opinion Significant work remains to integrate state decarbonization policies into the ISO New England and its wholesale markets, the author writes. |
Deep Dive The U.S. Department of Energy's appliance standards program turned into a policy lightning rod in 2019. Experts anticipate more of the same. |
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