Energy Exchange

By Casey Horan

Projected electric load demand is increasing at a rate not seen for decades, creating new and unique challenges for utilities. While most headlines focus on the demand from data centers, electric vehicles and electrified buildings are also driving grid upgrade needs — especially at the distribution level. To accommodate load growth quickly and cost-effectively, some utilities are beginning to design and implement flexible interconnection programs. These programs allow customers to connect to the grid in a manner that balances existing infrastructure capacity with new energy demands. Flexible interconnections help utilities manage grid stress by limiting customers’ peak load, offering partial service temporarily or long-term when full interconnection is not yet feasible.

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Canada’s leadership on climate change has helped foster and grow the methane mitigation industry into an economic engine. New regulations can help this economic sector continue to grow and create good Canadian jobs. 

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In the last two years, Texas has made over $100 million available in incentives for zero-emission trucks and buses. With incentive programs at the federal level uncertain, Texas has quietly but confidently become a leader in the clean truck industry. Texas’ light-touch approach to regulation allows it to move at the industry’s pace, focusing on incentives and policies that support Texas businesses and drive forward new ideas that bolster the state’s diverse economy.

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For a dozen years, study after scientific study has documented the vast amount of methane released to the atmosphere by oil and gas operations worldwide. Faced with mounting data, both producers and regulators have slowly but steadily ramped up efforts to cut these emissions, which are both a waste of natural resources and a powerful climate pollutant.

Until now, emphasis has largely been on chasing down large emissions sources, sometimes called super-emitters. After all, why not go after the biggest fish first? What’s more, big leaks are easier to find. But a new study led by EDF scientists builds an integrated analysis of measurement-based data spanning a range of emitting facilities across multiple US oil and gas basins calls this assumption into question.

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by Ritesh Gautam and James Williams

Efforts to locate, measure and reduce the planet-warming methane emissions from global oil and gas operations often focus on large, concentrated sources. But a growing body of research suggests that by not tracking smaller, dispersed sources, regulators, operators and scientists are missing a significant share of the emissions problem.

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