Latest ACORE report focuses on utilities

June 25, 2014 | By

The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) has released a report exploring key issues, and providing recommendations related to evolving utility and other business models for renewable energy.

The report, Evolving Business Models for Renewable Energy, supports ACORE's goal of creating bridges between the renewable energy and utility sectors with sections on "Renewable Energy Drivers of Change and Overview of Actions from the Utility Perspective" and "Distributed Energy: Understanding and Mitigating Commercial and Regulatory Risks."

The focus on utilities is essential.

"The utility sector is well aware of the disruptive nature of distributed renewable energy. ACORE is focused on making this disruption an opportunity for utilities, not a threat," said James Hewett, ACORE's Power Generation & Infrastructure lead, "[which is] essential to the success of all."

The report describes suggested outcomes for the successful integration of renewable energy at scale and spotlights ways in which concentrated solar power (CSP) and electric vehicles (EV) are changing the way utilities look at generation, integration and storage.

"Our Power Generation and Infrastructure Initiative has always focused on solutions over politics," said ACORE CEO Michael Brower. "By convening our members who are developers, legal experts, sector analysts and financiers to review the business landscape, we guarantee a highly credible, critical and realistic view to help craft solutions for a cleaner, more reliable power sector future."

For more:
- see this report

 

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