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Power Lunch: Redefining Utilities in the Distributed Era

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Travis Bradford

Electric utilities and their regulatory structures were built for the previous generation of large generators that pushed that energy to grid customers. It¿s increasingly obvious that this structure is inadequate to incorporate emerging value-creating options in energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation ¿ collectively known as Distributed Energy (¿DE¿). These solutions create both costs and benefits to the utilities and their ratepayers. Defining these is creating new battlegrounds over net-metering, payment mechanisms for demand response, and rate cases. Travis Bradford, president and founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, will examine how we must redefine this social contract between utilities and DE providers in a way that is fair to all parties and allows for capturing the value of these DE interventions, where available.EVENT IS IN GROSS HALL 102, Center for Sustainability and Commerce. Lunch will be served. No reservation required.Co-sponsored by the Duke University Energy Initiative and Fuqua School MBA Energy Club