Energy Industry Update Archive

ScottMadden’s spring 2024 edition of the Energy Industry Update, is themed “The Distance,” which reflects time and effort (i) to get new non-emitting energy technologies to commercialization (long-duration storage, next-generation geothermal), (ii) to improve regional transmission planning and get transmission projects under way (FERC orders), (iii) to reconfigure (if feasible) power generation or to preserve resources as long as possible for reliability (EPA greenhouse gas regulations), and (iv) to implement effective programs for affordability (low-income energy affordability).

This Energy Industry Update examines recent trends in the utility and energy industry, where stakeholders are waiting for new technologies to emerge to support energy transition and virtual power plants, or for the results of various regulatory initiatives relating to power plants, the grid, and gas-power coordination to be seen. In all of these cases, the “waiting” is indeed the hardest part for energy infrastructure development.

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) examines the state of the utility and energy industry broadly and those areas where we “just can’t get enough” or would certainly like more—such as adequate energy resources to serve load during each hour of the year, or coordination of processes, approaches, and assumptions for planning, or enough financial returns in a rising cost environment.

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) examines the infrastructure investment needed to enable the clean energy transition and the way money is flowing through the system to pay for it.

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) examines how the combination of rising post-pandemic energy demand, ambitious decarbonization targets, high commodity prices, and geopolitical events are combining to put pressure on the global energy industry.

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) examines how the industry has made substantial progress in developing and deploying low greenhouse gas-emitting energy and technologies, but there is still significant work to be done.

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) examines how many energy industry stakeholders are now shifting their focus from “whether” to “how.”

This Energy Industry Update (EIU) explores how in the midst of and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic many efforts in the energy industry can feel like running uphill.

This Energy Industry Update explores how the energy industry could be “taken to the limit” by long-term trends and challenging business-as-usual approaches.