Losing power also has real consequences for people’s businesses, livelihoods and potentially their health and safety.
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In an era of climate change and extreme weather, a microgrid — a self-sufficient, energy-generating distribution and control system — puts communities on the path to self-reliance.
Customers, cities and investors are all eager for a piece of PG&E, but it isn’t the only US utility that may have new owners soon.
‘California is America fast-forward,’ writes one scholar. Does that mean that the dystopian infernos that have consumed parts of the state are simply a picture of what awaits the rest of America?
A bankruptcy filing always means there’s not enough money to go around, but the process ensures both debtors and creditors are protected.
While critics accuse companies facing lots of lawsuits of using bankruptcy as a sort of ‘get of jail free card,’ the reality of the legal procedure is more complicated.
The electric utility is seeing rapid changes and threats that affect consumers, from more wind and solar to wildfires. How they react depends in large part on regulators.
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Associate Professor of Law, Emory University
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Manager, Centre for Grid Innovation, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon