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Resiliency: How Superstorm Sandy Changed America’s Grid

By Stephen Lacey

Superstorm Sandy was arguably one of the most significant storms in the history of the U.S. power sector. It was not a worst-case scenario. It was not the most expensive. And it was not the deadliest. But a confluence of factors made Sandy into an extraordinary event with a deep and lasting impact on how American utilities think about the future of the electric grid.

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FERC’s Demand Response Strategy Hits a Snag: D.C. Circuit Vacates Order 745 in Electric Power Supply Association v. FERC

By Sharon_B_Jacobs Demand response is the reduction of electricity use in response to a price signal. In other words, customers are paid not to consume energy. Demand response has been called the sale of “negawatts,” although the phrase is an imperfect description of the actual transaction.

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Source: The Energy Collective

E.L. James Among First UK Model S Owners

By Christopher DeMorro

Originally posted on Gas2.org

Fifty Shades of Grey writer E.L. James was among the first U.K. buyers of the right-hand driver version of the Tesla Model S. Thanks to its long range and the small size of the U.K., Model S owners can get from one side of the country to the other with just a single Supercharger stop.

Trasnport Evolvedreports that E.L. James was among the…