Clean Energy

Achieving a Low Carbon Future

The energy industry is being re-shaped by today’s movement to a low carbon future. More and more, policy and market drivers are increasingly pushing cleaner fuels and technologies to the forefront of the strategic choices related to electricity generation and energy efficient consumption. For companies along the entire electric utility value chain, clean energy is no longer a matter of being “green” – it is a matter of understanding and embracing the potential of clean energy, formulating an effective business strategy, and transforming the company’s operating model in order to capture the opportunities and manage the risks brought about by the clean energy movement.

Perspectives

Ten Solar Resolutions for the New Year

In this January 2012 article published in ElectroIQ, Navigant’s Paula Mints reflects on the ups and downs of the solar industry in 2011.

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PV Market Analysis: Mid-2011 Pause for Reflection -- Just Don't Pause for Long

In this article published in August 2011 by Renewable Energy World Magazine, Navigant’s Paula Mints provides a mid-year snapshot of the PV industry.

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How Will Solar Manufacturing Evolve in the U.S.?

Navigant Associate Director, Graham Stevens, discusses the future of U.S.-based solar manufacturing in light of the White House call for increased domestic production.

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Harsh Realities at the Solar Praxis Solar Industry Summit

Navigant Energy Director Paula Mints recaps the May 12-13, 2011 Solar Praxis UK conference held in London. Attendees got a harsh dose of reality during the opening sessions. The regal Grand Connaught Rooms in London was well attended at over 200 people, all looking for ways to turn recent industry bad news into future opportunities.

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The Stratification of the Grid-Connected Solar Industry

In an April 2011 article for PennEnergy, Navigant’s Paula Mints discusses the development of today’s grid-connected solar industry – from its initial slow growth to sudden popularity.

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Solar Photovoltaic & Distributed Generation - Studies at the Forefront of Grid Operational Impact

Navigant conducts a distribution study to identify the technical and economic impacts of small PV and small wind generation on NV Energy’s distribution system.

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Solar and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Navigant’s Paula Mints outlines the unintended consequences feed-in tariff incentives in the PV market in her September 7, 2011 article published on PhotovoltaicsWorld.com.

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Reality Check: The Changing World of PV Manufacturing

Navigant Director, Paula Mints, discusses the changing world of PV manufacturing in an October 2011 article published by ElectroIQ.com.

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Integrating DSM and Supply-Side Options – The Business Disconnect

Navigant Managing Director Daniel Violette and Tucson Electric Power’s Denise Richerson-Smith discuss the challenges facing demand side management as the industry works to meet expanded goals for energy efficiency and demand response.

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Large-Scale PV Integration Study

Navigant experts prepared a Large Scale PV-integration Study that quantifies the impact of variable PV generation output on NV Energy’s system operations, including balancing reserve requirements, and the ability of the existing generation fleet to accommodate increasing amounts of large-scale PV and distributed generation.

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Exciting week at Intersolar North America, and a lecture

Navigant’s Paula Mints recaps this years’ InterSolar North America Conference and provides insight to the global solar technology suppliers (including China’s status as the leading manufacturer of solar technology globally).

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Intersolar EU: Updating solar trends across Europe

Navigant’s Paula Mints, analyzes the emerging European energy industry trends resulting from the more than 2,200 companies at Intersolar Munich, the original solar trade show.

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Selling Solar Futures: The Commodity vs. Product Debate

In a May 2011 article published in Photovoltaics World, Navigant Director Paula Mints addresses the sale of solar futures and the age-old commodity vs. product debate.

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The Time for (Behavior) Change is Now

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis of successful behavior change programs in the energy industry as well as in other fields.

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Solyndra shuts down, and woe is US

On August 31, 2011 Solyndra announced that effective immediately the company will suspend manufacturing and will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. With the news of a publically funded solar company failing, Navigant principal analyst Paula Mints is concerned that PV manufacturing facts will be overshadowed.

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Solar and the Law of Unintended Consequences

In this September 2011 article published in ElectroIQ, lead analyst for Navigant’s Solar Services Program takes a look at some pertinent unintended consequences in the solar industry.

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The Clean Energy Relay Race

Managing Director, and leader of Navigant’s Energy Practice, Bill Dickenson, responds to the National Journal’s Energy blog question, “Is the U.S. Losing the Clean Energy Race?”

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Experts

Daniel R. Bradley

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Kevin Cooney

Kevin Cooney, a Managing director in the Energy practice, is a registered professional engineer, and has 20+ yrs experience in energy efficiency program design and evaluation, market assessment, and technology evaluation.

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Lisa Frantzis

Lisa Frantzis is a Managing Director for Renewable and Distributed Energy at Navigant. She has 30 years of experience in managing extensive technical, market, and economic analyses of renewable energy systems. Her clients include policy makers, equipment manufacturers, oil companies, developers, utility companies, environmental groups, investors, and government agencies.

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Dave Kleinschmidt

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Laurie Oppel

Ms. Oppel leads the Power Systems, Markets, and Pricing segment of the Energy practice. Her expertise includes transmission pricing and tariff development, energy market pricing, interconnection contract development and negotiation, transmission planning and design, and T&D system operations. She is located in Washington, DC