Improvements in efficiency have allowed the financial health of utilities in many jurisdictions to be decoupled from the quantity of electricity sold, edging some utilities away from a commodity-based business model. As the demand curve plateaus described below , it will be increasingly important to reward utilities for generating more electricity with less.
Thus far electricity providers have not been systematically rewarded for investments in efficiency in the same way as they have been for increasing generation capacity. Now, however, several major trends are converging to accelerate potentially far more existential changes with wide-ranging implications.
First, over the next several decades the real price of electricity will rise in stark contrast to the past 50 years where the real price of electricity has been flat. For example, the annual capital expenditures of U. Second, rising costs are occurring against a flat to declining demand for electricity. The U. Energy Information Administration forecasts that electricity demand will increase just 0. Slower economic growth and the accelerated deployment of energy efficiency programs, codes and standards, and demand response are flattening demand.
At the same time, the structure of demand is changing with the enormous increase in information and communications technologies. Fourth, the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Sandy, is forcing utilities to spend more on grid resiliency and reliability. Given these trends, utilities are working to optimize the grid, deploy sensors across the grid, manage around problem areas, and create a more flexible grid.
Fifth, rising costs, flat demand and increasing concerns related to the integrity, security, and resiliency of the grid mentioned above are occurring as the costs of solar and wind technologies decline and policy support for renewable energy has increased. These trends are driving greater interest in distributed energy resources DER , a combination of various distributed sources of power production, energy storage, and demand-side resources.
Proponents of DER and greater decentralization tout an array of benefits including improved efficiency of the distribution system, reduced strain on the grid during peak demand periods, providing back-up generation to improve system reliability, offsetting costs of new or upgraded transmission and generation assets, reducing environmental impacts of power generation, decreasing the vulnerability of the civilian grid to disruption and attack, and as a resource for the defensive and offensive operations of the U.
Critics and skeptics of DER highlight the high cost of distributed sources of power generation, including integration and management costs, and the danger of subsidies and incentives for DER technologies creating an unfair burden for customers not deploying them.
This latter issue is raising specific concerns amongst utilities that the net metering approach in place today in most states results in a significant and unfair cost shifting from DG customers to non-DG customers. This has spawned a variety of efforts to seek better ways to value the costs and benefits of DG, in particular rooftop solar PV.
Hahn Broadband Edited by Robert W. Crandall and James H. Alleman Sixth, other technology innovations are driving decentralization of electricity and empowering consumers with greater knowledge and choice in their energy use. The proliferation of grid modernization technologies—generally referring to the convergence of energy technology and information communications technologies —represents the intersection of the physical power layer transmission and distribution system with a data transport and control layer communications and control , and an applications layer applications and services that enables two-way information and power flow between utilities and consumers.
Seventh, all of the above trends are occurring simultaneously and rapidly, outstripping the adequacy and relevance of existing regulatory and business models. Top cast Edit. Stephen Collins Dr. Gene Porter as Dr. Gene Porter. Jessica Collins Cynthia as Cynthia. Eric Kripke. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. What would you do without it all?
In this epic adventure, a family struggles to reunite in an American landscape void of electricity: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology -- computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights -- has mysteriously blacked out forever. Did you know Edit. Trivia 1 year after the show was cancelled, it was brought back in a digital comic book series called Revolution: Endgame. There were 4 chapters, to wrap up the series big questions that were left from the show.
Goofs Early on in season one they establish that modern firearms are almost never used because it is impossible to produce ammuniton for them. By season two this concept is discarded and the characters routinely use automatic weapons. Quotes Miles Matheson : We lived in an electric world. User reviews Review. Top review. It's not as bad as everyone says In 'Revolution' the power is out, militia has taken over and the government has fallen.
I feel as if the reviews on this series don't do it justice. It could be argued that it isn't the most realistic portrayal of what would happen if the power went out but, who actually knows what would happen? I don't watch movies or films and question their attempts to get it close to reality, I appreciate the entertainment. The character development is good in my eyes, 'Monroe' and 'Miles' used to be leaders of the 'Militia'. Miles dropped out from power and Monroe has now gone insane with his power, after killing thousands they are both pretty much cold- hearted, which leads to some gruesome deaths.
They keep dropping clues and hints about how and why the power was turned off. The characters have good links with each other and every episode is more entertaining. After nearly watching the first season of 'Revolution' I am happy to say that it is awesome, I am kept very entertained through out and feel emotion to some characters.
Also if you love 'Breaking Bad', ''Giancarlo Esposito'' is in Revolution and he plays an awesome character, similar to his Breaking Bad role. If Monroe is going to have power, then the rebels need to have power, too.
So she decided to bring Aaron along with her -- and no one else. Yeah, this makes no sense at all. Charlie wanted to go with her, but she said no. How about some other archer, or anyone else who can be a better physical asset than poor, sweet Aaron.
And why is Rachel so certain that she's never going to come back -- did she tell Aaron that part, by the way? She told Charlie she'll never see her again, but that seems unlikely as they're both stars in the show. Even Frodo and Sam were reunited with the rest of the fellowship at the end of the story. Actually, I'm getting a little worried about Giancarlo Esposito as well. But while I was expecting some sort of power play for control of the Monroe Republic, there appears to be a very different plan in store for Tom.
Fans of Giancarlo Esposito's powerful and menacing performance in "Breaking Bad" were probably a little off-put by some of his sniveling in this episode, but there were glimpses of his terrifying Gus Fring persona.
Tom had gotten himself captured -- while listening to Lionel Richie, no less -- during a routine mission. The rebels didn't expect to catch a big fish like him, and he certainly didn't expect to go down like that. Even worse, he got played by his own son, Jason. That should buy Jason some street cred with Miles and the rebels. With that scene, Jason hopefully closed the chapter on his need to please daddy.
It was a beautifully written and played vignette, as it certainly seemed that Jason had cowed to his father's warnings about Jason's mother and decided to free his father. It made it that much more satisfying when the truth was revealed. Nevertheless, Rachel was probably right in wanting to kill Tom while they had the chance. He's caused nothing but pain, and he will continue to do so. Now though, Tom has much bigger problems: After being tricked into revealing the location of their bomb schematics and supplies to the rebels, he knows Monroe is going to come after him.
And Monroe knows that Tom's weakness is his wife Julia. And so, Tom facilitated that brutal escape so he could make his way back into Monroe's stronghold and get his wife out.
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