New Technologies Are Shaping Options For Electricity Producers and Electricity Consumers

摘要

Increasing competition for electricity customers and competing generation technologies, are driving electric utilities down a difficult road trying to develop new products and services to differentiate themselves and create a competitive edge. But in an ironic way, future electric utility marketers may wind up finding themselves competing with small scale, self generation technology in jurisdictions where electricity rates are high enough to allow large electricity consumers to economically adopt new generation technologies. Traditional electric utilities and emerging new private generation companies with visionary products and services, are investing in new technologies as a way to exploit electricity and natural gas. Although existing electric infrastructure continues to serve primary power needs, electric generation requirements are starting to change as more and more electric networks are opening up to various suppliers and technology sources of generation.