May 29
CLEAResult Approaches One Trillion kWh of Customer Energy Savings
This week's top smart energy news, curated by the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC).
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CLEAResult is approaching one trillion kilowatt hours of cumulative customer energy savings since 2003, according to the company's 2025 Sustainability Report released earlier this month. The report details $7.4 billion in lifetime customer energy bill savings, 17.1 million metric tons of CO₂ averted, and continued net-zero performance across Scope 1 and Scope 2 operations in 2025.
Uplight and The Brattle Group announced findings from a new report, “The Demand Stack: An Assessment of the Benefits,” illustrating how a representative utility could increase demand-side resource capability by 60% by 2030 – growing flexible capacity from 146 MW to 235 MW – by leveraging an integrated suite of Demand Stack strategies across demand response, energy efficiency and TOU rates designed around system needs.
Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Company (DLC) is ramping up reliability, supporting customers and investing in the long-term resilience of its southwestern Pennsylvania region, according to its newly released 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report also shows how DLC responded to new challenges in 2025, laying the groundwork for continued focus and action this year.
The Smart Electric Power Alliance recently announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, including Lora Anguay, Chief Energy Resources Officer at Sacramento Municipal Utility District, a California public power utility. Also announced for the SEPA Board of Directors was Brian Heithoff, CEO and General Manager of Trico Electric Cooperative, and David Springe, Executive Director of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates.
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Industry News
It’s set to be an abnormally hot summer this year – but the U.S. grid appears to be in decent shape to handle the heat. The credit goes to a boatload of new solar and storage and a handful of new gas plants. That’s the upshot of the new summer reliability assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corp., which oversees the U.S. and Canadian electric systems.
The United States installed 9.7 GWh of battery storage in the first quarter of 2026, up 32% year over year, the Solar Energy Industries Association said last week. It’s the highest-ever first-quarter energy storage deployment in the U.S. Utility-scale deployments reached 1.5 GW/7.8 GWh; C&I deployments reached 648 MWh; and residential deployments hit 515 MWh.
JEA has received recognition for significant improvements in electric reliability and service restoration for its customers, earning two reliability awards from Florida Municipal Power Agency, a wholesale power agency owned by municipal electric utilities across Florida. FMPA General Manager and CEO Jacob Williams praised JEA’s continued progress in electric reliability during the JEA Board of Directors meeting on May 19.
A year ago, Crystal Bright was freaking out. The Charlotte, North Carolina–based interior designer had just separated from her partner and needed to figure out how to stay afloat financially. She could have taken on more work, Bright said, but that would have meant spending less time with her son, who’s now 8 years old. So, she reasoned, “Let me just save money instead of figure out how to make money.”
