University of Colorado Boulder - Electric Utilities Fundamentals and Future 

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Electric Utility Industry Animated Crash Course

1.3 What Happens When You Flip a Switch?

1.4 Generation for Generations

1.5 Fossil Fuels

1.6 Nuclear

1.7 Renewables - Hydroelectric and Wind

1.8 Renewables - Solar, Biomass and Geothermal

1.9 The Generation Portfolio

1.10 Transmission and Distribution

1.11 Outro

Taking Shape and Fundamentals

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Usage, Rates and Your Bill

2.3 Utility Types and Prices: Overview, Public Power and Electric Cooperatives

2.4 Utility Types and Prices: Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs)

2.5 Regulatory Compact and Rates Process

Price and Value

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Becoming More Customer Focused

3.3 Energy Efficiency

3.4 Distributed Generation

Not your grandparents' utility

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Technology and Customer Expectations

4.3 Aging Grid and the Rise of Federal Transmission Regulation

4.4 Federal Regulation and the Environment

4.5 State of Electric Utility Policy

4.6 State Regulation and the Environment

4.7 Outro

Pace of Change, Technology and Innovation

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Smart Grid

5.3 Microgrids

5.4 Storage

5.5 Electric Vehicles

5.6 Net Metering and Distributed Generation

5.7 Clean Power Plan

5.8 Future Models

5.9 Outro

Final Exam - Apply What You Learned!