Meet Energy ED™

Energy ED provides a realistic simulation of your local electricity system, offering a unique and interactive opportunity for energy professionals to:

  • Engage community leaders and citizens in a discussion of imminent challenges facing the electric industry and our greater society.
  • Educate interested citizens and customers about fundamental energy issues, technology choices and tradeoffs.
  • Promote balanced alternatives that make sense and are valuable to citizens, policy makers and news media.

presenting the choices

Energy ED uses a vivid and user-friendly interface to illustrate:

  • Effects of consumer decisions on electricity demand.
  • Relationships between available power and reliability.
  • Pros and cons of available technologies.
  • Infrastructure and resource considerations for siting.

110 Illumination Place™ brings the reality of growing electric demand home to the consumer. Where and when is energy used? Why are we using more? How much can be saved by updating appliances or changing thermostat settings? These questions are interactively answered in a virtual home. In addition, household decisions are translated into their effect on local power supply. Click here for an interactive tour.

The Energy ED Simulator™ is a realistic reconstruction of the electricity system in your state or service territory. Participants add or remove power plants while watching the corresponding effects on system reliability, air emissions and consumer bills. Construction of power plants is simulated using technology-specific emission rates and construction costs. Complex scenarios are brought to life by varying growth rates, efficiency efforts, and natural gas prices. The simulation provides educational capsules as well as state-specific estimates of available renewable resources. Click here for an interactive tour.

Power Grid™ proactively confronts NIMBY-ism, illustrating the simple fact that new sources of power must be located somewhere. Each technology has unique requirements, with natural resources and infrastructure making some backyards better than others. This software layers transmission lines, pipelines, railways, water, cities and more to facilitate an open discussion.