Gone are the days of the staid electric utility dutifully providing power from firm resources. Amid climate and technological change, potentially disruptive forces — like solar and wind power, in both centralized and distributed form — abound.
And then there’s the car you drive, which just might be electric, if not today, then before long.
Before another overflow crowd at the EV Roadmap conference in Portland, utility executives tangled Wednesday with the question of the utility role in an…