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PUG Innovators Conference

PUG Innovators Conference

Join me at https://pufinnovators.com/ on October 10-12 in Washington DC and engage with a great innovation panel of: -Bill Johnson, GM KCK BPU-Peter Muhoro, Chief Strategy, Technology and Innovation Officer at Rappahannock EMC-Carlos Nouel, VP of Transformation at...

PUG Innovators Conference

PUG Innovators Conference

Join me at https://pufinnovators.com/ on October 10-12 in Washington DC and engage with a great innovation panel of: -Bill Johnson, GM KCK BPU-Peter Muhoro, Chief Strategy, Technology and Innovation Officer at Rappahannock EMC-Carlos Nouel, VP of Transformation at...

Rebuilding Lahaina

Rebuilding Lahaina

The devastating August 8th fires in Lahaina changed lives forever. It was a tragedy that deeply saddened the watching world—the loss of lives, and loss of way of life unique to the beautiful setting that Lahaina and the Island of Maui provided. Although Lahaina and...

Whitepaper: Solving for FERC 881

Whitepaper: Solving for FERC 881

Introduction We heard them loud and clear!   Senior utility leadership at Distributech 2023 and IEEE GridEdge 2023 told us they want and expect innovation! Innovation that is “simple” and “synergistic”.   Solutions to operational challenges that are easy to implement,...

Storm Creates Outage in Kansas City

Storm Creates Outage in Kansas City

The largest storm damage (outage) in the history of company! Tens of thousands of customers out for multiple days, nuke plant curtailed due to downed transmission, and businesses closed. (My dental office still closed 3 days after storm!). What is the true cost of...

Consumers Energy wants to bury power lines

Consumers Energy wants to bury power lines

Here's an article in The Detroit News about undergrounding. “It is important to remember burying our lines might be the right solution for some areas but not others,” said Chris Laird, the company’s vice president of electric operations, in a statement. “… By using a...

Underground Resiliency for FERC 2222

Underground Resiliency for FERC 2222

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222 requires the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the transmission and distribution (T&D) system and will use the principles of transactive energy to move towards net-zero energy and carbon-free generation portfolios.

Kentucky Utilities and Undergrounding

Kentucky Utilities and Undergrounding

According to this article, a Kentucky Utilities spokesman said “very few utilities are converting older, overhead lines to underground lines across the country.” Where has he been? Kentucky Utilities….the utilities below are happy to share lessons learned and best...

Undersea Cables

Undersea Cables

A great new idea! Undersea cables linking islands to mainland generation has been done around the world. Could Puerto Rico be next?

Austin Takes Action

Austin Takes Action

“By having our power lines underground, we are hardening our infrastructure. We are creating a more resilient city and we are preparing our community,” said [Austin Council Member] Fuentes.

50% Underground by 2040

50% Underground by 2040

We set goals for renewables, net zero energy and carbon free energy. These resource related goals will require a 21st Century distribution grid that is reliable, resilient and still affordable. Will it be our grandfather’s distribution grid? No.  The electric...

Humans on the Moon?

Humans on the Moon?

What will engineers of the future build on the moon? 3D printed concrete structures and landing sites made with moon aggregate and the water NASA hopes to discover in the south https://lnkd.in/gwzdRX9t Solar energy with some version of hydrogen storage or small...

Defining Resiliency

Defining Resiliency

Our industry needs to provide simple, understandable definitions for commonly used terms such as smart grid, smart cities, distributed energy resources, and microgrids. The simple, understandable definition of resiliency is: The ability to withstand a High Impact, Low...

IEEE PES Grid

IEEE PES Grid

At the IEEE PES Grid, I will have three panels on World Changing Ideas for Positive Economic Development, Customer Engagement and Strategic Undergrounding, and Wildfire & Risk Mitigation.

Entergy

Entergy

Entergy is asking regulators to spend $15B over the next 10 years to harden an overhead system from the late 1900’s. But, in 2022 and after massive hurricanes in 2005 and 2021 wiped out much of the T&D serving New Orleans, why would Entergy propose more of the...

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