by Mike Beehler | Nov 22, 2022 | Events
At the IEEE PES Grid Edge Conference, I will have three panels on World Changing Ideas for Positive Economic Development, Customer Engagement and Strategic Undergrounding, and Wildfire & Risk Mitigation.
by Mike Beehler | Nov 22, 2022 | Events
Come to Distributech next February and attend our panel “Driving Cost Out of Underground Programs” with industry leaders from Dominion, WE Energy, FPL and PG&E. These utilities will share their lessons learned, best and next practices on their large UG...
by Mike Beehler | Jul 11, 2022 | Links
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...
by Mike Beehler | Jul 11, 2022 | Video
HECO said the cost to put the power lines overhead is $6.7 million. Underground, it will cost $25 million. https://lnkd.in/gpHDwbKV But, what is total the cost of ownership of these overhead lines compared to underground for the life of the asset? How much will...
by Mike Beehler | Jul 4, 2022 | Links
Elon Musk has said that Artificial Intelligence is far more dangerous than nuclear weapons. https://lnkd.in/gxFD27Uu Now, this former Google engineer claims that the AI robot is self aware. AI has many good possible applications for our industry but we will...