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“This innovation is about a simulation in the metaverse, simulating cybersecurity events, and how we can react to them. We created three virtual meta worlds, an electrical substation, the emergency communications center or ECC, and a cybersecurity collaboration meeting room.”

“We switched over to a digital platform for substation protection and control, compared to the hundreds or thousands of copper cables. Our new solution enables us to complete construction more efficiently. We can deploy this type of technology and construct a substation control house in a matter of months instead of years.”

An overview of this year’s top innovators from fourteen utilities, as well as some excellent nominations.

When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, George Leigh Mallory famously said, “because it is there.” I thought of that inspiring line when wondering why this year’s Fortnightly Top Innovators wanted to innovate. Is it because the challenge, and the fruits of conquering it, were right there before them, beckoning them?

The MARC 2023 conference theme, Grand Vision: Past, Present, Future, reflected the active era of federal energy policy.

Accenture’s three day conference in Los Angeles included engaging workshops, presentations, and discussions.

NARUC’s Summer Summit took place in Austin this year and PUF held its always popular annual Soapbox luncheon during the conference. Thirteen speakers hopped on their soapboxes to say or sing whatever was on their minds.

The NARUC Summer Policy Summit was held in Austin amid much camaraderie and heat in Texas. While the Monday opening General Session looked back at the Northeast Blackout of 2003, ERCOT kept the electric grid humming along in a heat wave that kept temperatures above one hundred all week.

PUF presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.

The density of utility regulatory and policy folks in the more than adequately air-conditioned JW Marriott Austin, gathered there for NARUC’s Summer Summit, even after adjusting for the three-digit temperatures outside the conference’s hotel, hit record highs.