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PUF's annual look at our industry's drive to diversify its workforce and spend, plus a very special conversation on diversity in history.

PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick discussed his book, Lewis Latimer, The First Hidden Figure, with NRRI Director Carl Pechman and an esteemed panel. The book is part of a larger activity to build diversity in the electric industry, with profits helping establish the PUF Latimer Scholarship Fund administered by the American Association of Blacks in Energy.

NYPA’s Susan Craig and PUF’s Steve Mitnick talk about Edith Clarke’s breakthrough enabling the electric industry to engineer lines over 200 miles and ultimately today’s grid.

“One of the things we’ve done is look at a number of investor decks from peer utilities. I had my team look at them. It’s to get folks to think a little differently.”

“I was the second woman engineer ever hired in a 104-year-old company. It required that the culture shift. The first woman engineer, Colleen Ramsey, was super helpful to me.”

Conversations with the CEO of IDACORP, Lisa Grow, and COO of American Electric Power, Lisa Barton.

The USEA hosted an illuminating panel on Cyber Risk Management Through Measurement. This discussion, hosted by Sheila Hollis and moderated by Andy Bochman, picked the brains of some of this industry’s leaders, following the success of USEA’s fifteen-part series on cybersecurity and digitalization.

Eight individuals were inducted into the forum's Hall of Fame, a special occasion as it happens once every five years. And Interim President at the Alliance to Save Energy Clay Nessler got together with New York Representative Paul Tonko and DOE’s David Nemtzow for a virtual fireside chat on the release of the Alliance to Save Energy’s 2020 Energy Efficiency Indicator Study.

Memorable and meaningful moments from NARUC's series of riveting discussions on race and racism in a trying year of health and economic challenges.