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NARUC's Officers Elected

NARUC Annual Meeting

Voted on were Idaho’s Paul Kjellander to be NARUC’s president from 2020 to 2021, along with Virginia’s Judy Jagdmann as NARUC’s first vice president, and Connecticut’s Michael Caron as NARUC’s second vice president.

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Brandon Presley

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NARUC Annual Meeting, Connecting the Dots

Looking Ahead to Kentucky

NARUC carries on, online, with the important business of regulating in the public interest.

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Steve Mitnick

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Digital Divide Blues

Spotlight

Alaska Consumer Advocate Jeff Waller wrote a song about the digital divide.

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Jeff Waller

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When We Think About Innovation

Black & Veatch

“If you’re not improving, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind.”

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Martin Travers, Irvin Bishop, Jr. and Brenda Greig

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Profiles in Innovation: Alyssa Grigoryan, Kathy Hidalgo, Sunanda Singh, Lucero Vargas

Southern California Edison

California’s utilities are using drones, sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to reduce wildfire risk in ways that would seem like science fiction a few years ago.

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Alyssa Grigoryan et al.

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Profiles in Innovation: Dave Geier and Stephen Johnston

San Diego Gas & Electric

Their project prevents mylar balloons from causing a blackout or fire when they float into a power line.

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Dave Geier and Stephen Johnston

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Profiles in Innovation: Anil Kondabathini, HyoJong Lee, Reynaldo Nuqui, Jiuping Pan

Hitachi ABB Power Grids

“The hacker can ramp down or up the DC power. We monitor those. If the behavior is not consistent with normal operation, we stop the command from being executed.”

Byline:

Anil Kondabathini et al.

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Profiles in Innovation: Maria Guimaraes Biagini

EPRI

“In nuclear construction, inspecting by removing samples from the structure is not desirable. That is when nondestructive evaluation becomes a key factor in allowing us to inspect.”

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Maria Guimaraes Biagini

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Profiles in Innovation: Geoff Blanford

EPRI

“We’re extending our modeling tools to be able to capture this new set of technologies, thinking about where they might be in 10, 20 or 30 years.”

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Geoff Blanford

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Profiles in Innovation: Zachary Wassenberg

Burns & McDonnell

“The RealWear device is a voice activated technology that reduces costs and make us more effective. At its core, it’s a safety technology that makes people hands free.”

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Zachary Wassenberg

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