Lewis Latimer: The First Hidden Figure
Announcing My New Book
What does Latimer’s grit, genius, and accomplishments, in an era of extreme adversity for African Americans, tell us about the quest for racial equality and justice in our day?
People
Utility Regulation and Policy Masked
Mainstream Masks
Masks are everywhere, so we may as well try and give them some flavor.
NARUC’s Summit Musical Social
NARUC Summer Summit
Attendees were wowed by an interactive social event.
On the Passing of Barry Worthington
USEA
Barry Worthington, a remarkable leader in the energy industry, and a friend who will be missed.
Alberta Commission Chair Retires and Reflects on Regulatory Career
State Commissioners
A conversation with Mark Kolesar, retired Chair, Alberta Utilities Commission, moderated by Ahmad Faruqui of The Brattle Group
Young African American Looks at Utilities
Careers
A conversation with a recent Princeton University grad considering careers including potentially within the utilities industry.
APPA’s Public Power Connect, June 8
American Public Power Association
The awards ceremony, excerpted here, was held virtually.
Utility Workforce: Rich Meisinger
Business Manager, IBEW Local 111
Half of the control room operators had been exposed to COVID at one of their power plants. We only have four, so there were two left. For two weeks, those two lived at the plant, so it had 24-hour coverage.
Utility Workforce: Kris Anderson
IBEW Third District Representative
On Christmas Eve there was a big outage and we got the wires hung, we closed the fuse in and saw all the Christmas lights pop on. I know it meant a lot to those folks.
Utility Workforce: Virgil Melton
Curriculum Specialist
Our first-year apprentices are making $100,000 a year when they start out.