Smart Grid

Smart Grid Technologies: Vermont Electric

IEEE PES

“ISO New England is the regional planner, and we work closely. They’ve identified in 2050 that they expect the winter peak in New England to double. What that means for VELCO and many other transmission owners in New England is line upgrades.”

Smart Grid Technologies: LUMA Energy

IEEE PES

“We have improved the reliability of the system by 35% in the first two years of operations. It’s quite a record in the U.S. for any utility. It would be hard to find any that have improved by 35% in two years in frequency of outages, and 20% of duration of outages in comparison to the previous year.”

Michigan PSC: The Next Generation

Lauren Fromm, Daniel Gottschalk, Derrell Slaughter

“The continued rise of consumer-related technology is going to increase time-of-use rates.”

Building the Utility Platform

Designing for the Future

The utility of the future will be more renewable, distributed and democratic because it can be and it must be, given the arc of technology, economics and human preference.