Strategy & Planning

A conversation with EPRI’s CEO Mike Howard and GTI’s CEO David Carroll

Utility people are at their best when they're innovating to fulfill the potential, as Bill Nye says, to change the world.

Sessions addressed strategies for maximizing value from existing transmission assets, and more.

Every CEO is seeking to create the utility of the future, but the strategy has been focused on cost cutting and changing the mix of generating plants. But the disruption is originating with the customer, and the strategy has to be customer centric.

Yackira was at the center of – and a driver of – some of the industry’s biggest developments of the last quarter century. He remains active on boards and in charitable activities but seems keen to contribute more.

Mississippi's Public Service Commission is housed near the state Capitol in the beautiful art deco E.T. Woolfolk state office building.

The benefits of retail competition for residential customers might not be all that much.

Just like dealing with natural attacks on the grid — hurricanes, storms and floods, and just like dealing with man-made attacks on the grid — vandalism, terrorism and even acts of war — we need to prepare, protect and respond to restore the grid's essential service as rapidly as possible.

The approaches taken by European utilities are portable to other regions and can be instructive to North American utilities considering alternative paths for advancing their innovation models.

We describe the strategies being adopted by the Global Top 40 utilities and the positioning moves they are pursuing.