Innovation at AEP
Leadership Lyceum Podcast
Utilities are focused on making sure that not only is there bidirectional flow of power and energy but also bidirectional flow of data.
Strategy & Planning
Governors' Energy Innovation Summit
Governors Serve a Crucial Role
Information from those summits are used to develop energy and transportation innovation roadmaps.
Innovating Like EPRI
What Will Help Drive The Acceleration of Innovation?
EPRI has to understand how various innovations impact safe, reliable, affordable, and environmentally responsible electricity.
So Much Innovation Already, So Much to Go
Technology, Policies and Customers
The energy grid is evolving into a plug-and-play platform. That means connecting a lot of so-called ‘things’ to the grid.
NARUC Innovation Awards
New Approaches, New Technologies, Driving Change
Illinois Commerce Commission Chair recognizes innovative work of leaders in the public utility sector.
Nominating a Bold Innovator
Transformational Line Design
An excerpt of a nomination letter making the case for Jeff Fleeman to be selected as a Fortnightly Top Forty Innovator.
Your 2017 Fortnightly Top Forty Innovators
First Fantastic Forty
The first transformational transmission line design in nearly fifty years? They developed it. The world's first battery/gas turbine hybrid system at existing peakers. They developed it too.
The world's first underground spent fuel storage facility at an operating nuclear plant. They developed it. One of the first distribution utility natural gas compressors. They developed it too.
Vertical climbing inspection robots. They developed them. Transmission line crawling inspection robots. They developed them too.
How Does Innovation Impact Customers?
No Two Are Alike
Consumers probably did not realize they wanted to talk to their homes to control connected devices, until they did.
The Innovation Imperative
Powering-up Your Utility
Calculated business model innovation can reveal investment opportunities or operational approaches to future-proof companies.
The Mind of an Innovator
Reflections on Skills, Traits, Mindset
Anyone can innovate. But not everyone is an innovator.