Energy Highways
Politics and Infrastructure Development
Technology adoption is an incomplete strategy. What is needed is a more comprehensive and long-term approach to infrastructure development.
Strategy & Planning
The New Energy Math
NY Operations Center Saves Millions
New York’s Energy Manager Network Operations Center is an example of how the development and robust use of smart electric technology is moving the industry in a new, unprecedented and necessary direction.
The Power of Innovation, Part 1
Utility Execs' Roundtable: We sat down with seven utility execs who lead their companies on innovation
Strategy& and Public Utilities Fortnightly recently collaborated on an innovation roundtable in Washington, D.C. at the offices of the Edison Electric Institute. The experiences of these senior executives convey insights attained through the hard work of creating their unique innovation platforms.
Energy People: Ben Fowke
We talked with Ben Fowke, who leads Xcel Energy
Ben Fowke and Steve Mitnick discuss Xcel’s rapidly growing wind resources. They made up 17 percent of the energy provided to Xcel’s customers in 2015, generating more power than nuclear and nearly as much as natural gas. By 2020, Xcel projects that 24 percent of its energy will come from wind.
Challenging Common Excuses for Ignoring Grid Analytics
Heart of Digital Transformation Strategy
The three barriers to grid analytics – fear, uncertainty and doubt – can be overcome. Indeed, if utilities want to remain competitive, they should be. Where companies have moved ahead with successful implementations, the benefits are manifest.
Architecture for the Integrated Grid
Built to Last Means Built to Change
To realize the full value of distributed resources and to serve all consumers at the highest standards of quality and reliability, the grid needs to expand its scope. What is needed is an intentional architecture that enables communication and coordination between devices and systems, regardless of their manufacturer.
Challenge of Commercialization
Turning Ideas into Value
Utilities will need to master, on their way to successful innovation commercialization, the ability to think like their future competitors.
Facilitating Innovation
Making Regulation a Better Surrogate for Competition
There are some ways, though perhaps modest, for regulators to move their utilities along and encourage appropriate risk taking.
AMI to IoT
Lesson in Change
In today’s Internet of Things, businesses face a strikingly similar picture to what utilities saw in the early days of the smart grid. Consider what those lessons have in store for us today.
Reflections from The Room Where It Happened
Leadership Lyceum Podcast Summary
Conversation on M&A: Former CEOs of PHI and NiSource/CPG, Joe Rigby and Bob Skaggs, and Director Les Silverman.