Transmission

Hawaiian Electric: Christian Whitney

Director for Pole Infrastructure Enterprise

“In order for anyone to accomplish their sustainability goals or for Hawaiian Electric to accomplish our reliability goals, the future is all in the telecom and the technology.”

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Christian Whitney

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How Do We Accelerate Transmission Development?

Challenges and Opportunities

Conversations with former FERC Chair Jim Hoecker and legendary developer Michael Skelly at the International Summit on the Electric Transmission Grid.

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Jim Hoecker and Michael Skelly

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The End of Big Iron

Emerging Cost Advantages

How wind and solar became cheaper than hydro, coal, and nuclear.

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Robert McCullough, Eric Shierman, Michael Weisdorf, and Louis Bengtson

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Planning and Regulatory Reforms to Unleash Transmission Investment

Improving the Grid

Proactive investment in the transmission grid is needed now to grow, sustain, and protect our twenty-first century economy.

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Brian Slocum

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Ask Not What Customers Can Do for RTO Markets

Ask What RTO Markets Can Do for Customers

Centralized markets are a supporting actor in the industry. They are important, but not author, producer, director, and leading actor in the play.

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Jay Morrison

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Michigan PSC: Electric Distribution Infrastructure

Pat Hudson and Ryan Laruwe

“The long-term goal is to integrate more of the distribution plans, the IRPs, and the transmission expansion planning that goes on separately and bring them all together.”

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Pat Hudson and Ryan Laruwe, with Steve Mitnick

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Hydro One's CEO Mayo Schmidt

Leadership Lyceum’s Podcast Summary

Three months after Mayo joined, Hydro One completed its IPO, raising $1.8 billion in gross proceeds.

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Tom Linquist, with Mayo Schmidt

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Forging a Path to the Modern Grid

Energy Efficiency Solutions

It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.

Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.

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Natasha Vidangos

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