Imagining Electricity's Future, in Long Beach
‘Electrification is the Foundation, for the Population.’
For the consumer, electric energy is simple, small, safe, silent, clean, cool, controllable, instantaneous.
Frontlines
NARUC in Wintertime
Utility Regulation and Policy Wait For No Man.
See You at this Year’s Winter Meeting on Edison’s Birthday (February 11).
Grid Investing
Why We Invest
Investing is noble. Investment is a journey of patience, discipline, dogged persistence.
Ten Predictions for 2018
NOPR Over and Over. Bills Lower and Lower.
Energy storage will advance, electrification will pick up, allowed rates of return will be reconsidered.
Can of Worms
Energy Department NOPR Forcing Difficult Conversations
Parties are warring over whether preventing certain plants from retiring makes the grid resilient.
To Further Electrify
How much energy should/could be electrified?
Further electrifying wouldn’t make sense if cleanliness in its production, and efficiency in its usage, had been purchased with electricity’s essential advantages as payment.
Recognizing and Celebrating
Touchy-Feely, Sure. Essential, For Sure!
When leaders honor innovators’ passion and inventiveness, they encourage the creative culture they so want for their organizations.
Fed's Energy Regulatory Commission
On Sept. 20, Enough Commissioners Convene
Maybe people forgot FERC meets monthly, when there’s enough commissioners.
Thousands of Innovators
Electric Industry Gets a New Vibe
A hundred years from now, who among today’s innovators will be revered for remaking this industry?
Those Without Power
Our Electrification Mission Remains, Even Here
Whether in Liberia or Arizona, no grid connection means darkness in several senses of the word.