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Visiting Hawaiian Electric

Unique Renewable Goals

Perhaps the highest of the high points of visiting Hawaiian Electric and Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission was when Commission chair Jay Griffin announced during the pre-hearing conference we attended that "the Mitnicks" of Public Utilities Fortnightly were sitting in, as welcome guests of the Commission. (One Mitnick had flown in from Washington, D.C., the other from Tokyo.) Or perhaps when we watched the moving Hawaiian blessing of the West Loch Solar Project of Hawaiian Electric and the U.S. Navy.

Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Cybersecurity: Gladys Dutrieuille

Prepare, Protect, Respond

“Recently, NARUC published a Cybersecurity Manual, which is a tool kit to provide information to state Commissions as they’re looking to work with their utilities.”
Byline: 

Gladys Dutrieuille

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Cybersecurity: Bill Spence

Prepare, Protect, Respond

“EEI members have stood up a host of programs, such as the spare transformer, critical equipment sharing, cyber mutual assistance, and cyber risk information sharing programs we developed in cooperation with DOE and NERC.”
Byline: 

Bill Spence

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Cybersecurity: Tom Fanning

Prepare, Protect, Respond

“There is a fast approaching environment where it won’t be humans to machines but rather machines to machine. Now your millions of times a day could be trillions.”
Byline: 

Tom Fanning

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Cybersecurity: Bruce Walker

Prepare, Protect, Respond

“Approach the sector as if it has already been compromised and recognize that the system was designed before computers were available.”
Byline: 

Bruce Walker

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Cybersecurity: Brian Harrell

Prepare, Protect, Respond

“When utilities are struggling with a malware issue, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, physical security events, emergency management, and response and recovery issues, we are there in their time of need.”
Byline: 

Brian Harrell

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Mississippi PSC: Rickey Cotton

Director - Pipeline Safety

“I assign inspectors an area throughout the state and let them stay about two years to make sure that they don’t bond too much with the operator.”
Byline: 

Rickey Cotton

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