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The MARC 2024 conference was held in Minneapolis in May with the theme "Cooperation and Innovation." It highlighted the ways that the region’s utilities, developers, regulators, stakeholders, and communities have worked together for the public good.

The 2024 SEARUC Annual Education Conference was held in June with the theme "Empowering the Southeast: Navigating Load Growth, Resiliency and Affordability."

Enjoy these photos of what went on at CAMPUT 2024 in Calgary, Alberta.

Attendees heard the perspectives of regulators, energy and utilities companies, academics, communities, Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, consumer representatives, and advisers and legal counsels on the leading issues facing the regulatory community.

The 8th Annual Global Electrification Forum, hosted by the Edison Electric Institute with the theme of Infinite Innovations, Transformative Impact, was held with a virtual program and three days of in-person talks in Washington, D.C. The Forum explored advancing electrification through impactful actions that promote systemic innovation across the ecosystem surrounding electricity.

Hosted by Public Utilities Fortnightly and the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, this unique event is by and for those who lead their electric power generation, transmission, and distribution organizations. Each session was really a conversation among peers about their common challenges, lessons learned, and best practices.

This year’s GEF, more than any previous forum, will promote systems thinking to understand the vast opportunities available when we take an economy-wide approach to the clean energy transition.

This annual meeting of Veterans in Energy brings together military vets from every corner of the country, from dozens of energy utilities and companies, and from every service: Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force.

PUF’s Paul Kjellander was hard at work at the recent NARUC Winter Summit, not only as a former NARUC President, but as painter extraordinaire for the utilities industry.

PUF’s Paul Kjellander completed new paintings to show PUF’s sincere appreciation for the industry’s heroes.