Remember to Breathe: Quick and Clean Infrastructure
Not Mission: Impossible
Every bill seems tough to move on the Hill these days. One possible exception? Infrastructure.
Perspective
Did the FCC Get It Right this Time?
Ambiguity and Uncertainty
The FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom order is in many respects a vast improvement, but it has its own imperfections.
Challenges Surrounding Electric Power Resiliency
Costs v. Benefits
Conducting a cost-benefit analysis of resiliency is particularly challenging because of high uncertainty on the benefit side.
Next Generation in Billing and Customer Care
CIS systems
An interview with John Baksa, President, Hansen Technologies North America
Offshore Wind Transmission - Options and Opportunities
Challenging Tradeoffs
Backbone transmission and expandable transmission designs have the potential to lower costs, but they present significant coordination challenges with generation development.
A Different Grid Perspective
Like a River
We must stop viewing the grid as a means of transporting electricity from point “A” to point “B.”
Cooperative Power Leaders: David Swank
CEO, Central Electric Co-op
Central strives to be “the next generation utility” with its Innovation Pointe campus.
Cooperative Power Leaders: Bill Reffert, Pat Howle, Kevin Jordan
ERMCO and Horry Electric Co-op
Interviews with Bill Reffert, CEO, ERMCO; Pat Howle, CEO, and Kevin Jordan, Engineer, Horry Electric Co-op.
Cooperative Power Leaders: Tim Lindahl
CEO, Wheat Belt Public Power District
“We became a summer-peaking system, and mountain communities not too far away were winter-peaking systems. We formed Tri-State to really manage that.”
Cooperative Power Leaders: CEOs Mark Schwirtz and Zac Perkins
Golden Spread Elec. & Tri-County Elec.
“If you want electricity to come from cow manure, or from wind resources, let’s look for ways to do that, because that’s what our job is.”