Go Big and Local with Clean Energy
For Post-COVID Recovery
Addressing this triple impetus – a pandemic-hobbled economy, an over-heated planet, and poorly-addressed social equity issues – can begin immediately if we go big and go local.
Perspective
Top Three EV Rate Trends: Encouraging Transportation Electrification
APPA
Incentivizing off-peak charging, offering non-traditional rate structures, and embracing commercial and industrial customer electrification (in addition to residential) were cited by The American Public Power Association.
Accenture's Operational Tech Cybersecurity Summit
Memorable Moments
Accenture led discussions with technical leaders on how OT security stakeholders are achieving buy-ins, articulating risk, maximizing budgets, and implementing programs.
EEI: Enabling the Clean Energy Future
Global Electrification Forum
Moderator Lawrence Jones: “Your companies are all world leaders in clean energy.”
EEI: Remarks by National Grid CEO John Pettigrew
Global Electrification Forum
“We’re exploring an ultrarapid charging network to support the rollout of EVs in the U.K. In the U.S. we’re piloting off peak charging solutions for residential customers.”
EEI 2021 Global Electrification Forum, Part 1
Destination 2050
“Destination 2050: Pathways, Inflections, Crossroads, Convergence” was an epic, two-week, international event.
Indiana Senate's Lessons on Texas
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”
Alliance to Save Energy at Congressional Hearing
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“Energy efficiency should be the starting point in the conversation about an equitable clean energy transition.”
CERAWeek by IHS Markit
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“If you’re going to operate within a single market like Texas, with very limited access to the Eastern Interconnect, then you really have to think about what those reserve margins should be.”
Up the Capacity of an HVAC Line
Consider Converting to HVDC, Part 3
“We describe several ways the capacity of an existing high voltage AC transmission line can be increased and show that sometimes the most cost-effective strategy is to convert the line to high voltage DC.”