Perspective

“It’s exciting to see customers who could not afford full facility, backup generation, in particular some nursing homes and medical facilities that may have only had backup generation for certain emergency pieces of equipment, now can operate during a major disaster.”

“It’s emulators or simulators that enable us to deploy some tactics, techniques, and procedures that adversaries use. It emulates that in terms of how far it could have gone, where would it have been stopped, where would we have observed it, where would we have been able to stop it, even if manually, but time to detection is the primary focus.”

“In terms of energy consumption, I’m one of the largest customers in the U.S. I would like utilities to think of me as a partner in business, because I have several special authorities given by Congress that allow me to utilize my resources to help deliver these results, but in a business-like way.”

“With the right policy and market development framework in place, regulators have an opportunity to accelerate the deployment of VPPs, improve grid reliability, reduce rate pressure on consumers, and make progress on decarbonization.”

“Over the past few years, I sat down with thought leaders to explore uncertainty as part of EEI International Programs’ Influential Minds series. These experts provided unique perspectives from their disciplines on how the energy industry can harness or overcome uncertainty to inform decision making and reach our goals.”

“EPRI has expanded its collaboration with DOE’s national labs. This work has included case studies to explore specific climate resilience research questions, joint publications, and a series of workshops.”

“The FCC certainly has an extensive to-do list. On the Broadband Internet Access Service provider side, an interesting question of what comes next for them is whether the FCC’s Open Internet Order will deter investment in broadband facilities and services.”

“We’ve partnered with the University of Notre Dame to develop an industry-first Innovation Mindset Training course, which focuses on The Six Keys of Innovation. This training is designed to unlock the potential of our employees, empowering them to contribute to our innovation goals.”

“There is a mismatch of need and timing. For those growing utilities, the demands are coming faster than new transmission can meet. Transmission is part of the answer – but what can be done in the interim of this lopsided world?”

“Solutions leveraging gas capacity, battery storage, geothermal generation, and fuel cells are creating a bridge to long-term electricity grid solutions. This may be the start of a trend where modular demand needs are matched to distributed generation.”