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Fortnightly Magazine - June 2025

Weathering the Storm

CAMPUT

Extreme weather events can devastate utility infrastructure. This panel on Weathering the Storm (Resilience and Extreme Weather) discussed resilient, cost-effective strategies for safeguarding energy systems while exploring critical questions on responsibility and costs in the face of extreme weather.
Byline: 

Francis Bradley et al.

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At Least Doubling Transmission Line Capacity

TS Conductor

“Every year, 10 million miles of conductor are needed. Even with our South Carolina expansion, we’re looking at about 30,000 miles of conductor. That is a drop in the bucket. That 150 million miles of conductor needed in 15 years is for the global marketplace, but it is still a massive number.”
Byline: 

Jason Huang

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Drilling Down on Data Center Demand Surge

Accenture Forecast

“We came across a neat wrinkle around the untapped potential of existing retired infrastructure, like a retired coal plant, which in many cases has transmission interconnection and substation infrastructure. There are about 180 or so that have adequate infrastructure for utilities to consider retrofitting.“
Byline: 

Scott Tinkler and Jim Mazurek

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EEI's Global Electrification Forum: Memorable Moments

Energy Scenes

Grid leaders from around the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. in May. Just on the first day of the week-long conference, speakers represented Australia, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Finland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Zambia. Plus the United States.
Byline: 

PUF

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Enabling Growth When Energy is Every Business's Business

Demonstrating Value

“To understand this energy growth and its impact on companies’ needs and expectations of their energy providers, EY teams surveyed more than 2,400 energy leaders and decision makers at medium and large businesses globally, including over 1,000 in the United States.”
Byline: 

Greg Guthridge and Nicholas Handcock

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Investing in Uncertain Times

A Framework

“Given the rapid periodicity of change in the larger ecosystem, navigating the investments in the energy sector today is not about eliminating uncertainty – it is about reducing uncertainty through better information, and then developing solutions that are resilient to a variety of future outcomes.”
Byline: 

Alexina Jackson and Molly Podolefsky

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The Right Words Can Build a Stronger Energy System

Energy Efficiency and Electrification in Context

“By clearly distinguishing energy efficiency from electrification and adopting comprehensive strategies informed by full-fuel-cycle data, policymakers can ensure practical, realistic, and effective progress toward achieving shared climate goals.”
Byline: 

Ashley Duckman

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Grading Our Water Infrastructure

American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure

Just as the end-of-school-year grades may be anxiously anticipated, not many look forward to the arrival of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) quadrennial Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.

ASCE’s overall “C” grade rating is for more sectors than utilities, including highways, streets, dams, mass transit, and airports, to name a few. We recognize that for the first time since 1998, at least no sector received a D-.

Byline: 

Mary-Anna Holden and Butch Howard

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Nuclear's Future Resurgence, Part 1

Getting Projects Right

“Supportive sentiment from all corners is at its highest since the 1960s, with once-adverse stakeholders recognizing the need for nuclear in future power supply. Potential new nuclear owners are already looking at the future new-build environment in a different way.”
Byline: 

Tom Flaherty and Mile Milisavljevic

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