Conversation with Emerson’s Rick Kephart
It was on the sidelines of Edison Congress 2025 that Public Utilities Fortnightly's Steve Mitnick talked on camera with Rick Kephart, Vice President of Technology at Emerson Power and Water Solutions. About how artificial intelligence is increasingly driving enormous and positive changes in grid systems and powerplant operations with the real expectation that this will increase reliability while decreasing costs. A trend that Kephart is very involved in given his company's huge footprint in the industry's control systems.
So check out this vid of PUF's Steve Mitnick talking with Emerson's Rick Kephart. In less than six and a half minutes you'll be an expert, almost, on how AI is transforming grid systems and powerplant operations.