POV on Cloud Computing for Utilities

Accenture

Cloud computing has tremendous value propositions in driving safe, clean, and affordable utility services and infrastructure, which are the very premises the regulatory bodies want to ascertain. Utilities lag significantly behind other industries in adopting cloud computing, primarily because of the disincentives imposed by traditional regulatory accounting. This article discusses the urgency for utilities and regulators to accelerate their journey to the cloud and the steps to be taken to embark on that journey.

Presiding Over MACRUC

MACRUC

“Leadership is going the extra mile, taking the time to understand concerns and what’s important to another state.”

Global Energy Transition: Gregg Knight

CenterPoint Energy

“We feel especially responsible to make sure that we bring all of the ecosystem together to express what’s going to be required from our investment perspective and how our state and communities will need to also support that from an economic development perspective.”

Global Energy Transition: Miguel d'Andrade

EDP

“In some cases, utilities opt to enter into build-transfer agreements. They’ll tender, we’ll build them, and then transfer it to them at a pre-agreed price, so it moves to the rate base. For utilities that have coal plants, they can substitute them with wind or solar.”

Reuters Global Energy Transition 2022

Unique Conversations

After they left the speaker stage at this major international event, conversations with EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, CenterPoint Energy executive vice president Gregg Knight, AES EVP and President, US and Global Business Lines Julian Nebreda. Also, an ESG roundtable with FTI Consulting’s Rodolfo Araujo, Christine DiBartolo, Ken Ditzel, and Chris LeWand.