Equity to Elevate Diverse Innovators
Elevate Future Initiative
“We want to make sure that under-represented founders and entrepreneurs – what I call the underestimated – have the chance to take part in this economy.”
Utility Industry Innovates to Protect from Cyberattacks
Energy Impact Partners
In April, the Biden Administration launched a 100-day action plan to address cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure in the U.S. electric system.
EPRI on Wildfire Mitigation
Ecosystem Risk and Resiliency
An Environmental Scientist Works the Problem: a conversation with one of the lead researchers at EPRI.
EPRI and NERC Collaborate to Enhance Grid Resilience
Resiliency
A conversation with NERC’s chief engineer and EPRI’s vice president for transmission and distribution.
In-Person at NARUC Summer Policy Summit
NARUC
What the PUF team saw and heard in Denver.
What Will You Do This Fall?
Season of Promise
In-person conferences vs. hybrids vs. virtual only: The pandemic has taught us that each has its pitfalls.
Commissioner Anthony O'Donnell
Excerpted from August’s Public Utilities Fortnightly cover article on the Maryland PSC, on page 20:
“No, we are not political. We all carry our life’s experience with us, and we all carry our viewpoints with us, of course. If you’re human, you have to. But we are not overtly political.
We try to stay away from that when we deliberate. We have three Republicans, and two Democrats, and that’s by design. It’s not a forced distribution, but it’s healthy to have various perspectives.
Commissioner Mindy Herman
Excerpted from August’s Public Utilities Fortnightly cover article on the Maryland PSC:
“I have an extensive background in the industry. I started right before law school. It was hard to get a job back in the early eighties, but I got a job as a Xerox girl at a law firm.
Three Transmission Projects to Complete
Excerpted from August’s Public Utilities Fortnightly article by United Power CEO Mark Gabriel, former WAPA Administrator, on page 20:
“With even the simplest transmission project taking a decade or more, we should take some specific, short- and medium-term actions. … So, what projects do I believe can and should be done today? Rebuild the seven AC/DC ties between the Eastern and Western grid. At a cost of roughly thirty million, this project could be complete in less than eighteen months.