Community Dialogue and Sustainability for Effective Vegetation Management
On Incompatible Trees
We define incompatible trees and shrubs as those that potentially can grow to the point of interfering with transmission assets.
Necessity Still Mother of Invention
Look at German Grid
Germany is politically united to close all remaining nuclear plants by the end of 2022 – but its coal generation will live on to at least 2038.
Tomorrow's Power Strategies
Global Top 40 Utility Actions
Strategy& (part of the PwC network) recently published an analysis of the strategies of the Global Top 40 utilities — peer group scale and shifts, what they are accomplishing and where these companies are positioning themselves to pursue growth.
Matt Olson and Bruce Albright on LTE Networks
Engineering the Future
Utilities need a communications infrastructure that is as reliable or even more reliable than the grid.
Tony Appleton on Offshore Wind
Engineering the Future
"We’re talking thousands of jobs being potentially created on that eastern seaboard."
Engineering Offshore Wind and LTE Networks
Burns & McDonnell
Conversations with Tony Appleton, Bruce Albright and Matt Olson, Burns & McDonnell.
CEOs Talk Innovation: Tom Fanning
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Turns out there’s more people that have an innovation gene, but they had subordinated it. We started some things to celebrate the revolutionary in us all."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Leo Denault
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Continuous innovation allows us to provide a critical service at a price point that is phenomenal."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Chris Crane
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"We were able to get regulatory approval to own storage and that’s a big step. You have to be willing to partner."
CEOs Talk Innovation: Warner Baxter
AEP, Ameren, Entergy, Exelon, Southern
"Innovative new products and services will help us get even closer to our customers."