"I Bought the Company"
“Hello. I’m Victor Kiam… I was delighted and impressed. So impressed, I bought the company.”
The Next Generation
"Utility regulation and policy: the final frontier..."
Mason Willrich's Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure
Book Review
Just about everyone agrees that the nation's electricity infrastructure needs to be modernized. But where should one begin? How long will the process take? How much should be spent on modernization? What portion of the modernization budget should go to generation, transmission, and distribution? What specific technologies should be developed?
These are difficult questions that have no easy answers. A new book by Mason Willrich takes these questions head-on and provides some good answers.
Avoiding Institutional Inertia
Energizing Innovation
Sustaining innovation over the long-term means positioning it as a fundamental capability of the enterprise.
QF Purchase Obligation
Energy Bar Association’s Energy Law Series
Making Clear Distinctions: Part of the problem is incorrectly using “waiver” and “termination” interchangeably.
Government, Utilities, Public Interacting
An Evolving Conundrum
The key is to utilize the Internet of Things to enable real-time communication of data, ideas, policy preferences, and decision-making.
Remember to Breathe: Quick and Clean Infrastructure
Not Mission: Impossible
Every bill seems tough to move on the Hill these days. One possible exception? Infrastructure.
Did the FCC Get It Right this Time?
Ambiguity and Uncertainty
The FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom order is in many respects a vast improvement, but it has its own imperfections.
Are You Missing This Key Chief Officer?
Meeting New Challenges
The growing consensus among power and utility executives is that digital technologies and "digitization" are becoming a strategic and risk mitigation imperative. Faced with rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes, many leaders are rethinking how they can tackle new issues in new ways.
FERC Grants Edison's Wish
Opening Marketplace to Storage
Thomas Edison foreshadowed the potential for energy storage as early as 1883.