Videos: gridConnext 2017
Videos
Here are videos from the event with Gil Quiniones, Spencer Gray, Steve Martin and Jack Betkoski.
Picture Energy: NYPA Opening of Integrated Smart Operations Center
The New York Power Authority took a big step on December 11 when it opened its Integrated Smart Operations Center (ISOC). Here is how NYPA CEO Gil Quiniones described ISOC at the recent gridConnext 2017 event:
“With this, we are digitizing, working with GE hand-in-hand with their Predix platform. We are digitizing and creating digital twins of our power plants, our substations and transmission systems, to really increase the operational efficiencies, reliability, and availability. And to optimize our capital and O&M spend.”
The Smart Thermostat
Buying One and Using One
Utilities can serve as a resource on which smart thermostats to buy and how to use them.
Whither Section 2(b), That is The Question
Potential Change Needs Scrutiny
The FCC is urging the Court to prohibit state regulation for a large segment of local telephone service.
The Impact of Shorter Netting
Increased Uncertainty for Consumers
Policies changed the ‘netting period’ over which net exports or imports are determined.
Bright Ideas Deliver Affordable Lighting
With upfront costs a major barrier to LED lighting, Nuru Energy focused on changing the business equation.
Book Review of 'California Goes Green'
Michael Peevey’s History Considered
An engaging read for anyone who wants to understand how energy policies are made in the Golden State.
Energy Efficiency: The Art of Measurement
Modernizing Measurement & Verification
EM&V is the key to understanding if investments in energy efficiency produce the expected returns in savings.
Should FERC Reconsider Policy Statement on Pipeline Certification?
Natural Gas Policy May be Outdated
FERC has the obligation to consider the environmental consequences of major projects, but assessing their effects on climate change, let alone measuring them, overstretches
its capability.
From RWE
Innovating Business Models
By splitting RWE into two organizations, we created two valid companies on the stock market, with a more specific purpose and valid value proposition for each.