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Challenging Common Excuses for Ignoring Grid Analytics

Heart of Digital Transformation Strategy

The three barriers to grid analytics – fear, uncertainty and doubt – can be overcome. Indeed, if utilities want to remain competitive, they should be. Where companies have moved ahead with successful implementations, the benefits are manifest.
Byline: 

Craig Cavanaugh

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Energy People: Clint Vince

We talked with Clint Vince, chair of the Dentons LLP Energy sector

Clint Vince has directed the expansion of the U.S. energy team to more than 1,000 professionals in 58 countries. His experience involves major project development, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and litigation and appellate cases, including U.S. Supreme Court advocacy.
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Clint Vince, with Pat McMurray

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December Birthdays

Edward Hammer, Bertha Lamme Feicht, William Merrill, Marcel Deprez

Hammer came up with the idea of making the fluorescent into a spiral in the shape of, well, a bulb.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Dripping Electricity

It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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AMI to IoT

Lesson in Change

In today’s Internet of Things, businesses face a strikingly similar picture to what utilities saw in the early days of the smart grid. Consider what those lessons have in store for us today.
Byline: 

Darren Highfill and Brad Bauch

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Facilitating Innovation

Making Regulation a Better Surrogate for Competition

There are some ways, though perhaps modest, for regulators to move their utilities along and encourage appropriate risk taking.
Byline: 

Jeffrey Goltz

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Energy Future in Ohio Corn Fields

Village of Minster, Ohio

The real significance and impact of the Minster project lies in the story behind it. It’s the town’s remarkable ability to complete a privately financed solar-plus-storage installation. The leaders have flown under the radar in a state known as one of the least friendly to renewable energy in the nation.
Byline: 

K Kaufmann

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Residential Demand Charges: Bad Choice

Time-of-Use is a Better Reform

Utilities go too far in their proposals to recover capacity costs from rooftop solar customers who self-generate. The affirmative case for Time-of-Use tariffs that reflect marginal costs is strong for all customers.
Byline: 

Charles Cicchetti

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