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.
Law & Lawyers
Reflections from The Room Where It Happened
Leadership Lyceum Podcast Summary
Conversation on M&A: Former CEOs of PHI and NiSource/CPG, Joe Rigby and Bob Skaggs, and Director Les Silverman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Challenge of Commercialization
Turning Ideas into Value
Utilities will need to master, on their way to successful innovation commercialization, the ability to think like their future competitors.
Grand Theft with Capital Recovery
Western utility economics puzzle former Communists
I am not sure how many older generation post-communist managers stayed in such positions after the introduction of capitalism and national programs of commercialization and privatization. Under the communist system, the public utility services bill was based on pricing principles far removed from any notion of the cost of the services.
Watch Your Language
Beware of Utility Lingo in Customer-centric World
To be heard, utilities must change the habit of relying on rate case jargon for customer communications.