Vogtle Tour
Picture Energy
PUF toured the Vogtle 3 - 4 nuclear power construction site near Augusta GA on March 1, 2017. At four times the size of New York's Central Park, this place is huge.
Law & Lawyers
Envisioning the Energy Future
EPRI Podcast: Key Is Integrated Resource Planning
Flexibility, electrification, distributed solar, and smart inverters are familiar terms in today's utility environment, but they are of particular relevance to integrated resource planners. EPRI's Mark McGranaghan, Vice President of Distribution and Energy Utilization, touched on these topics, and a few more, in our latest EPRI Unplugged conversation.
American Public Power Association Legislative Rally
PUF attended the American Public Power Association legislative rally in Washington DC on March 1. Photographer: Dennis Brack
Rebuilding the European Electric Grid
USEA Assistance Followed Breakdown of Soviet Union
In 1991, Eastern European countries and the former Soviet republics responded to a completely different set of incentives and policy drivers for the development of their utilities. USEA, together with other implementing partners of the agency, was tasked to help change the mentality of folks that worked in these utilities.
Thomas Edison Encourages a Young Henry Ford
Edison to Ford: 'Young man, that's the thing; you have it. Keep at it.' From the Archives of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies
It came at the end of the main banquet at the 1896 annual meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, AEIC. The setting was the stately Oriental Hotel in Manhattan Beach, in Brooklyn, New York. A group of the nation's technical and business leaders remained at their table to smoke cigars and talk of the events of the day.
AEIC was founded in 1885 at the dawn of the Age of Electricity. At the 1896 meeting, forty-four power men from eighteen illuminating companies were in attendance.
Cold Hard Truths
Who shall lay out those constraints, clearly, credibly?
What are the coldest hardest truths that a much more involved public must grasp?
Innovation's Emerging Challenge
Sharpening the Focus
The utility industry’s focus on innovation is only a few years old and already its champions are finding that addressing increasing business demands is all-consuming.
Joining the Fortis Family
Leadership Lyceum Podcast: A Conversation with Paul Bonavia
Paul Bonavia is Retired Chairman and CEO of UNS Energy (Tucson Electric Power). The company was sold to Fortis in August 2014.
Whale Tale
Transitions are Complex Affairs
It’s tempting to idealize how market forces shape the outcome of energy transitions. The truth is that many factors affect what happens and how fast. Notably, government policies play a greater role in shaping energy than most care to admit.
AABE Conference
Here’s a peek at the 2017 American Association of Blacks in Energy’s Conference