Videos: gridConnext 2017
Videos
Here are videos from the event with Gil Quiniones, Spencer Gray, Steve Martin and Jack Betkoski.
Law & Lawyers
Storms, Rates, Insurance
Entire Economy Pays Price
This past year three hurricanes affected an area which encompassed about eight percent of the U.S. population. According to an article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post, dated November 19, 2017, “Disaster claims soar in year of calamities: Federal resources stretched as applications for aid rise tenfold,” these three storms contributed to a year of “record setting disasters.”
4.7 million Americans registered for FEMA aid compared to four hundred eighty thousand in 2016, and an average of a hundred and eighty thousand for the previous three years.
Picture Energy: FERC Chair Chatterjee at Natural Gas Roundtable
It was a packed house. The FERC Chair, now Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, was the guest speaker at the Natural Gas Roundtable’s November 30 luncheon.
He started by saying he would not discuss the Energy Secretary’s grid resiliency pricing NOPR. And with a wry smile, invited anyone present to leave if that’s the only reason they had come.
Ten Predictions for 2018
NOPR Over and Over. Bills Lower and Lower.
Energy storage will advance, electrification will pick up, allowed rates of return will be reconsidered.
Pic of the Month: Texas Markets Roundtable
Before the holidays, Public Utilities Fortnightly held a roundtable in Houston with four thought leaders on the unique Texas wholesale and retail markets. For a couple of hours former FERC Chair Pat Wood, Centerpoint SVP Kenny Mercado, Direct Energy EVP Jim Steffes and Rice University Professor Ken Medlock had a lively discussion spurred on by PUF’s Editor-in-Chief.
CFO Roundtable, Part II
More Strategy in the CFO’s Responsibilities
A discussion with Bob Frenzel, CFO, Xcel Energy; Marty Lyons, CFO, Ameren; and Drew Marsh, CFO, Entergy.
Grid Investing
Why We Invest
Investing is noble. Investment is a journey of patience, discipline, dogged persistence.
Innovation Leaders' Roundtable, Part II
With senior executives from across utilities
With Dave Christian,Dominion Energy; Chris Gould, Exelon; Don Clevenger, Oncor; and Bert Valdman, Optimum Energy.
Grid Impact from High-Altitude Nuclear Attack
A single piece of a very complex puzzle
This is the second study of the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon that generates an EMP.
Innovation's North Star
Management looks internally for momentum
Innovation is most valuable when directed at fulfilling customer needs. Getting commercialization right is critical to value capture.