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Mason Willrich's Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure

Book Review

Just about everyone agrees that the nation's electricity infrastructure needs to be modernized. But where should one begin? How long will the process take? How much should be spent on modernization? What portion of the modernization budget should go to generation, transmission, and distribution? What specific technologies should be developed?

These are difficult questions that have no easy answers. A new book by Mason Willrich takes these questions head-on and provides some good answers.

Byline: 

Ahmad Faruqui

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Gas Naturals

IRENA’s Dolf Gielen Readies for June’s World Gas Conference

Countries realize they have significant renewables potential, but they face challenges in developing bankable project proposals.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick, with Dolf Gielen

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Power Profile: Jan Vrins Talks Clouds

Navigant’s Global Energy Practice Leader

Day to day, we’re focused on where technology meets policy and regulation, and its impact on organizations, business models and operations.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick, with Jan Vrins

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In Diversity There is Energy

Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion. Glorious Additions to the Strings

Diverse teams tend to be more curious, dynamic, creative. Groupthink is less likely, anticipating the unanticipated, more likely.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Energy's Spend and Workplace Diversity

Why leaders drive diversity

Economists can show how buyers benefit when there is a broader pool of sellers competing with each other. This is true whether a buyer is a family looking for a restaurant meal or a utility seeking a new hire or a contractor. In the following nine conversations with utility execs and regulators and others in our industry, we heard again and again how diversity spend and diversity in the workplace increases competition and rewards companies and their consumers. Check out what leaders at Duke Energy, Exelon/BGE, Sempra/SDG&E, etc. told us about why they drive diversity:

Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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