Managing Risk of Innovation Deployment
An Insurance Model
If the new technology is not successful, customers may pay for both the failed experiment and the energy or technology to replace the failed equipment.
Law & Lawyers
EEI Meets on the Left Coast: EEI's 2018 Annual Convention
Picture Energy
Magnificent San Diego weather. So much to do, from grazing at the zoo to glimpsing the Pacific Fleet base. Yet the many hundreds of attendees clustered in the convention's conference rooms most of the time to take in the topics of the day, resilience, renewable integration, cybersecurity, new regulatory and business models, workforce diversity and inclusion, electrification of transportation, and energy storage. See the magazine layout and photos here.
Nikola Tesla Meets Popular Culture
Birthdays
In its second season, “Epic Rap Battles of History,” the YouTube web series, featured Nikola Tesla versus Thomas Edison, referring to the Battle of the Currents.
Navajo Nation Electrification
A Moral Imperative
More than 60,000 people within Arizona, Utah and New Mexico are without access to electricity. Light Up the Navajo Nation aims to solve that.
Four CEOs on Innovation
Sustaining Momentum
A virtual roundtable with Patti Poppe of CMS Energy, Scott Prochazka of CenterPoint Energy, Connie Lau of Hawaiian Electric Industries and Ben Fowke of Xcel Energy.
Four CEOs on Innovation: Patti Poppe
CEO, CMS Energy
“We zero in on innovation and solutions closest to the work, by people who have human struggle, to eliminate waste and get our work done right the first time.”
Four CEOs on Innovation: Scott Prochazka
CEO, Centerpoint Energy
The key question is how to evolve an organization so it’s anticipating and has strategies for major disruptions.
Four CEOs on Innovation: Ben Fowke
CEO, Xcel Energy
Customers are not comparing us to another utility, they’re comparing us to Amazon, FedEx, and Domino’s Pizza.
Four CEOs on Innovation: Connie Lau
CEO, Hawaiian Electric
“You have to be able to match people’s dreams of a world powered by clean energy with the realities of technology and economics.”
Four Thought-Leaders: Thoughts on Our Future
Pace of change is causing significant disruption
Electrification of everything, steel for fuel, future of gas, new business and regulation models, innovation, black swans.