Picture Energy: Global Grid Forum, Vancouver BC
September 10-11
Sessions addressed strategies for maximizing value from existing transmission assets, and more.
Law & Lawyers
Top Innovators: ABB
Profiles in Innovation
Luiz Cheim: In 15 to 20 years, nobody will do transformer inspections with humans.
Cybersecurity: Bruce Walker
Prepare, Protect, Respond
“Approach the sector as if it has already been compromised and recognize that the system was designed before computers were available.”
Picture Energy: 2019 Veterans in Energy Forum, Washington D.C.
September 11-13
Veterans in Energy met this year in Washington, D.C. to accommodate growing numbers.
Top Innovators: EPRI's Kirk Ellison and Jeffery Preece
Profiles in Innovation
A conversation with Kirk Ellison and Jeffery Preece.
Cybersecurity: Tom Fanning
Prepare, Protect, Respond
“There is a fast approaching environment where it won’t be humans to machines but rather machines to machine. Now your millions of times a day could be trillions.”
Picture Energy: Institute for Energy Innovation’s Powering the People, Washington D.C.
September 24
Amazing panels at the Newseum celebrated advances in electric transportation.
Top Innovators: EPRI's Charles Vinsonhaler
Profiles in Innovation
Charles Vinsonhaler: Value is specific to a utility. A company thinks about sustainability value from an internal perspective.
Cybersecurity: Bill Spence
Prepare, Protect, Respond
“EEI members have stood up a host of programs, such as the spare transformer, critical equipment sharing, cyber mutual assistance, and cyber risk information sharing programs we developed in cooperation with DOE and NERC.”
Sam Insull, Bill Nye, and the Urge to Innovate
Recapturing Our Industry’s Spirit
Utility people are at their best when they're innovating to fulfill the potential, as Bill Nye says, to change the world.