Electrifying Industrial and Commercial Customers
Electrification 2020 Track C
Conversation about Electrification 2020’s Track C with EPRI’s principal technical leader.
Law & Lawyers
Hawaiian Electric: Christian Whitney
Director for Pole Infrastructure Enterprise
“In order for anyone to accomplish their sustainability goals or for Hawaiian Electric to accomplish our reliability goals, the future is all in the telecom and the technology.”
From Meter Reader to CEO
Career Reflections
Conversation with John Hargrove, retiring CEO of the Association of Energy Service Professionals
Electrification and the Modern Grid
Electrification 2020 Track D
Conversation about Electrification 2020’s Track D with EPRI senior program manager, distributed energy resources and energy storage.
Hawaiian Electric: Yoh Kawanami
Co-director for Customer Energy Resources
“Community Based Renewable Energy is where you have a solar farm but people that live in a condo or have an odd-shaped roof may be able to invest in those panels and get a bill credit as if they have rooftop solar.”
Affordable Utility Service
Advice to Regulators
One notion of fairness is the affordability of utility services to all households, including those living in poverty.
Community and Customer Benefits of Electrification
Electrification 2020 Track E
Conversations about Electrification 2020’s Track E with EPRI’s principal technical executive, energy systems and climate analysis Tom Wilson, and senior technical executive Omar Siddiqui.
Hawaiian Electric: Leland Cockcroft and Robert Kaneshiro
Hawaii Electric Light subsidiary
“We have four cross-island transmission lines of 69 kV. During that storm, three of them got affected, so we only had one transmission line remaining across the island.”
Innovation: The Path for Smaller Utilities
Nurturing Ideas
The regulatory model for electricity supply generally does not incent utilities to innovate.
Policy Landscape for More Electrified Economy
Electrification 2020 Track F
Conversation about Electrification 2020’s Track F with EPRI’s senior manager for government and external relations.