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New Jersey BPU: Grace Power and Christine Sadovy

Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff

“This office oversees external facing facets of the BPU, including Communications and Legislation, as well as internal operations, such as Fiscal, IT, and HR. The technical divisions, such as Clean Energy, Water, and Reliability and Security, report to the Executive Director’s office.”
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Grace Power and Christine Sadovy

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New Jersey BPU: Paul Flanagan

Executive Director

“In a litigated matter, this office works between the Commissioners and the Staff to make sure information flows both ways, and is correct and complete, so that the policymakers can make decisions, and the divisions know what those policy calls are and how they should be implemented.”
Byline: 

Paul Flanagan

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Ensuring Future Capital Access

Utilities Prepare for ESG Financial Challenges

The financial community as a group has not yet moved toward aggressive adoption of socially responsible investing. The utilities sector will need to be creative in future capital sourcing given its massive future capital needs for deployment to clean technologies, grid and network modernization, and digitalization.
Byline: 

Tom Fanning, Kevin Fitzgerald, and Tom Flaherty

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Coronavirus Challenge

A Special Report

For this special feature on utilities and utility regulators meeting the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, Public Utilities Fortnightly went to two of the top experts on the grid's resilience. We like to call Scott Aaronson the most important individual in America, only half in jest. Scott leads the teams at the Edison Electric Institute focused on cyber and physical security and storm response and recovery and is the EEI's point man in this current crisis.

Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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EV, AI, DSM, DER, etc.

Tech Buzzword Trajectories

Conversation with Scott Neuman and Paul McDonald, group vp and senior director for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities Opower.
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Scott Neuman and Paul McDonald

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New Jersey BPU: Julie Ford-Williams

Director of Customer Assistance

“Most challenging is trying to get customers to understand that if they pay something, if they try to keep up as best they can, that the utilities will work with them.”
Byline: 

Julie Ford-Williams

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