Profiles in Innovation: Dave Geier and Stephen Johnston
San Diego Gas & Electric
Their project prevents mylar balloons from causing a blackout or fire when they float into a power line.
Law & Lawyers
Profiles in Innovation: Alyssa Grigoryan, Kathy Hidalgo, Sunanda Singh, Lucero Vargas
Southern California Edison
California’s utilities are using drones, sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to reduce wildfire risk in ways that would seem like science fiction a few years ago.
When We Think About Innovation
Black & Veatch
“If you’re not improving, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind.”
EIP Impacting Energy
Energy Impact Partners
“We work with our utility partner’s organizations, and understand, is this a technology that is going to move the needle around growth, or around reducing O&M costs?”
Elections Done. Regrets and No Regrets.
Priorities, Priorities, Priorities
I asked a gaggle of our industry’s top thinkers to tell us their thoughts on the nation’s agenda for energy and utilities.
Election 2020, Now What?
Energy and Utilities’ Priorities
NCSL’s Take and Essays by Clint Vince and Andrew Shaw, Jan Vrins, Casey Herman, Joe Brannan, Mandy Olson, Zolaikha Strong, Clark Gellings and Ahmad Faruqui, Val Jensen, and Tanuj Deora.
NCSL's Take on the Elections
Election 2020
A conversation with National Conference of State Legislatures’ Kristy Hartman and Glen Andersen with PUF’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Mitnick and Tom Sloan, recently retired from the Kansas State legislature.
Ambitious Climate Change and Energy Agenda
Facing Historic Crises
President-Elect Joe Biden listed climate change as one of the four historic crises facing the U.S., along with COVID-19, the economic downturn, and racial injustice.
The Energy Transition
Not Taking Detours
The U.S. is expected to re-join the Paris climate agreement and other international platforms.
Clean Energy to Advance, Obstacles Linger
Gray Rhinos, Tax Policies
Energy executives had already expressed concern over U.S. corporate tax policy under a Biden administration.