NRECA's PowerXchange: Jim Matheson
NRECA
“We’re different because we’re not like for-profit entities. We serve usually the hardest to the most expensive places in America based on lack of population density.”
Law & Lawyers
NRECA's PowerXchange: Chris Jones
Middle Tennessee Electric
“To best serve our fast-growing service area and meet evolving member expectations, we have engaged in strategic acquisitions, which is a bit unique for the co-op space. We delivered broadband. We acquired a local for-profit telephone company, United Communications.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Buddy Hasten
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas
“Our challenge is the pace at which people are being forced into a clean-energy transition with resources that don’t have the capability to carry the load. We’re seeing blackouts. For us, it’s maybe slowing things down a bit.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Suzanne Lane
Kansas Electric Power Cooperative
“For Winter Storm Uri in 2021, we were part of those historic curtailments. That highlighted we can’t continue our traditional mindset that reliability is keeping wires in the air. That was the old way of thinking. It has evolved into the fuel deliverability, availability aspects of it.”
Picture Energy: America's Electric Co-ops Meet in Nashville
NRECA's PowerXchange
Enjoy photos of what went on in Nashville.
How Exelon Shows Up in Its Communities
Exelon
“What’s unique about Exelon is we serve urban dense areas, as well as rural America. Think about the coastal and rural areas in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. With ComEd, the northern part of its Illinois territory, Rockford, DeKalb.”
EEI Briefs Wall Street on Electric Industry's Outlook
Edison Electric Institute
PUF’s Selected Excerpts of Presentations by EEI’s Tom Kuhn, Brian Wolff, Emily Fisher, Phil Moeller, and Richard McMahon.
Who Said What at DistribuTECH
Unique Conversations
Conversations with ABB’s John Hayter, Nedra Hurley; Accenture’s Patrick Aluise; AiDash’s Abhishek Singh; AVEVA’s Ann Moore; Bentley Systems’ Joe Travis, Brad Johnson; Bidgely’s Gautam Aggarwal, Maria Kretzing; Capgemini’s Hari Krishnamurthy; FLO’s Chris Thorson, Frank Fata, Nathan Yang; GE’s Mahesh Sudhakaran; Hitachi’s Anthony Allard; IBM’s Casey Werth; OATI’s Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi; Oracle’s Brad Harkavy, Sameer Kalra, Allison Salke, Mary Sprayregen; PXiSE’s Patrick Lee; and Toshiba’s Jeff Simmons.
DistribuTECH: John Hayter, Nedra Hurley
ABB
“Imagine a line person who would go out during a storm facing hurricanes, tornadoes, and operate with hook sticks. Those days are coming to an end. With virtual protection, virtual substations of the future, a lot of those concerns around safety go away.”
DistribuTECH: Patrick Aluise
Accenture
“We have data around companies that lean into a metaverse/sustainable strategy. It’s more profitable. That has to do with retaining better employees and cost savings because, from onboarding and ongoing training points of view, you don’t have to send people all over the world.”