Law & Lawyers

DistribuTECH: Mahesh Sudhakaran

GE

“We are proud to have announced the world’s first portfolio designed for grid orchestration, GridOS, which pulls the capabilities required to orchestrate the grid onto one platform so utilities can orchestrate at scale. This is where we are differentiating and leading.”
Byline: 

Mahesh Sudhakaran

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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.”
Byline: 

Chris Jones

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DistribuTECH: Anthony Allard

Hitachi Energy

“We have a number of other projects, and we talk about the offshore wind that is ongoing and moving in the U.S. A lot of those offshore wind farms will need new HVDC technology to bring the power back to shore.”
Byline: 

Anthony Allard

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DR for the Home

SPAN

“What’s unique about this panel is it enables a homeowner to understand what is consuming energy in the home. That allows a few unique effects. Number one, we are able to avoid utility service upgrades if you are electrifying your home, and if you have less than two hundred amps.”
Byline: 

Hannah Bascom

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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.”
Byline: 

Buddy Hasten

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AEIC Member Spotlight on Tampa Electric

AEIC

“The Big Bend modernization project was completed on time and under budget despite challenges to dismantlement of the coal-fired unit, need to construct a large pipe bridge over a canal, and impact of the ongoing global pandemic.”
Byline: 

Steve Hauser

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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.”
Byline: 

Suzanne Lane

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DistribuTECH: Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi

OATI

“We are bullish about combining our capabilities on transmission with distribution, bringing the two together, and then with emergence of the whole decarbonization initiative. That is a necessary element to tap on flexibilities available on the demand side to provide balancing services needed on the wholesale side.”
Byline: 

Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi

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