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.
Law & Lawyers
DistribuTECH: Jeff Simmons
Toshiba
“We’re transitioning and making that move to decarbonize the value chain for our customers. We’re focusing on delivering hydrogen systems and localizing the hydrogen production in the U.S. We’re looking at battery systems and ways to improve grid reliability.”
Accenture 2023 International Utilities and Energy Conference
Memorable Moments in Los Angeles
Accenture’s three day conference in Los Angeles included engaging workshops, presentations, and discussions.
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.
Talking Power and Regulation at CERAWeek by S&P Global
CERAWeek
This year, over eight thousand attended CERAWeek.
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.”
CERAWeek: FERC Chair Willie Phillips
FERC
“Because of my experience at NERC, I view so many of the issues that we have at FERC now through the prism of reliability and resilience.”
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.”
CERAWeek: Texas Panel
Texas PUC, ERCOT, Oncor
“Uri showed us there were two big vulnerabilities in our grid. First, vulnerability to extreme weather events. And second, resource adequacy over longer periods of time.”
DistribuTECH: Abhishek Singh
AiDash
“Our AI model can make predictions in terms of number of outages of an upcoming storm at over 85% accuracy at a subregional level. We know each tree’s nucleus network. We map the height, health of the tree, propensity of the tree to fail against wind speed and windstorm path: we are able to precisely identify points of failures.”