Talking Power and Regulation at CERAWeek by S&P Global
CERAWeek
This year, over eight thousand attended CERAWeek.
Law & Lawyers
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.”
2023 Veterans in Energy's Leadership Forum
Unique Conversations
Conversation with Veterans in Energy President and Southern Company’s Cassandra Wheeler.
The Experts: Turbines
PSM
“We have transformed PSM into a global business, where we can tackle, within the constraints perhaps of certain fleets, the entire gas turbine engine. That’s what I’m proud of.”
Engineering Cybersecurity
Burns & McDonnell/1898 & Co.
“Nobody wants to touch a 20-year-old server, PLC, HMI or human machine interface, an engineering workstation in operational environment, and allow some computer or automated capability to block it. Putting automated detection and response capabilities in place for critical infrastructure is, for lack of a better term, critical.”
The Experts: Grid Connections
S&C Electric
“We must focus on distribution, specifically undergrounding and other grid hardening efforts. We need to be prepared as an industry. We are extremely focused on innovating an intelligent, resilient grid that can mitigate and recover.”