Picture Energy: Investing in Advanced Nuclear Energy
Memorable Moments
Photos from the New York City gathering of tech, financial, and industry leaders.
Law & Lawyers
Paul Lau, Leader of California Large Public Power Utility
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
“Though it’s a small percentage of the norm, we must strengthen the grid to plan for those extreme cases, which in the past we never had to do. This is a paradigm shift for the industry.”
Big Breakthrough in Transmission Transfer Capacity
TS Conductor
“The average wait for renewable farms, such as solar or wind farms to connect to the grid is 3.5 years. We can instantly change that just by swapping out the old conductors one-for-one with the TS conductor, as you can easily double, triple the capacity in the grid.”
Transforming Energy
Exelon, AWS, EDP
Conversations with Exelon Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Sunny Elebua, Amazon Web Services Head of Worldwide Business Development – Energy and Utilities Rolf Gibbels, EDP Renewables North America CEO Sandhya Ganapathy, at CERAWeek by S&P Global.
Looking Back on Two Extraordinary Careers in Utilities and Regulation
Unique Conversations
Conversations with former Con Edison Senior Vice President, Frances Resheske; former FERC and Wisconsin PSC Commissioner and utility CEO, Branko Terzic.
Transforming Energy: Exelon
CERAWeek by S&P Global
“We’ve made investments to ensure our reliability is essentially top quartile and, in some instances, top decile, for example as we have at ComEd. We know the grid is ready to accept levels of electrification.”
Extraordinary Careers: Frances Resheske
Con Edison
“I expected everyone who worked in my department to understand the business. You had to learn the business. The corporate affairs function is respected when you know the business.”
Transforming Energy: AWS
CERAWeek by S&P Global
“We always start with the customer and find ways to enhance that experience through the cloud. Utilities look to the cloud because they can quickly spin up resources as they need them and only pay for what is used, similar to a pay-as-you-go model.”
Extraordinary Careers: Branko Terzic
FERC, Wisconsin PSC
“I said, ‘Let’s put them all into one mega-notice of proposed rulemaking and do one large integrated package.’ Out of that came Order 636, which unbundled the natural gas industry, restructured it, introduced new straight variable rate design, capacity release, and packages that made our natural gas pipeline industry more efficient than ever.”
Transforming Energy: EDP
CERAWeek by S&P Global
“Globally, we are the fourth largest renewable supplier in the world. In the U.S., we have more than 8 GW of operational utility-scale wind and solar capacity. That’s almost 5% of the entire market. Both are growing exponentially year-over-year.”