Law & Lawyers

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.”

The Experts: Distribution Data

Itron

“You now can start to map and understand in real time what’s happening across the distribution grid to make things more efficient for the end consumer and utility. We can save natural resources; we can reduce costs of operation.”

Regulating Utility Data

West Monroe

“The reality is that how regulators rule on the accessibility and availability of utility data may determine whether a state can remotely achieve state decarbonization goals.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big

EPRI et al.

Excerpted remarks at “Investing in Advanced Nuclear Energy,” hosted in New York by EPRI, EEI, NEI, Guggenheim Securities, Nuclear Innovation Alliance.

AEIC Members Share Cost Optimization Approaches

Innovating the Grid Transformation

“Con Edison developed an auto-scheduler application that integrates key data into a single platform by leveraging technology and knowledge of seasoned employees to develop business logic for planning and decision making. Dominion Energy launched a net metering chatbot that utilizes machine learning to more efficiently provide information to customers.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big: Kelly Cummins

DOE

“The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was born out of the Infrastructure Act. We oversee more than 25 billion in clean energy technology. We transferred over to this new office from the Office of Nuclear Energy, two advanced reactor demonstration projects, the X-energy project and TerraPower Natrium project.”