High Tech Meets Energy Tech at EEI's Annual Convention
EEI
PUF presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.
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High Tech Meets Energy Tech: Uplight
EEI 2023
“It is important to get customers to adopt these technologies and then enroll in the programs that utilities want and need them to.”
High Tech Meets Energy Tech: Rondo Energy
EEI 2023
“All that energy must be decarbonized as the world goes to zero. The transportation sector, the grid; we’re getting good at decarbonizing those, despite challenges. But industry is the hard to decarbonize sector. Why? Industrial heat.”
Tom Kuhn: Tom Fanning
Southern Company
“Tom took it upon himself to assure that EEI, as part of now its central mission, was able to support activities like national response events and cyber activity.”
EV Leaders: Con Edison
EV Adoption
“We rolled out 100 publicly accessible stations across the five boroughs. The utilization of curbside chargers has exceeded our expectations. Already the system average is 35% and increasing, with some stations exceeding 50% utilization. New York City has targets to bring 1,000 plugs to the curb by 2025, and 10,000 by 2030.”
Tom Kuhn: Ben Fowke
Xcel Energy
“It starts with building that one voice within the industry. There’re a lot of different CEOs. Everybody has their own playbook, and not everybody agrees on everything. But Tom, under his tenure, has taken building consensus to a new level.”
EV Leaders: Duquesne Light
EV Adoption
“We have a robust transmission system in place because of the heavy industry that operated in Pittsburgh. These industrial giants have since left. Because of this additional capacity, we are well positioned to support EVs, where some utilities might have six- to eight-year challenges around rights-of-way and the building of transmission lines.”
Tom Kuhn: Nick Akins
American Electric Power
“Utilities were focused on what’s happening in the states where they operated and had different opinions about what could be done from a national standpoint. To bring all of that together, Tom’s ability to leverage leaders and others to broker deals was something to behold.”
EV Leaders: Idaho Power
EV Adoption
“We also work with different state agencies, the ones deploying the U.S. DOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funds or before that it was the VW funds. We’ll serve on committees to provide input on how to craft their programs or help promote their incentives once they’re out.”
Tom Kuhn: Pedro Pizarro
Edison International
“He is bipartisan in every sense of the word. Our industry needs to work with all sides of the aisle. There are not just two sides because there are all sorts of shades and he’s been masterful
in navigating us through that.”