Law & Lawyers

Idaho National Lab on Distributed Energy

Microgrids

“The Microgrid in a Box can be plugged in just about anywhere. You would need a step-up transformer for the utility connection. Normally, to try to serve a building with it, but also have it tied to distribution, you’d be between the utility distribution transformer and the building.”

Maria Telkes Top Innovator Award for Distributed Energy: Arizona Public Service Company

Top Innovators

“The team has been responsible for scaling our DR portfolio, which has grown into a Virtual Power Plant. With almost 80,000 thermostats enrolled in Cool Rewards – a smart thermostat program for residential customers – we’re capable of shedding more than 110 MW of energy demand. That’s equivalent of a small power plant, or 15,000 homes.”

Fusion Center Cybersecurity

Kansas

“All Fusion Centers have access to relevant threat information that gets pushed out by the federal government, so I would highly encourage every utility to reach out to their Fusion Centers and see if there are ways they could partner with them on physical and cyber threats, if they aren’t doing so already.”

Harnessing AI and Computational Speed

The Clean Energy Transition

“Artificial intelligence (AI), advances in computational speed, and algorithms can help support the clean energy transition. Our industry is moving toward a greater understanding and utilization of these new technological capabilities that are already impacting our clean energy pathways.”

Francis Upton Top Innovator Award for Analytics: CMS Energy

Top Innovators

“The two pieces are for wind generation for drivetrains and solar module performance. The system of analytics we have created is a dashboard screen for an entire site. We could expand that to an entire fleet. By pre-alarming on a wind turbine, the display will indicate an anomaly through statistical analytics. Allowing for inspection and repair prior to the unit coming offline for a fault.”

A Legacy of Industry Leadership

AEIC’s 139th Annual Meeting

“As we gather for the 139th time this month in Savannah, AEIC is still very much guided by our forebearers’ vision to work collaboratively, gather information, and exchange ideas to benefit all members.”

William Hammer Top Innovator Award for Electrification: BGE

Top Innovators

“We started with idle mitigation systems because EV options are limited on medium and heavy truck chassis. With the aggressive goals we have by 2025 and 2030, we had to find another way to achieve those targets and the idle mitigation systems count toward the goals.”