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GTI Energy as a Factory of Innovation

Top Innovators 2023

“A lot of innovation is not just about the technologies and the people behind them, it’s also about consensus from across sectors on what we’re collectively trying to achieve. Having collaborations that bring in academics, NGOs, investors, and a wide variety of participants can help alleviate polarization.”

End of Day Discussion, Digital, AI, Planning

Top Innovators 2023

“It’s having locational pricing at a community aggregation level and being able to actively participate in a retail market and bring your products and services to the table, to provide real value to the grid by lowering demand, and the grid operator needs that demand to be reduced. That kind of innovation if it can happen, is a game-changer.”

Culture of Innovation

Top Innovators 2023

“Whatever innovation you’re going to do involves a bit of risk, most likely because it hasn’t been proven. How do utilities effectively link their innovation strategies with risk management?”

Innovation and Customer Affordability

Top Innovators 2023

“We’ve seen the cost declines often lag for customers in ways that they may see technology as being ready, but it’s not showing up as a meaningful bill impact. Where are some gaps between perception and reality?”

Innovation in Tough Tech

Top Innovators 2023

“How do we drill so we can access high-grade heat at 3, 6, even 10 miles underground? We’re pursuing this solution, millimeter-wave drilling, developed by at the MIT Plasma Science Fusion Center. We’re utilizing nuclear fusion technology to replace conventional drilling.”

Santa to Slide Down Your Carbon Emission-Free Chimney

Christmas and Electricity

General Electric began selling pre-assembled Christmas light kits in 1903. Until then, lighting your tree electrically was expensive and the installation, complicated. Toy electric trains started out as a store window display that would draw the attention of shoppers to the store.

State Regulators Leading the Way

NARUC

“Reliability and affordability will be center stage this next year, and I have encouraged committee chairs to address these issues in meetings. I look forward to healthy debates about different approaches to decarbonization, new methods for resource planning, permitting, and construction challenges, workforce shortages or proposed EPA regulations.”

A Day at GTI Energy

Unique conversations

GTI Energy embraces a vision for integrated, low-carbon, low-cost energy systems that leverage gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency to meet the urgent challenges presented by climate change and global energy access. To fully comprehend these words, there is nothing like a visit to its eighteen acres of facilities close to Chicago, to take in the depth and breadth of what goes on at these specialized labs with equipment for design, testing, and analysis of advanced energy technologies.

IEEE PES Meeting in Puerto Rico

Smart Grid

The 2023 Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Latin America, sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society, focused on the theme of disaster recovery and network transformation in times of climate change. Puerto Rico’s unique experience with disaster preparedness and recovery in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria was a notable topic of discussion for the convening engineering and climate change experts.