Law & Lawyers

Powering the People: DTE Energy

Edison Foundation

“We’re pivoting our model and taking a broader approach to say, where can we have a dedicated low-income team that is not just helping when someone has a problem with bills but is there when they are onboarding and when they’re setting up their service to get a better sense of what the profile is of that user.”
Byline: 

Jonathan Hirte

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A Leading Role for Technical Requirements in Grid Transformation

The Art of Storytelling

“If the utilities that own the current assets and their operational experts who understand how the grid works don’t become better educators and storytellers about the technical needs of grid transformation, then they risk future misalignment of business and regulatory models that could negatively impact operations and financial stability.”
Byline: 

Elizabeth Cook

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Powering the People: Oracle

Edison Foundation

“We’re normalizing it by letting folks know how many people in their area, territory, zip code, are participating in programs. We’re letting them know it’s normal in their neighborhood, giving them exact data, so folks understand it’s not only those folks who are that check away from poverty, but a lot are going in and out of these programs over time.”
Byline: 

Matt O’Keefe

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Powering the People: Fortis

Edison Foundation

“It’s not about flattening the load; it’s about shaping the load to match your resources. This is weird, so it’s not resources following load, necessarily, there’s still a lot of that going on, but this is also a conversation about load following resources. That’s how this has changed.”
Byline: 

Dave Hutchens

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What's in Store in Twenty-Four?

Scylla and Charybdis

As we contemplate how we, in the fashion of Odysseus, shall confront the various Scylla and Charybdis of the new year, it is good to remember the strengths of our ship at sea.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Powering the People: Uplight

Edison Foundation

“On markets and policy, which is what I hold near and dear to my heart, there’s a lot of work to be done. There’re just problems all over the market as we’re trying to figure out how to structure programs or policies to make demand flexibility work in the residential sector.”
Byline: 

Neil Veilleux

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Last Dots Connected

NARUC Annual Meeting

NARUC held its Annual Meeting and Education Conference in California inNovember, closing out three years of the theme, “Connecting the Dots, Innovative/Disruptive Technology and Regulation.” NARUC President Michael Caron passed the torch on to North Dakota Commissioner Julie Fedorchak, who as NARUC’s new President will make history with the first all-female leadership of the Association, with Georgia’s Tricia Pridemore as First Vice President and Washington’s Ann Rendahl as Second Vice President.
Byline: 

NARUC

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Powering the People: Bidgely

Edison Foundation

“You have to start with a small win before your utility will trust larger things with AI, but utilities aren’t going to be able to deliver clean energy in a scalable, cost-effective, reliable way without AI.”
Byline: 

Maria Kretzing

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