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Powering West Africa

Edison Electric Institute

A Conversation with JEM Smart CEO Spero Mensah: We educated employees and stakeholders on the fundamentals of electrifying a country, raised awareness of challenges and opportunities, and transferred knowledge in areas such as electric company planning, operations, maintenance, customer engagement, communications, and financial management.
Byline: 

Lawrence Jones

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NARUC: Tightrope Three

Xcel Energy

“As we’re moving through this clean energy transition, we have to invest in our distribution system and transmission, so we should explore new ways to communicate and collaborate with our Commissions and have conversations about where we’re going because the world is changing faster than it has in the past.”
Byline: 

Ryan Long et al.

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How AI Can Help the U.S. Power Grid

Meeting Rising Demand and Challenges

“Our team at SCE was awarded the 2024 Nikola Tesla Top Innovator Award in Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Waveform Anomaly Recognition (AWARE) – a software platform that uses AI and machine learning to improve detection and location of faults on the grid.”
Byline: 

Heather Rivard

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NARUC: Tightrope Four

Exelon

“When you file an annual rate case, you can’t have a direct conversation with regulators because you have an ongoing case. But when you lay out a two, three, or four-year plan, and have stakeholders engage, everyone knows what’s coming and there’s a level of transparency. Now, you are engaging in strategic discussions with regulators.”
Byline: 

Calvin Butler et al.

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Building the PSC Workforce

Staff Development

“One major project to help improve general knowledge about the work conducted at PUCs is the NARUC ‘Day in the Life’ campaign. This video series was produced by NARUC to highlight the benefits and value of working for a PUC at the forefront of the transforming energy landscape.”
Byline: 

Hyleah O’Quinn and Taylor Fitzgerald

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UK's Biggest Energy Provider with a Leg in North America

Octopus Energy

“The idea is technology and digitalization should be a deflationary force to enable better value and experience at the same time. We used to think to improve service, costs had to increase. But Amazon and Uber showed that dramatically better service can come with lower costs.”
Byline: 

Greg Jackson

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Multiple Key Roles at New York PSC

New York PSC

“We constantly take on new challenges and opportunities, including achieving a clean electric grid by 2040, new regulatory models like utility thermal energy networks, and building out of the transmission system to meet the state’s goals.”
Byline: 

Jessica Waldorf

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