Nominate Your Utility's Top Innovators
Deadline: July 15
PUF’s annual Fortnightly Top Innovators uniquely recognizes individual innovators and teams of innovators at electric, natural gas, and water utilities.
Law & Lawyers
PUF Chats: Joe Purington
AVANGRID
“We’re fortunate being a global company on the supply chain side. Being part of the Iberdrola family in AVANGRID, it speeds up our wait time to 2 to 3 years. Where we had impacts from COVID in the U.S. on distribution transformers, we were able to take manufacturing slots from Brazil.”
NEI's Annual Nuclear Energy Policy Forum
Advancing the Resurgence
Topic numbers one, two, and three were advancing nuclear power’s resurgence at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual Nuclear Energy Policy Forum. The conference program was jam packed with the leading thought leaders and decision makers on this critical subject.
Resilience, Demand Growth, and More
Evergy
“Evergy’s strategic tenets are affordability, reliability, and sustainability. If you ever put too much emphasis on one of those tenets at the expense of the others, you’ll get out of balance and run into trouble. Out of balance inevitably creates issues with key constituents.”
What They Heard and Learned at Accenture IUEC
Exelon, Accenture
“We’re seeing annual growth rates of between 13-16% nationally from data center power year-over-year between now and the year 2030. Data centers constituted about 5% of total U.S. demand in 2024, for comparison. That’ll increase to between 16-23% percent by 2033.”
Edison Congress 2025
Leaders from Forty-plus Utilities in the Room
Senior representatives from more than forty U.S. electric utilities attended PUF's third annual Edison Congress with co-host the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies.
Role of the States in the Energy Transition
Calif. Energy Commission
“The State Energy Offices are most easily characterized as the energy policy arm of the governor of each state. They’re diverse. Sometimes they’re stand-alone agencies or located in a Department of Commerce. We are located within the California Natural Resources Agency.”
Accenture IUEC: Scott Tinkler
Accenture
“The most surprising is how many times we heard how much the utilities require regulatory stability to meet their goals. They are looking for predictability. However, it’s essential they make resilience a permanent capability to prepare and turn disruption into opportunity.”
Accenture's International Utilities and Energy Conference
Demand Surging
This year’s conference was held in Washington, D.C. One theme throughout the three days of proceedings was the surge in demand for electric power and strategies to address it.
Nineteen Voices from Burns & McDonnell's Annual Transmission Symposium
Events
From the sidelines of its Annual Transmission Symposium, conversations with Burns & McDonnell’s Alberto Ruiz, Chih-Hung Chen, Jess Kurpius, Zach O'Toole, JC Perkins, Matt Ingram, Matt Lind, Kyle Combes, Michaela Nickell, Brent Windsor, Brad Gardner, Paul Barker, Danny Serrano, Vinny Montemurro, James Duehning, Mark Van Dyne, Kent Herzog, Alex Lee, and Polsinelli law firm’s Andrew Schulte.