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Brain Capital and the Future Energy Workforce 

A Unique Set of Challenges

Electric companies work diligently to ensure that they have the dedicated and passionate workforce needed to meet the opportunities and challenges that our industry faces. These challenges include rapidly rising demand for electricity, increasing frequency of extreme weather events, and rapid technological advances that are changing how we do business and how our customers use electricity.

Byline: 

Lawrence Jones

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The Future of Energy Generation

Navigating Reliability and Growth

“Increased renewable energy does not mean an abrupt end to dispatchable resources. In fact, dispatchable hydro, batteries, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants may need to last longer and operate more reliably on marginal days than they ever have before.”
Byline: 

Mike Caravaggio and Jeffery Preece

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My Takeaways from the Energy Evolution Summit

Building on Success

“One of my favorite moments? Celebrating this year’s SEPA Power Player Award winners. With over 100 impressive submissions from around the world, our judging panel had no easy task. But in the end, six winners rose to the top, each recognized for their innovation, impact, and ability to scale solutions through collaboration.”
Byline: 

Sheri Givens

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Accelerating Transmission Build

CTC Global

“Tech innovation is happening at a rapid pace, but it runs right into something that wants to change over decades. You see this even in the regulatory response to some of this.”
Byline: 

Theodore Paradise

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Exploring AI for Utilities, Part 3

Itron

“While they’ve acknowledged the workforce lacks the technical expertise to deploy AI and machine learning, they are looking at how to fix this through more training. About 48% of those surveyed said continuous training and education can help bridge that expertise gap.”
Byline: 

Marina Donovan

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Six Ways AI is Improving the Energy Landscape

Revolutionizing the Grid

“AI enables real-time dynamic pricing models, which allow for more efficient integration of intermittent renewables on the grid, and data center companies have begun leveraging AI to decarbonize their own operations.”
Byline: 

Molly Podolefsky

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Hotel California Meets Life in the Fast Lane

Co-Located Load and Race to Reshape the Grid

“A new model has emerged: co-location. Rather than wait in the transmission queue or depend on grid upgrades, large loads are siting next to generation to bypass delays with grid expansion. It’s raising questions about how the grid is planned, who pays, and where regulatory boundaries lie.”
Byline: 

Lyle Larson

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Water Affordability 2.0

Energy Efficiency Savings

“Energy efficiency is most likely where the greatest savings can be made while producing a reliable product and guarding public health for water companies of any size.“
Byline: 

Mary-Anna Holden and Butch Howard

 

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Energy Evolution Summit: Melissa Washington, Linda Ferrone

Commonwealth Edison, Orlando UC

“Think about the title of the Energy Evolution Summit; what’s evolved now? It’s driven by changes that have evolved due to regulatory perspective, due to economic climate. Issues have become more passionate and urgent, and some have become less urgent, or some are now settled.”
Byline: 

Melissa Washington, Linda Ferrone

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