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Lights On, Puerto Rico! David Owens’ Career Capstone
November 13, 2020
“This is really about the future of Puerto Rico. This is about bringing jobs back to Puerto Rico, enhancing economic development, re-establishing businesses in Puerto Rico, getting Puerto Ricans employed.” David Owens, Vice-Chair, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
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Buildout of the Digital Grid - CenterPoint's Leading Edge
October 16, 2020
“The wholesale market is competitive, and the retail market is competitive, and so many entities can participate and it enables the real evolution of technology to come to the forefront and we make investments across the supply chain.” Kenny Mercado, Senior Vice President of Electric Operations, CenterPoint Energy
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Grid Evolution, Northwest Style
September 30, 2020
“The entire West is concerned about the ability to meet peak. Within the Pacific Northwest, that concern has, for a number of years, been more acute, but for us the arrow has been at red really going back to our 2015 electric supply plan.” Bob Rowe, President and CEO, NorthWest Energy
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Transmission Challenges in a Carbon-Free World
September 11, 2020
“There's an opportunity for the right investments, the right construction, and the ability to work towards...a carbon-free or reduced-carbon future.” Mark Gabriel, CEO and Administrator, Western Area Power Administration
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Grid Gets Artificially Intelligent
August 31, 2020
“You want to be able to demonstrate the impact to the customer and have their voices reflected in what you’re doing.” Vivian Bouet, Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy
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Annapolis Pilots Efficiency
August 10, 2020
“The technology can be brilliant. It can be leading edge. It can be amazing, but if no one actually uses it, then it doesn't really matter. We're trying to balance that leading-edge tech with leading-edge community engagement.” Sam duPont, Principal of Strategic Programs, Baltimore Gas and Electric
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Xcel Excels in Carbon Slash, Microgrid Boost
July 29, 2020
“The technologies that I think about to get that last 20% out are things like the hydrogen-- development of hydrogen fuel as well as storage, advanced nuclear, carbon capture, dispatchable renewable generation, and of course additional storage and demand side management type opportunities.” Ben Fowke, Chairman and CEO, Xcel Energy
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Duquesne Light’s Industrial Midwest
July 17, 2020
“We're going to serve customers safely, reliably every day with the power they need but do it in very different ways, in ways where customers are not just flipping a switch on and not thinking about where their power comes from but are focused and concerned about their environmental footprint, the resiliency of their system, maybe their self-sufficiency” Steve Malnight, President and CEO, Duquesne Light Holdings and Duquesne Light Company
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Austin Energy Accelerates Green Goals
June 30, 2020
“We've got batteries that are tied to large-scale grids. We have the ability to reduce, significantly reduce load off the system at the grid level.” Thomas Pierpoint, Vice President of Electric System Engineering and Technical Services, Austin Energy
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Rural Colorado Pioneers Affordable, Green Homes
June 16, 2020
“We can have all the best technology in the world, but it we don’t deploy it in a a way that's of benefit to the customer… (it) isn’t going to get us anywhere.” Bryan Hannegan, President and CEO, Holy Cross Energy
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Grid Wards off Threats, Rapidly Evolves
June 2, 2020
“We have a real opportunity here to really integrate kind of how the grid is planned, how it's operated, and how it's secured as we go through this reinvention process.” Jim Robb, President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corporation
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Michigan Utility’s Sparkling Efficiency Gains
May 19, 2020
“We can optimize each individual home's footprint and therefore optimize the grid, optimize the demand curve for the whole state and reduce the peak which prevents the need to build replacement power plants for the coal plants that we're closing.” Patti Poppe, President and CEO, CMS Energy
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California Utility’s Big Pivot in Tumultuous Times
April 22, 2020
“Our longer-term strategy is to build a resilient grid that can provide more and more energy that fuels the economy and the society that we live in.” Drew Murphy, Senior Vice President, Edison International
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Smart Grid in the Age of Corona
April 9, 2020
“What smart meters have done is taken essentially a big meter reading contingent for us off of the street. They've been redeployed as linemen and elsewhere through the company. If you can imagine 10 million meters that need to be read once every month, our employees were literally touching every home, every business in the service territory on a monthly basis.” Joe Svachula and Eric Helt, Exelon Utilities
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NYC Plugs into Carbon-Free Era
March 19, 2020
“You're going to see more rooftop solar. Battery systems will be going on roofs and parking lots of buildings. The way our systems work--it's going to look a lot moe like cross-town traffic in midtown Manhattan.” Matthew Ketschke, Vice President, Con Edison
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New Mexico Beyond Coal
March 4, 2020
“Some feel we gave up money that rightly should have gone to shareholders... But we think the solution to climate change will require a compromise on everybody's part.” Patrica Collawn, Chairman, President, and CEO, PNM
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Dawn of the Urban Microgrid
February 12, 2020
“We have to think about accommodating more and more renewable energy and distributed energy resources in the system. That means that we need to rethink the design and how the electric grid works.” Dr. Shay Bahramirad, Vice President, Engineering and Smart Grid, ComEd
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Utility Goes Smart Grid
February 4, 2020
“With the pace of technological advances, we're going to continue to see lower and lower costs and better integration of renewable energy.” Maria Pope, President and CEO, Portland General Electric
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Dominion Goes Big with Offshore Wind, Methane Capture, E-School Buses
January 20, 2020
“It’s a brand-new industry in the United States. We do believe it’s ready for prime time.” Thomas Farrell, Chairman, President, and CEO of Dominion Energy
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Utilities and Agencies Need to Work Together
January 6, 2020
“It comes down to collaboration…to achieve the kind of objectives that we have for the future of our power system.” Elliott Mainzer, Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration
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Embracing Sustainability
December 19, 2019
“We view ourselves as an energy infrastructure company and not as someone who lives to pump greater volumes of gas or electricity to our customers.” Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President & CEO, PSEG
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Plugging in to Small Nuclear Power
December 9, 2019
“We think it’s a game changer. We think this is a market-based solution for greenhouse gas in the electric sector around the world.” Doug Hunter, CEO and General Manager, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)
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EV's Rapid Growth in the Heartland
November 2019
“This is kind of a triple play. It's a win for the environment; it's a win for our shareholders, and it's a win for our customers from a cost perspective.” Chuck Caisley, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Public Affairs & Chief Customer Officer, Evergy
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The Vermont Energy Vision
November 2019
“We're very excited about this because this is the opportunity for customers to completely transform their relationship with energy by going with solar, with storage, with an EV and bundling it all into one price and bundling it all into, you know, what we all know as subscription pricing.” Mary Powell, President and CEO, Green Mountain Power
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Global Electric Change
October 2019
“We have to be prepared that for the resources that come in, they are very different than the resources that are leaving, and they require different types of network capability, and that has to be addressed in advance, not after the fact.” Audrey Zibelman, CEO, Australian Energy Market Operator
