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Hawaii’s Pivot to Sustainability
September 28, 2023
“The office is going through an exercise of trying to think through and identify what resources the state does have, to make sure that the energy system remains available, even in, during strange or extreme weather events.” Stephen Walls, Deputy Chief Energy Officer, Hawaii State Energy Office
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Big Boost to Renewables’ Reserves
September 18, 2023
“We will be in a better position to integrate the valuable renewable energy that we get from solar and from wind because we will be considering all the possibilities and we’ll be prepositioning our system in the best way to cope with the variability and the uncertainty of these resources.” Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.
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Wind Mystery and Grid Update at SPP
September 7, 2023
“On June 6 of this year at 10 o’clock in the morning, out of the 32,000 megawatts of nameplate wind capacity, only 110 megawatts of energy was actually produced.” Lanny Nickell, Executive Vice President and CEO, Southwest Power Pool
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One Trillion Dollars for Tomorrow’s Green Grid
April 8, 2023
“Whether or not enough is being done, time will tell. I know it takes a while to ramp up such large targeted investment and I know a lot of the utilities and the stakeholders are waiting for clear guidance from the federal government.” Sheri Givens, President and CEO, SEPA
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PJM’s Massive Grid Evolution
March 30, 2023
“I don’t know what that number will be in the next five years but I will tell you that a lot of the people who are looking to build solar panels and solar farms right now are looking to interconnect at the same exact spot where we have a retired fossil unit.” Kenneth Seiler, Vice President, PJM Interconnection
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Give the Grid a Digital Spine
March 24, 2023
“To help manage an affordable, reliable, clean electric system is massively more complex obviously than it was historically and part of this is going to be creating these digital spines or digital platforms that allow us to manage this data and share it.” Audrey Zimbelman, former Vice President, Moonshot X Factory at Google
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Denmark Pioneers Vast Expansion of Wind Power via Two Energy Islands
February 14, 2023
“It definitely takes some braveness from the politicians to start these projects where a lot of the technology is still new or untested when they are taking the decisions.” Hanne Storm Edlefsen, Vice President, Energy Islands, Energinet
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Ten Times Hotter than the Sun
January 30, 2023
“It will change everything (on the potential of fusion).” Laban Coblentz, Head of Communications, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
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Creating Stars, Powering the World - Here Comes Fusion!
January 19, 2023
“What we’re doing here is essentially creating a miniature star in a lab, about the size of a human hair to half the size of the human hair.” Annie Kritcher, Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Here Come Residential Heat Pumps
December 22, 2022
“After incentives... that’s usually going to lead to a payback somewhere in the 7-, 8-, 9-year range.” Michael Sachse, CEO, Dandelion Energy
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Kansas City’s Massive Solar Ambitions
December 16, 2022
“We’ve got a huge asset here which is our land.” Brian Platt, City Manager
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Dramatic Fed EV Charging Expansion
October 18, 2022
“It’s going to unlock nationwide travel with respect to EVs.” Nick Voris, Senior Manager of Electrification, Evergy
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Austin Seeks Equity for Electric Customers
September 2022
“When we are looking at moving forward and reaching those carbon-free goals, affordability is part of that equation, and it’s really important for us that we address the customers who are most vulnerable within our community.” Jackie Sargent, General Manager, Austin Energy,
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Enel of Italy Leads a Surge in US Renewables
September 2022
“We have expectations of adding at least two gigawatts per year of additional renewable development.” Mona Tierney-Lloyd, Head of U.S. Public Policy at Enel North America
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Grid Italian Style - ENEL Defines the Future
September 2022
“Without a doubt we are the most digitized distribution company in the world. We are the absolute leader in this field.” Antonio Cammisecra, Head of the Enel Grids
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Microgrids Blanket Alaska - Prime US Testbed
August 2022
“I see microgrids becoming a bigger and bigger thing as climate change impacts accelerate and the power outage rate keeps going up. People are so dependent on electricity; they’re going to want some form of a microgrid resiliency.” Peter Asmus, Executive Director, Alaska Microgrid Group
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Utilities Fully in on Carbon Fight
July 2022
“73% of all U.S. electric customers are served by a utility that has a public target for a hundred percent carbon reduction, so I’d say that’s pretty significant.” Julia Hamm, CEO, Smart Electric Power Alliance
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States Get Ready for Fed Grid Spend
July 2022
“There is a tremendous amount of innovation being supported in the utility space at both the federal and state level.” Dianne Solomon, Member of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and Chairman of NARUC Committee on Critical Infrastructure
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Here Comes the Energy Storage Revolution
June 2022
“We have to deal with the intermittency. And nobody wants green electricity that’s only available part-time; they want it all the time, so that means storage.” Don Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT
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Nuclear Renaissance Ahead
June 2022
“Imagine nuclear really forming the backbone of that clean-energy, highly-reliable grid upon which the intermittent resources can also be added.” Maria Korsnick, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
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LA’s Bold, Equitable Energy Vision
May 2022
“Everything will be looked at from a prism of equity so that we monitor it on a regular basis and report to our communities whether we have met our equity targets.” Simon Zewdu, Director of Transmission Planning, Regulatory Processes and Innovation, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
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Feds Aim to Speed Approval of Infrastructure
April 2022
“I want to make sure that we’re putting boots on the ground—that we have the construction workers who are there and actually making the infrastructure happen.” Christine Harada, Executive Director, Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
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ComEd Pursues Equity as it Decarbonizes
April 2022
“We want to make sure that we’re putting our customers at the center of this transition.” Gil Quiniones, CEO, ComEd
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Massive Federal Transmission Rebuild Funds Will Soon Flow to Projects
April 2022
“I would love to see it this calendar year.” Michelle Manary, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy Resilience Division, Office of Electricity, Department of Energy
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Midwest, West Ready for Major Federal Grid Upgrades
March 2022
“As a new administrator, folks often ask me what keeps me up at night and I often have responded with weather. Weather keeps me up at night.” Tracey LeBeau, Administrator and CEO, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
