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Broadband Roundtable

NRECA PowerXchange

“Economic development is a huge factor in fiber deployment. Our cooperative is serving one Microsoft data center and are in the process of serving three more. You don’t attract those kinds of loads without a sound, highly reliable fiber network.”
Byline: 

Steve Foshee, Mike Casper, John Lee

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Supply Chain Roundtable

NRECA PowerXchange

“We are seeing lead times of up to a year for critical materials such as transformers, meter sockets, wire, and some hardware, with some lead times on other non-critical material reaching 70 weeks. This requires our salespeople to engage with customers in planning ahead and ordering early.”
Byline: 

Buddy Hasten, Brent Ridge, Randy Shaw

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Hawaiian Electric: Jack Shriver

Director for Generation Project Development

“Our islands are relatively small, and the acreage footprint is going to start to become a more contentious issue. We’re going to need to look for technologies that don’t use up as much of our precious resources.”
Byline: 

Jack Shriver

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2018 Carbon Dioxide Emission Trends

Explaining the 2018 Increase

Despite the recent uptick in 2018, total generation has been relatively steady in recent years, showing no distinct upward or downward long-term trend for several years.
Byline: 

Daniel Klein

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Your 2017 Fortnightly Top Forty Innovators

First Fantastic Forty

The first transformational transmission line design in nearly fifty years? They developed it. The world's first battery/gas turbine hybrid system at existing peakers. They developed it too.

The world's first underground spent fuel storage facility at an operating nuclear plant. They developed it. One of the first distribution utility natural gas compressors. They developed it too.

Vertical climbing inspection robots. They developed them. Transmission line crawling inspection robots. They developed them too.

Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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New Year 2017: The Trump Administration

Change Will Occur, Slowly

It is not possible to know what priorities the new administration will pursue. It is possible for legislators, regulators, and utilities to make some assumptions: coal will continue to decline as a generation fuel, previous utility investment and court decisions will carry forward. Legislators will continue to promote generation fuel diversity to best ensure system reliability.
Byline: 

Kansas Representative Tom Sloan

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