Fortnightly Magazine - August 2026

“The opportunity now is to make Wildfire Mitigation Plans more understandable, comparable, and evaluator-friendly, much as integrated resource and transmission plans became over time.”

“A major utility serving a mix of these customers is no longer diversified at scale even though it serves AI operators in multiple jurisdictions. It is exposed to a single wager held by a tiny club of whales.”

“Root cause analysis in incident response is more complicated as industrial automation grows. New scenarios need to be blended by the planning team to incorporate thinking and questioning as to what might be possible and what an adversary would have to do to attack the water system.”

“The energy industry is moving beyond innovation for innovation’s sake. We’re entering a period where success will be measured less by the technologies we deploy and more by how effectively we integrate them into the way we plan, operate, and regulate the electric system.”