What's in Store in Twenty-Four?
Scylla and Charybdis
As we contemplate how we, in the fashion of Odysseus, shall confront the various Scylla and Charybdis of the new year, it is good to remember the strengths of our ship at sea.
Frontlines & Op-Ed
Santa to Slide Down Your Carbon Emission-Free Chimney
Christmas and Electricity
General Electric began selling pre-assembled Christmas light kits in 1903. Until then, lighting your tree electrically was expensive and the installation, complicated. Toy electric trains started out as a store window display that would draw the attention of shoppers to the store.
Power by Association
The Tom Kuhn Model
Tom Kuhn has taken a distinctive approach to leading the Edison Electric Institute. He tirelessly sought to drive his diverse membership of investor-owned electric utilities to an agreement to act that was significantly tougher to come to, but significantly more impactful for the utilities industry, for the customers the industry serves, and for our nation.
NARUC 2023 Summer Policy Summit
Seen in Austin, Texas
The NARUC Summer Policy Summit was held in Austin amid much camaraderie and heat in Texas. While the Monday opening General Session looked back at the Northeast Blackout of 2003, ERCOT kept the electric grid humming along in a heat wave that kept temperatures above one hundred all week.
NARUC in Summertime
Tough Questions
The density of utility regulatory and policy folks in the more than adequately air-conditioned JW Marriott Austin, gathered there for NARUC’s Summer Summit, even after adjusting for the three-digit temperatures outside the conference’s hotel, hit record highs.
NARUC Summer Policy Summit
See You in Austin
I smiled when I realized NARUC was holding its 2023 Summer Policy Summit in Austin, Texas.
Transformation Tales: Never So Great a Threat, Never So Great a Test
Climate Change
Climate change has emerged as a top priority in Washington, giving hope to all those that have a sense of urgency about slowing down that oncoming train of a changing climate.
Patriot of His Country and Industry
Tom Fanning
Much like Owen Young a hundred years before him, Tom Fanning has again and again proven to be a patriot of his country and industry. Indeed, perhaps Fanning also personifies a second hero in the history of our industry, Alvin Ward Vogtle.
Edison's Congress This Month
May Meeting of Those Who Build, Maintain, Restore the Grid
AEIC approached PUF proposing to jointly host a spring version of this nearly 140-year-old tradition. Edison Congress 2023 will bring together officers and directors from 35 different utilities to share experiences, lessons learned, and best practices.
It's Conference Season, What We're Hearing
Snippets from CERAWeek by S&P Global.
Snippets from CERAWeek by S&P Global.