Recognizing and Celebrating
Touchy-Feely, Sure. Essential, For Sure!
When leaders honor innovators’ passion and inventiveness, they encourage the creative culture they so want for their organizations.
Fortnightly Magazine - November 2017
The Mind of an Innovator
Reflections on Skills, Traits, Mindset
Anyone can innovate. But not everyone is an innovator.
The Innovation Imperative
Powering-up Your Utility
Calculated business model innovation can reveal investment opportunities or operational approaches to future-proof companies.
How Does Innovation Impact Customers?
No Two Are Alike
Consumers probably did not realize they wanted to talk to their homes to control connected devices, until they did.
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.
Nominating a Bold Innovator
Transformational Line Design
An excerpt of a nomination letter making the case for Jeff Fleeman to be selected as a Fortnightly Top Forty Innovator.
NARUC Innovation Awards
New Approaches, New Technologies, Driving Change
Illinois Commerce Commission Chair recognizes innovative work of leaders in the public utility sector.
So Much Innovation Already, So Much to Go
Technology, Policies and Customers
The energy grid is evolving into a plug-and-play platform. That means connecting a lot of so-called ‘things’ to the grid.
Innovating Like EPRI
What Will Help Drive The Acceleration of Innovation?
EPRI has to understand how various innovations impact safe, reliable, affordable, and environmentally responsible electricity.
Governors' Energy Innovation Summit
Governors Serve a Crucial Role
Information from those summits are used to develop energy and transportation innovation roadmaps.