Measuring Affordability
Expenditures to pay consumers’ electric utility bills are up 16.3% from April of last year.
PUF Annual Pulse of Power Survey
Guidehouse
“Resilience is increasingly top of mind – despite the growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events and fires – but it is cybersecurity, rather than physical security and grid hardening, where utility industry participants see the greatest risk currently.”
Like SpaceX, Incredible Innovation in New Nuclear
Kairos Power
“We are singularly focused on efforts to commercialize an advanced reactor technology. Singular means we are only developing one technology, which is a fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor.”
Idaho National Lab Director Inventing the Future
Decarbonization
“When we look at deep decarbonization, it’s going to take at least a couple decades. We have to be careful that the decisions we’re making for short-term gains aren’t making it more difficult for us in the future.”
Lightning Round on Power's Future
Guidehouse
Fourteen Guidehouse experts hit their buzzers and answer our questions: Hector Artze, Dan Bradley, Michelle Fay, Lisa Frantzis, Nicole Reed Fry, Ben Grunfeld, Derek Jones, Robyn Link, Chris Luras, Macky McCleary, David O’Brien, Molly Podolefsky, Danielle Vitoff, and Ted Walker.
NARUC Executive Committee Member Looks Forward
NARUC
“It’s resource adequacy, supply chain headwinds, and also market development. Those are the key issues in the west, regardless of whether you’re a state with clean-energy policies or not.”
Making Less Vulnerable the Minerals Critical to Power's Future
EV Batteries and More
“The secret that not everyone knows is, for many of these critical minerals, the U.S. has them here domestically. They can be found in different sources across the country. But can they be recovered in a way that’s environmentally friendly and can compete on cost?“
State of Power Accelerating, Future of Power Approaching
The Future is Fast
Utilities in the present aim to be fleet of foot. For them, nimble is a common buzzword. Fail fast is another.
Latimer House Museum
Events
The great inventor and collaborator with Thomas Edison, Lewis Latimer, lived in Queens, New York when he was one of Edison’s chief competitors and later when Edison hired him. Latimer’s home was famously a meeting place for African American intellectuals, musicians, businessmen, etc. In the late nineteen nineties his home became a fascinating museum.
With Paul Kjellander’s painting of Latimer on the cover of June’s Public Utilities Fortnightly, we kicked off the campaign to develop a new permanent exhibition and interior renovation of the museum.