“There is a mismatch of need and timing. For those growing utilities, the demands are coming faster than new transmission can meet. Transmission is part of the answer – but what can be done in the interim of this lopsided world?”

“Solutions leveraging gas capacity, battery storage, geothermal generation, and fuel cells are creating a bridge to long-term electricity grid solutions. This may be the start of a trend where modular demand needs are matched to distributed generation.”

“We used to call it IT/OT integration. We always knew the IT world could interact with the OT world to create new value, but it never happened in reality because of the operation and the customer sides of the utility.”

“There are only about 100 nuclear plants. For hydropower, there are about 2,500. A silent phenomenon is we’re struggling to get the same intensity of concern for hydropower because it doesn’t get as much attention as the nuclear plants do.”

George Westinghouse Top Innovator in Leadership in Innovation: “Because of this framework, we’re able to pilot new technologies and bring them to scale faster and more efficiently than ever before. This will lead to cost savings and increased operational efficiencies across the company.”

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Grid or Network Solutions: “We took a conventional regulating loop and applied it to a renewable facility. That was the beginning. It started out as a reactive voltage controller for renewable facilities and grew into a full-blown power plant controller with frequency response, among other things.”

Nikola Tesla Top Innovator in Artificial Intelligence: “Providing awareness to our crews where we have better digital visibility into our circuits can help them plan accordingly, especially if conditions impose a higher level of risk, such as working in underground facilities.”

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Grid or Network Solutions: “We can pair our gas planning process with our electric planning process, and that’s unique to this project. This was the first time we’ve tried to coordinate both our gas and electric planning into one coordinated system.”

Lewis Latimer Top Innovator in Technology or Process Design: “The Outage Management System project has been a catalyst for change. It has brought changes in operator mindset, distribution technology integration, and operational processes.”

John Beggs Top Innovator in Energy Transition: “We’re proud that we have completely automated the facility. It’s running now, and we’ve developed a basic dispatch program that makes decisions for itself and programs the battery when to store power, when to dispatch power, et cetera.”