Joan Bok: First Woman to Chair a Major U.S. Utility
In 1984 she became Chair of New England Electric System (now a part of National Grid US).
Residential Rates Really
April 13th's Consumer Price Index report showed that consumer prices overall averaged a 2.6 percent increase during the twelve months ending in March. And the report also showed that electricity prices — residential electric rates — averaged a virtually identical 2.5 percent increase during that same period. Economists would say that the real inflation-adjusted increase is thus approximately zero.
In Cybersecurity, It Takes a Neighborhood
Top cybersecurity experts explain the importance of the industry working together to share threat information in real time at “machine speed.”
Read our April issue
Our April issue is now available to read online. See the table of contents here.
Selective Undergrounding Strategically
A primer on new undergrounding strategies for greater resilience.
Indiana Senate's Lessons on Texas
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”
Alliance to Save Energy at Congressional Hearing
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“Energy efficiency should be the starting point in the conversation about an equitable clean energy transition.”
CERAWeek by IHS Markit
Memorable and Meaningful Moments
“If you’re going to operate within a single market like Texas, with very limited access to the Eastern Interconnect, then you really have to think about what those reserve margins should be.”
Up the Capacity of an HVAC Line
Consider Converting to HVDC, Part 3
“We describe several ways the capacity of an existing high voltage AC transmission line can be increased and show that sometimes the most cost-effective strategy is to convert the line to high voltage DC.”