The Woman Who Made Long-Distance Transmission Feasible
Edith Clarke
NYPA’s Susan Craig and PUF’s Steve Mitnick talk about Edith Clarke’s breakthrough enabling the electric industry to engineer lines over 200 miles and ultimately today’s grid.
Women Leading Today: Lisa Barton
Women’s History Month
“One of the things we’ve done is look at a number of investor decks from peer utilities. I had my team look at them. It’s to get folks to think a little differently.”
Women Leading Today: Lisa Grow
Women’s History Month
“I was the second woman engineer ever hired in a 104-year-old company. It required that the culture shift. The first woman engineer, Colleen Ramsey, was super helpful to me.”
Women Leading Today
Women’s History Month
Conversations with the CEO of IDACORP, Lisa Grow, and COO of American Electric Power, Lisa Barton.
Women's History Month 2021
PUF Celebrates You
Women's History Month has a kind of a short history. At least it seems that way to me. I was still in college in 1981 when Congress first asked for a celebration of Women's History Week starting in March 1982. It wasn't until 1987, that Congress designated a month.
San Diego Broadband
San Diego Gas & Electric is creating a private LTE network for a falling conductor protection system.
What Happened to Texas?
It got seriously cold in the Big D. The low on February 14 was 10° and it snowed heavily. By 3 a.m. on the 15th, total demand and generation collapsed by 9,000 MWh.
Edith Clarke Made Long-Distance Transmission Feasible
Clarke was the first female electrical engineer in the U.S.
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
Coal plants in January produced nearly 16% fewer MWh, but total CO2 emissions rose by nearly 19% over January 2019.