New at the Helm at AESP
Association of Energy Services Professionals
We will be expanding our scope to look at issues to achieve goals for the broader utility industry, rather than only DSM and efficiency related goals.
The Once and Future Grid
Investing in the Smart Grid
We cannot afford to let our guard down on security while most of the world is focused on the pandemic.
Landmark FCC Order Advances Utility Private LTE Broadband
Ameren
“We think that private LTE will be a game changer.”
How the Industry is Coping with Coronavirus Crisis
PwC
“If any industry is built to withstand this stress, it’s going to be the utilities. They’ve been planning for it. Their relentless focus on reliability is proving to be very valuable.”
Wisconsin PSC Chair Valcq, on the Virus Crisis
Chair Becky Cameron Valcq: Wisconsin PSC faces the coronavirus crisis proactively.
Ameren's Chief Digital Information Officer, on FCC's May 13 order
Bhavani Amirthalingham: New FCC order is an opportunity for utilities to develop private LTE networks air-gapped from the public Internet.
Demand Destruction
This May, through noon May 19, the highest hourly demand for electricity in the continental U.S. was 470.8 thousand megawatt-hours. That highest hourly demand came in hour nineteen Eastern Time on the fourth of May, the same day that the highest daily demand took place this month, at 9.6 million megawatt-hours.
Notably, this highest hourly demand was 7.6 percent less than the highest hourly demand during the same time period of last May, in 2019. And the highest daily demand was 8.3 percent less this May as compared to last May.
Fortnightly Under Forty: Brian Van Abel
Xcel Energy
“It’s been a fluid situation and we’ve learned a lot on how statewide shelter-in-place orders impact each customer class as we’ve gone through April.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Abbey Roy
Southern Company
“ I spend a lot of time with other technology companies seeking partnerships for new technologies we can deploy.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Lisa Dailey
Northfork Elec. Coop.
“We’ve formed an LLC with another co-op in Southwest Oklahoma called NuEra Energy Services to look at ways of capturing non-traditional revenue, doing some shared services.”