Utility Workforce: Jerry Bellah
IBEW VP, Eighth District
Being a lineman in the field, you’re one of the more valuable people in the economy in the U.S., as they are considered an essential occupation and stayed working during the lockdown.
Saluting the IBEW and Utility Workforce
Six Conversations
While we suspend our daily schedules, the utility workforce goes all out.
Resilience is Their Middle Name
Saluting Our Heroes of Heroes
The utility workforce – their tasks complicated by exposure to the sickness and initially, shortage of protective supplies – is out there once again, for us.
Utilities Can Encourage Innovation Without Being Tech Giant
Contributed by Earl Simpkins, Varun Bhatnagar, and Amy Zhao at Strategy&.
Five State Legislators on Electric Industry's Transformation Post-Pandemic
Video Roundtables Fortnightly 6
Fortnightly Electricity Report, as of June 9
A turnaround has happened, for the first time during this virus crisis.
Flying a Kite
June 15 is a gigantic day for utility regulation and policy.
Read Our June 15 Special Issue
The State and Future of Power
Happy King Kamehameha Day
June 11 of course is King Kamehameha Day celebrating the founder of the Kingdom of Hawaii. It will be a shame if the traditional parade, festival and hula dancing must be scaled back because of the virus crisis.
Which makes us think of the time when a successor, King Kalakaua, and Thomas Edison met on September 25, 1881 in New York, while the King was on a world tour. Edison so impressed the King about electric lighting and the potential for electricity generally that Hawaii actually became a world leader in electrifying.