Through these profiles we aim to learn what drove the innovation, what's its essential benefit, and what aspect of their accomplishments did the innovators find most rewarding?

We selected the most outstanding in these ten categories: distributed generation, drones, environmental protection, microgrids, renewables integration, reliability and resilience, robotics, transmission, virtual reality, and wearables.

All of the nominations are impressive and impactful for our industry and the public. All of them are celebrated in the following pages.

One thing we can be proud of is that our association, NARUC, chose to stay relevant during this pandemic, a decision that will ultimately pay dividends to our members.

Our industry has institutionalized innovation.

The purpose is to demonstrate capacity of grid-interactive efficient buildings to improve energy intensity of homes and businesses, and to validate buildings’ potential to provide flexibility and resilience to the energy system as a whole.

The AUC asked PUF for help engaging all of you, our readers, to help understand what the employee of tomorrow will look like and what that means for the employee of today.

Modern electric system capabilities are rendering demand charges obsolete, with a few narrow exceptions.

The new normal of COVID-19 and pandemic-related health requirements has coincided with the new reality of increasing severe weather events and fires.