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.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Ana Stachowiak
NYPA
“That’s part of the joy of being in project management in this field. You have a real product at the end of the day, a three-dimensional reality that fills you with enormous pride.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Aaron Curtis
ITC Holdings (Fortis)
“This is the last of the MISO MVP projects in the Midwest. That’s another unique aspect. There were 17 projects approved.”
Fortnightly Under Forty: Maria Bocanegra
Illinois Commerce Commission
“I enjoy bringing stakeholders together or inspiring stakeholders to evaluate hot topics.”