Picture Energy: National Lineworker Appreciation Day, July 10
A Celebration
On Capitol Hill, National Lineworker Appreciation Day saluted the nearly 75,000 electrical lineworkers.
Managing Two Types of Risks
Getting Tech into Rate Base
Risks can be mitigated in the minds of regulators by presenting evidence.
Transforming Utilities from Bottom-Up
Tapping the Power of People
We are talking about a process designed to articulate what makes the company tick, its ambitions as an organization, and what motivates those within it.
Distributed Utility 2.0
Re-envisioning the electric distribution utility
Our vision of distributed utility 2.0 is organized around three core functions: planning and interconnection, operations and market services, and rate design. This overview focuses on transition issues.
Community Dialogue and Sustainability for Effective Vegetation Management
On Incompatible Trees
We define incompatible trees and shrubs as those that potentially can grow to the point of interfering with transmission assets.
Necessity Still Mother of Invention
Look at German Grid
Germany is politically united to close all remaining nuclear plants by the end of 2022 – but its coal generation will live on to at least 2038.
Tomorrow's Power Strategies
Global Top 40 Utility Actions
Strategy& (part of the PwC network) recently published an analysis of the strategies of the Global Top 40 utilities — peer group scale and shifts, what they are accomplishing and where these companies are positioning themselves to pursue growth.
Matt Olson and Bruce Albright on LTE Networks
Engineering the Future
Utilities need a communications infrastructure that is as reliable or even more reliable than the grid.
Tony Appleton on Offshore Wind
Engineering the Future
"We’re talking thousands of jobs being potentially created on that eastern seaboard."
Engineering Offshore Wind and LTE Networks
Burns & McDonnell
Conversations with Tony Appleton, Bruce Albright and Matt Olson, Burns & McDonnell.