“EPRI has expanded its collaboration with DOE’s national labs. This work has included case studies to explore specific climate resilience research questions, joint publications, and a series of workshops.”

“The FCC certainly has an extensive to-do list. On the Broadband Internet Access Service provider side, an interesting question of what comes next for them is whether the FCC’s Open Internet Order will deter investment in broadband facilities and services.”

“We’ve partnered with the University of Notre Dame to develop an industry-first Innovation Mindset Training course, which focuses on The Six Keys of Innovation. This training is designed to unlock the potential of our employees, empowering them to contribute to our innovation goals.”

“There is a mismatch of need and timing. For those growing utilities, the demands are coming faster than new transmission can meet. Transmission is part of the answer – but what can be done in the interim of this lopsided world?”

“Solutions leveraging gas capacity, battery storage, geothermal generation, and fuel cells are creating a bridge to long-term electricity grid solutions. This may be the start of a trend where modular demand needs are matched to distributed generation.”

“We used to call it IT/OT integration. We always knew the IT world could interact with the OT world to create new value, but it never happened in reality because of the operation and the customer sides of the utility.”

“There are only about 100 nuclear plants. For hydropower, there are about 2,500. A silent phenomenon is we’re struggling to get the same intensity of concern for hydropower because it doesn’t get as much attention as the nuclear plants do.”

George Westinghouse Top Innovator in Leadership in Innovation: “Because of this framework, we’re able to pilot new technologies and bring them to scale faster and more efficiently than ever before. This will lead to cost savings and increased operational efficiencies across the company.”

Charles Steinmetz Top Innovator in Grid or Network Solutions: “We took a conventional regulating loop and applied it to a renewable facility. That was the beginning. It started out as a reactive voltage controller for renewable facilities and grew into a full-blown power plant controller with frequency response, among other things.”