How Utilities Can Extend the Regulated Model
Opportunities for Growth and New Services
A complementary evolutionary strategy may yield near-term bottom line results while the longer-term journey to revolutionize the regulatory model is underway.
Not Just for Lawyers
Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas Pipelines
Can FERC reliably predict whether, when, renewables and storage will become sufficiently economically, technically feasible to displace fossil fuel generation?
The Energy Customer Transformation
Investing in Platforms and Business Models
Be obsessed with customers, data, and needs. Build the customer journey and test it.
Ask Not What Customers Can Do for RTO Markets
Ask What RTO Markets Can Do for Customers
Centralized markets are a supporting actor in the industry. They are important, but not author, producer, director, and leading actor in the play.
From Typewriters to Digital Goldfish
Redefining Communications and PUCs
A few key principals and tactics can substantially improve our chances of cutting through the clutter.
The Fortis Expansion Story
Ten utility franchises across North America
How Newfoundland-based Fortis Became a Leading North American Utility
Michigan PSC: The Next Generation
Lauren Fromm, Daniel Gottschalk, Derrell Slaughter
“The continued rise of consumer-related technology is going to increase time-of-use rates.”
Michigan PSC: Broadband Infrastructure
Robin Ancona, Eric Frederick, and Sean Kelly
MPSC-affiliated Connect Michigan facilitates expansion of broadband in Michigan.
Michigan PSC: Natural Gas Infrastructure
“We inspect every pipeline operator every five years.”
Dave Chislea, Cindy Creisher, Nathan Miller, Brian Ballinger and Tim Wolf.
Michigan PSC: Electric Distribution Infrastructure
Pat Hudson and Ryan Laruwe
“The long-term goal is to integrate more of the distribution plans, the IRPs, and the transmission expansion planning that goes on separately and bring them all together.”