Some Great Teams of Utility Innovators
Fortnightly Top Innovators
Out of 88 nominations, 23 teams earned Fortnightly Top Innovators awards.
Announcing Top Innovators 2024
After reviewing the eighty-eight qualifying nominations of teams of innovators at utilities that PUF received earlier this summer, we’re honored to announce your Fortnightly Top Innovators 2024.
October’s Public Utilities Fortnightly will highlight and celebrate these great teams and their inspiring stories and accomplishments on behalf of the customers they serve. In the meantime, here’s the teams that plowed new ground in reliability, technology, operations, environmental protection, safety, analytics, cybersecurity, and more:
Electricity at One and a Third Percent
July 25’s Gross Domestic Product report for the second quarter was encouraging.
Integrated Distribution System Planning
Workshop Identifies Key Enablers to Interconnection
“AEIC’s Ops Center will provide the electric utility industry with authoritative information as a basis for decision making on local, state, and federal infrastructure investments. The Ops Center will facilitate projects that address important issues, including technology challenges, grid storage, electrification, and more. As projects are completed, the Ops Center will publish results.”
The AI-Electricity Landscape
Paths to Equitable AI and Universal Electricity Access
“In much of Europe, Asia, and North America, AI is seen as a tool to optimize energy systems and drive technological progress. Communities without reliable electricity are approaching the AI revolution differently.”
Grid-Enhancing Technologies
Renewable Integration
“EPRI is launching a multi-year initiative. Grid-Enhancing Technologies for a Smart Energy Transition or GET SET, is focused on expanding network capacity and maintaining grid reliability, while providing affordability, resilience, and energy security on the path to net zero.”
USAID Powering the Southern African Power Pool
Learning from Best Practices
“All the African power pools are working on a continental master plan for interconnection of the continent under the leadership of the African Union.”
Using Clean Energy Federal Funding to Make Housing Affordable
How States and Communities Can Help
“It’s also key to braid funding from applicable federal programs, as well as state and local sources, to yield the largest, most transformative, and lasting impacts of clean energy investment on housing affordability.”
Takeaways from Meta-Analysis of Decarbonization Studies
GTI Energy, Evolved Energy Research
“These studies give an idea of what net zero might look like, but we need to take them with a dose of humility given how far we are from net zero today. It’s helpful to keep our minds open to new insights and disruptive innovations as we progress to net zero.”
How Supreme Court's Chevron Decision Impacts Utilities
Dentons
“There will be a huge amount of litigation from this by all participants in all ideologies, so there will be a lot of turbulence. Another reason this will impact most energy and utilities people, is the question, ‘Will this impact regulatory certainty for investors?‘ It’s a legitimate, unknown question.”