“These award winners earned recognition for developing innovative and transformational solutions to some of today’s most challenging operational issues that have achieved success by demonstrating measurable results.”

“Without clear guidance, the very consumers who stand to benefit most from an energy transition risk being left behind. A national energy education initiative can bridge this gap, providing the trusted knowledge households and businesses need to make informed energy decisions.”

“In January 2025, the U.S. DOE’s Interconnection Innovation Exchange (i2X) released a Distributed Energy Resources Interconnection Roadmap. The Roadmap sets near-term targets for DER projects interconnecting to distribution systems and offers strategies for achieving these goals.”

“For many in the electric sector, the term baseline immediately evokes CIP-010-4 Requirement R1, a well-established standard for configuration management. But CIP-015-1 introduces a fundamentally different concept: behavioral baselining. Understanding this distinction is critical for compliance and cybersecurity effectiveness.”

“Grid enhancing technologies (GETs) – also known as advanced transmission technologies (ATTs) – are hardware and software that can be deployed relatively quickly and cheaply to increase the efficiency of and space on the existing electricity grid.”

“AI-driven load growth is geographically concentrated and physically resource-intensive. But the principle holds: structural innovation – alongside technology – may be the unlock.”

“Portugal considers itself a living lab for the energy transition. Renewables now provide more than seventy percent of its electricity mix with a goal of ninety-three percent by 2030.”

“The public needs confidence that spending is being made in the right place, and there is a grid governance role for the customer to be heard. History has shown that when the public understands and supports the utility, rate cases have a greater chance for approval.”

“The U.S. grid has around 1,200 GW of installed capacity. Of that, about 750 GW are available at peak, and roughly 300 GW serve HVAC load. That means 40% of our electric capacity exists to support something that peaks only a few days each year.”

“I’d be hard-pressed to see where there’ll ever be any utility scale generation built again – renewable or fossil fuel – because of dynamics of the region; land is too valuable. Through OPSI, we are trying to work through that process.”