For the past nine years, I have been focused on how electric utilities, other critical infrastructure asset owners, and the supply community protect against the ever-evolving, rapidly changing cybersecurity threat. Cyber is the only domain in which we ask the private sector to be responsible for national security.

We have something in the U.S. that Germany does not: cheap natural gas. This has made all the difference for America.

Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority is currently unable to fulfill its payment obligations. The newly created Puerto Rico Energy Commission developed three key regulatory proceedings. These proceedings have been subjected to public scrutiny and have created a sense of hope for the restructuring of Puerto Rico’s electric system.

We examine the impacts of dynamic pricing on conservation and load shifting in the hot and humid climate of Florida. We then compare the results to those from dynamic pricing experiments across the world. Our evaluation is based on the Energy Smart Florida pilot study, which was run by Florida Power and Light, the third-largest electric utility in the United States.

Cold at Home, a short documentary film, depicts how Katerina, her son Stephan and her granddaughter Maria cope with having been picked up by the perfect storm and dropped into an extreme situation. The ongoing war in Donetsk cost Stephan his job and forced them to live year-round in Katerina’s summer dacha near Kiev.

PUF talked with Tim Lieuwen, Strategic Energy Institute’s executive director, and Rich Simmons, senior research engineer and fellow.

PUF attended INTERSECT: Energy, Policy and Innovation on April 4, 2017

Laron Evans is an up and coming engineer who attended the 2017 American Association of Blacks in Energy's conference.

Paula Glover is executive director of American Association of Blacks in Energy.