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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:

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.”
Byline: 

Elizabeth Cook

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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.”
Byline: 

Lawrence Jones

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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.”
Byline: 

Alberto Del Rosso and Anna Lafoyiannis

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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.”
Byline: 

Derek Wissmiller and Ryan Jones

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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.”
Byline: 

Clint Vince

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Picture Energy: Nuclear Energy Security Summit

Intersection of Energy and Security

At the Nuclear Energy Security Summit, the Chairs of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness joined many other leaders at this conference on this latest nuclear renaissance that promises to deliver an impressive variety and number of new plant designs as a part of the energy transformation.
Byline: 

PUF

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