Happy Birthday, Thomas Davenport
Davenport, inventor of the direct current motor, was born in Vermont on July 9, 1802.
PUF's Where's Energy
Saluting the IBEW and Utility Workforce
An excerpt from July's PUF column “Resilience is Their Middle Name.”
Happy Birthday, David Lilienthal (July 8)
Commissioner David Lilienthal, whose birthday is July 8, wrote a PUF article while at the Wisconsin Public Service Commission.
He later became one of the nation's most influential utility regulators, then a key leader of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration on energy matters, then the chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority - he was really the driving force in TVA's creation — and then the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Read our July issue
Our July issue is now available digitally.
What Comes Down, Must Go Up
Over the last two weeks, electric sales in the PJM and MISO regions were up.
Utilities Can Encourage Innovation Without Being Tech Giant
Contributed by Earl Simpkins, Varun Bhatnagar, and Amy Zhao at Strategy&.
Fortnightly Electricity Report, as of June 9
A turnaround has happened, for the first time during this virus crisis.
Flying a Kite
June 15 is a gigantic day for utility regulation and policy.
Read Our June 15 Special Issue
The State and Future of Power
Happy King Kamehameha Day
June 11 of course is King Kamehameha Day celebrating the founder of the Kingdom of Hawaii. It will be a shame if the traditional parade, festival and hula dancing must be scaled back because of the virus crisis.
Which makes us think of the time when a successor, King Kalakaua, and Thomas Edison met on September 25, 1881 in New York, while the King was on a world tour. Edison so impressed the King about electric lighting and the potential for electricity generally that Hawaii actually became a world leader in electrifying.