Submit nominations by Monday October 2

Steve Jobs: Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea.

Albert Einstein: If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. 

Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Andy Warhol: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Wayne Gretzky: Statistically speaking, 100% of the shots you don't take, don't go in.

Thomas Edison: Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.


The PUF team is busily collecting and sorting the nominations thus far submitted for the 2017 Fortnightly Top Forty Innovators. Submit your nominations by the Monday October 2 deadline. 

November's Public Utilities Fortnightly — featuring the Top Forty Innovators — looks like it will be the greatest issue in our eighty-nine years. It'll highlight and honor the passion and inventiveness of the Top Forty and, indeed, all the nominees. It'll have interviews on innovation with NARUC, EPRI, National Governors Association, AEP, NYPA, Energy Impact Partners and others. 

Drop us a line if you need any help getting your nominations in. Joe Paparello (paparello@fortnightly.com) and Alexandra Revel (arevel@fortnightly.com) are standing by. 


The constantly-innovating magazine for commentary, opinion and debate on utility regulation and policy, Public Utilities Fortnightly. "In PUF, Impact the Debate."

Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly

E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com