ORLANDO — Led by its regulated utilities, Con Edison is poised for a powerful future, said John McAvoy, chairman, president and CEO of Consolidated Edison Inc., during a presentation earlier this week at the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) Financial Conference held here.
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ORLANDO — Distributed energy resources (DER) including rooftop solar, battery storage and electric vehicles offer improved economic alternatives to a centralized grid design, enhanced consumer choice, more flexibility in grid planning and operations, and a smaller carbon footprint made by the elec... Read More »
ORLANDO — Transformations impacting the nation’s behemoth public electric utility industry are happening so quickly that modern-day decision-making from the top chief executives must occur practically at the flip of a switch.
In fact, several CEOs considered the present and looked toward the ... Read More »
Energy trade associations responded positively to a sweeping tax reform bill unveiled by House Republicans on Thursday that they said would fuel investment in important energy infrastructure in the United States.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) introduced the Tax Cuts a... Read More »
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) announced this week that it is seeking members for a working group that will assess the capabilities emerging technologies and integrates them into the grid as part of its NextGrid: Illinois’ Utility of the Future study.
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Puerto Rico Public Power Authority (PREPA) CEO Ricardo Ramos recently sent a letter to the American Public Power Association (APPA) and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) requesting assistance in bringing resources to Puerto Rico to support power restoration.
APPA and EEI received the letter an... Read More »
Intense wildfires that roared through Northern California this month tested the resiliency of the electric grid, and an increase in extreme weather events predicted by scientists could continue to challenge the utilities industry.
In the aftermath of wildfires in its service area in California,... Read More »
Efforts to strengthen the electrical ties between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) and the Lower Peninsula (LP), as well as to Ontario, have suffered a setback after a state study revealed construction costs outweigh any benefit.
Such is the preliminary findings of the Michigan Transmission Expa... Read More »
Energy industry experts called for greater government participation and public/private sector partnerships to help protect the electric grid from the growing number of cyber intrusions, like the one that took down the power system in Ukraine in 2015.
Testifying before the Senate Energy and Natura... Read More »
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, but the utilities industry is looking ahead to November when it will train to tackle potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation’s electric grid.
On Nov. 15-16, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) will conduct GridEx IV... Read More »