⚡ It has been an electric month for Energy Central. We had a steady current of game-changing insights from our editorial team, community, and partners.
Here’s some of the best content to hit our wires in recent weeks:
🥳 We celebrated some amazing Top Contributors who are going above and beyond for the community:
May’s Top Contributors: CESAR DE ABREU, Atul Pandurang Joshi, and Doug Starfield
Our most recent Honorees: Attila Menyhart, Julian Jackson, and Elizabeth Pearce
🖊 Our editorial team delivered original reporting on everything from FERC's historic orders to the promise of 'rolling power plants' to the (hazy) outlook for permitting reform.
💬 We hosted a DC event with IFS Copperleaf, featuring everything from a (very popular) asset investment planning game to compelling conversations on the future of energy.
🤝 We also published some amazing partner insights on timely topics:
Why early planning is the smartest move coal asset owners can make by Michael Gallahue of GHD
How GIS Can Help Utilities Understand Grid Influence by Bill Meehan of Esri
Asset Management’s Need for Grid Modeling by Damien Quentin of Engineered Intelligence
🎤 And on Power Perspectives, industry leaders tackled today’s most urgent energy questions:
Zoraya Oliver-Griffin, LADWP's Chief Resiliency and Emergency Officer, broke down the long-term resilience strategy for the country’s largest municipally-owned utility
Sammy Roth, the voice behind the Climate-Colored Goggles Substack, gave us the fix for utilities' messaging problem
Otto Lynch, Head of Power Line Systems at Bentley Systems, revealed why vegetation management needs a new playbook
Audrey Zibelman, former executive at Alphabet's X moonshot factory, explained what it'll actually take the make DERs an essential grid tool
Jim Smith, President of PowerSecure, explored the tech that can fix the data center interconnection dilemma—and climate tech investor Ramez Naam told us why he thinks data centers should run on solar (not gas)
Kathiann Kowalski, an investigative journalist, dove into the ongoing fallout from one of the country's most consequential utility corruption case.
🎥 The Energy Central Events team and our partners have brought some can't-miss conversations (that you can replay!) on:
Modernizing substation physical security (from 3B Protection, FLIR, and Convergint)
Optimizing utility capital programs (from SSP Innovations and PG Partners)
Preparing for a more dynamic regulatory future (from IFS Copperleaf)
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