Energy Central Insights Special Issue Series Power Industry 2020 Predictions and Trends

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Energy Central Insights™ Special Issue Series   Power Industry: 2020 Predictions and Trends

Letter from the Vice President of The Power Industry Network: I hope you have enjoyed the last two publications of our 2020 Trends and Predictions Special Issue series. As mentioned before, this series is consistently our most read and talked about of the year. So, I am happy to pound the drum and remind you of how valuable the insights contained in this new annual tradition can be to you, as well as the rest of the utility industry. Below is part three of this five-part series. Articles in this series are by professionals and Energy Central Community Members who work in the trenches every day. Please take a moment to read their shared insights. Also, if you have an extra moment, we invite you to join the conversation by sharing your thoughts with the authors in the comments section. Whether you have a question, a disagreement, or want to add in your two cents, we invite you to initiate that dialogue. Shared insights and conversations in the community help us not only learn from each other, but together we'll be able to help shape the future of the utility industry. Audra C Drazga

New Posts         Josh Wepman, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Commercial Energy Solutions, Leidos     Locational Approach is Redefining Energy Efficiency Programs   As energy efficiency programs have matured, utilities have shifted from solely focusing on program performance to how these programs can better integrate into broader organization-wide strategies.... Click to continue       Ben Ettlinger, Manager, Digital Analytics, New York Power Authority     Tracking Emerging Technologies from the Crow's Nest - What Should be Considered in 2020   Overall almost 200 technologies have been identified that are emerging whether in the near term, midterm or much further out. These technical advances have some relationship or potential relation to... Click to continue       Margot Everett, Director, Guidehouse     Competing on Price - Utilities Using Pricing as a Competitive Advantage   For decades, the utility industry has billed customers using rates based on well-intentioned commonly accepted principles. During this time, many trends have developed that challenge this... Click to continue       Mike Edmonds, Chief Commercial Officer, S&C Electric Company     Grid Reliability: A Trend Built on Trends   The power industry and electrical grid are at a critical tipping point. Change is not only wanted, but it is needed to keep existing systems working at the level of performance necessary for daily... Click to continue       Casey Wells, Senior Managing Director and Lead for Accenture's utilities business globally, Accenture     FIVE TRENDS WILL REDEFINE UTILITIES IN 2020   Two words come to mind when characterizing the utilities industry over the past decade: disruption and transformation. Essentially, the unprecedented disruption in the market required significant... Click to continue       Rory Shaffer, Executive Director, Asset Performance Management, Utegration     Looking into the Future of Asset Analytics   As we enter this new decade of 2020 with bright eyes and renewed vigor, more so than ever before our businesses' asset operators need a clear way to understand what lies ahead.... Click to continue       Yohanes Nuwara, Geophysicist, owner of terra-analitika, Bandung Institute of Technology     Should We Build More Noah's Arks to Store Carbon Emission?   We have been now in 2020, the second decade of the twenty-first century. People face the increasingly worrisome that climate change has approached us faster than it was predicted.... Click to continue       CARLA RUBI CAELLAS, Energy Lawyer and Policy Advisor, Energy & Environment, PRAT RUBI ADVOCATS     THE DSO OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE   The so-called Energy Transition involves the transformation of the electricity grids, and their digitalization goes beyond their equipment. It is a new paradigm based on radical changes in the... Click to continue       Dan Delurey, President, Wedgemere Group     Decarbonization Dilemma: My Top 10 Predictions for 2020   Clean Energy gets defined as zero-GHG energy. Nuclear and Hydro don't get tossed out of that basket on the face of it.... Click to continue       Jacquie Ashmore, Executive Director, Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy     The Decade Ahead: Energy, Transportation, and Climate Action   Some decades make their mark more than others. As we cross the threshold of the 2020s, there's no doubt this decade will be a game-changer for our climate as the stakes grow catastrophically higher... Click to continue       Crystal Leaver, Corporate Marketing Manager, Uplight     Customer Experience 2.0: Predictions for 2020   We can all agree that the utility industry is in a massive transition to be more customer-centric, distributed, connected, and data-driven. In 2020, we will start to see this transition accelerate... Click to continue       Laurent Segalen, CEO, Megawatt-X     Our Energy World in 2030 - Redefining Energy   In Episode 17, Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen take a look at the 2020's and discuss what could be the biggest changes in energy. ... Click to continue       Lacey Shaver, City Renewable Energy Manager, World Resources Institute     Watch These 4 Clean Energy Trends in U.S. Cities in 2020   To increase access to renewable energy, the next decade will require greater partnership across sectors and more emphasis on system-level change. In many cases, cities will be the ones to help us... Click to continue       Marzia Zafar, Director of Issues Monitor and Innovation, World Energy Council     Five Steps to Energy Storage   Energy storage is renewable energy's best friend, but it can be the energy system's best friend also. It is a flexible tool that goes well beyond battery storage - we are short changing the system... Click to continue