Balancing customer and environmental demands and existing and emerging technologies to create a sustainable energy future requires bold, confident leadership to navigate the challenges of change. Here’s a look at the perspectives on the future of leadership and strategy from some of the C-level energy and utility industry leaders gathering at the 2010 KEMA Utility [...]
'Smart Grid'
The smart grid-enabled utility-customer relationship.
The Electric Power Board (EPB) of Chattanooga – one of the largest municipal power distributors in the country – is currently building a 100% fiber optic communication system that will be the backbone for their Smart Grid. EPB executive VP and COO David Wade will be examining what’s next in the utility-customer relationship and balancing [...]
Smart Grid Technology: Cellular Emerges As Viable Communications Choice
A small Texas pilot project may change how smaller utilities communicate with smart meters. The results show that cellular (or “public wireless”) will give RF Mesh a run for its money, at least with municipals and smaller utilities just now starting to make decisions about Smart Grid technology. (RF Mesh systems have been the choice [...]
Innovations in utility strategy. Perspectives from Duke Energy.
Duke Energy has been at the forefront of redefining utility strategy, management and operations to balance reliability, sustainability and performance objectives. The Chairman and CEO of the Fortune 500 power company will be sharing insight into innovations in utility strategy and into balancing business and technology for sustainable energy supply and delivery at the KEMA [...]
Exploring the utility future: Strategic Choices – Striking Equilibrium
Want a view from the top on critical issues facing energy and utility industry and stakeholders? Industry leaders and CEOs are gathering at KEMA Utility of the Future 2010 forum in June to explore business and strategy implications of the rapidly evolving utility market landscape. The forum features a dynamite line-up of who’s who in [...]

