Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Christie recently noted: “The United States is heading for a reliability crisis…. Dispatchable generating resources are retiring far too quickly and in quantities that threaten our ability to keep the lights...
While families gathered for a long holiday weekend in late December 2022, the bulk power system narrowly avoided cascading outages across the Eastern Interconnection. Winter Storm Elliott brought Arctic air and strong winds, forcing outages of more than 70,000 MW of...
As of this writing, we are well over three years beyond the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. The utilities industry has been dealing with post-COVID whipsaw effects of higher prices, higher interest rates, and evolving objectives. During and before the...
Energy is front-page news in Australia. In November 2022, ScottMadden Consulting joined the Smart Electric Power Alliance and a group of power utility executives to understand the impact of the clean energy transition on Australia’s electricity markets. One...
Improving the Customer Experience, Boosting Productivity and Efficiency, and Reducing Costs In 2017, shared services conferences buzzed with anticipation as banners proclaimed, “The robots are coming!” with robotic process automation (RPA) and chatbot...
