Utilities
February 19, 2013
James Kelly, former Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Environmental Policy for Southern California Edison, charts the fast-evolving changes and innovations of today’s smart grid sector.
February 19, 2013
Interview with David Jacot, Director of Energy Efficiency at the LADWP, on the $267-million energy efficiency budget for the next two fiscal years.
December 4, 2012
State Senator Alex Padilla, representative of the San Fernando Valley’s 20th district and chairman of the Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee, talks MIR through the committee’s past and future efforts towards a greener energy system.
December 4, 2012
Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, and Jacob Lipa, president of Psomas Engineering in Los Angeles, discuss TaKaDu’s data-collecting software for water utilities, and how California stacks up in the global push for better water infrastructure.
December 19, 2011
Excerpts from an Urban Land Institute panel on energy efficiency, power generation, and development. As utilities and energy companies move towards distributed power, how can building owners, businesses, and developers act now?
November 8, 2011
What is the smart grid? Where are the Southern California utilities in working towards its implementation? A Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles panel examines these questions.
November 3, 2011
Los Angeles' power and water infrastructure system is aging, and a spirit of environmental responsibility is driving the LADWP to make bold changes. Addressing these developments, however, requires significant capital investment. The current economic and political climate makes advocating for expensive investments a daunting challenge. In a recent talk, LADWP General Manager Ron Nichols explained the situation and his approach.
April 3, 2013
James Kelly, Doug Kim, Osamu Onodera, and Panama Bartholomy discuss the development of a smart grid at the VerdeXchange VX2013 Conference in February. This is part two of a series also featuring Mike Montoya of Southern California Edison.
February 26, 2012
Ron Nichols, General Manager of the LADPW, at the fifth VerdeXchange Conference offers remarks on the challenges the utility faces in reaching renewable energy goals and mandates. Rates will climb, and the Nichols is certain that the LADWP can reach the 33 percent renewables requirement.
October 7, 2011
From the CleanTech OC 2011 Annual Conference and Expo comes this conversation between Marcie Edwards, Michael Peevey, Tim Olson, Stephen Mullenix, and Guy Blanchard on renewable utilities in California. The panelists focus on whether the regulatory bodies create certainty or ambiguity in the California renewables market.
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