Course Topics

发电、输电和配电

Skip Collier - Professional Training Systems, Inc.

• Basics of generation, transmission, and distribution, including electrical terminology, 设备, construction, and operating theory

Natural Gas Production, Transmission, and Delivery

Richard Moore 

• 天然气生产、输送和分配的基础知识，包括基本设备和 its operation

新的核 

• 制造更安全、更经济的核反应堆的最新研究和发展

公用事业会计和财务报告-公用事业如何赚钱

Julie Desimone - Moss-Adams 

• Basic accounting concepts
• 财务报表传达了什么信息以及如何使用它们
• 成本管理和如何知道什么时候你在赚钱

Financial Management and Capital Markets

Brandon Lohse——阿肯色州电力合作公司

• Value creation and the cost of capital/money
• Financial policy development and accessing capital
• Financial quality and credit ratings
• Perspective of a utility sector investment manager

Regulation and Rate Making

Ric盖尔

• 费率制定过程，包括收入要求、成本分配和费率设计
• How rate mechanisms are used in general rate cases

公用事业立法和监管倡导-理解大局 

• 行业倡导在告知和塑造公共政策方面发挥的作用
• 立法者，州监管者和联邦电力管理委员会的责任
• 顾客的偏好以及稳定的价格和可靠的服务之间的紧张关系
• State's rights vs. federal rights

Customer Experience

Roy Barnes - Blue Space Consulting 

• Customer experience design and management 
• 将客户体验融入到产品和服务设计中
• Identify and communicate the customer experience ROI

安全 Culture

Bo Hanchey - Idaho Power

• 创造一种超越协议、培训和设备的安全文化
• 致力于安全卓越，提高安全绩效, operational effectiveness, and business performance

包容性Leadership:理解和管理无意识偏见

斯科特·霍顿和梅勒妮·米勒-三角洲概念咨询公司

• 创造个人学习和实用的Leadership技能来管理, 引领, and contribute to a diverse and inclusive environment 

Strategic Leadership in the Natural Gas Industry 

• 公用事业行业对提高安全、管理风险和推动持续改进的看法
• 当前事件如何影响天然气运营、业务战略和实践

Strategic Human 资源 

• 能源行业的挑战和对劳动力的影响
• Digital workforce
• Culture, engagement, and employee experience
• Talent crisis
• Workforce of the future

Regulatory Strategy

Noel Black - Southern Company

• 监管模式如何支持或不支持不断变化的行业
• How regulatory strategy supports corporate strategy
• 当前的问题包括屋顶太阳能、极端天气、电动汽车基础设施、脱碳 

体验变化:加速并实现战略、计划和解决方案

• Quickly turn powerful ideas and solutions into reality
• Speak and act with a common language
• 让利益相关者围绕新的做事方式保持一致并参与进来
• Build a highly engaged culture of execution

Strategic Trends in Consumer Engagement

Greg Guthridge - EY电力和公用事业咨询实践 

• How technology advances are powering new ways to engage
• Managing information for competitive advantage
• Building innovative products and services
• 非传统玩家如何挑战公用事业的商业模式

Fuel 多样性: Integrated Resource Planning 

Scott Kinney - Avista 

• Trends in generation and the changing fuel mix
• How to manage fuel diversity
• Integrated resource planning process

Wholesale Power Markets 

• Generation sources in the regional and national mix
• RTO market overview
• 区位边际定价与金融传导权的基本设计特征
• Where RTO markets are going 

Trends in Energy 安全

Charles Durant - Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

• 最脆弱的区域以及谁负责监督电网的物理保护
• 检测和转移对关键公用事业基础设施系统的攻击的策略
• 加强我们的基础设施抵御中断的弹性所面临的挑战

Energy Storage 

Vince Sprenkle - Pacific Northwest National Lab

• Resource flexibility and reliability trends

Reliability: Advanced Grid Planning and Operations

Dana Cabbell - Southern California Edison

• 智能电网在优化之路上走到了哪里
• 为客户实现新的用途，并将其集成到运营中
• 集可再生能源、先进AMI、分布式发电、储能于一体 

Data Analytics

Mo Al-Ahmar - Southern California Edison; Tim Fairchild - SAS; Lee Ragsdale - North Carolina's Electric Cooperative; Johnny Whitfield - OGE Energy Corp.

• Using predictive analytics for risk prioritization
• 能源公司如何利用大数据更直接地满足客户需求
• How big data is transforming the energy industry
• Machine learning and AI  

Next Gen Technologies 

• Zero carbon sources of energy
• 互联家居设备与下一波需求响应
• Automation enables new capabilities

Environmental Collaboration

• 消除意想不到的监管障碍，提高公用事业公司投资环境解决方案的能力
• 使能源效率和可再生能源成为利润中心
• Creating diversified, 对环境负责的电力和天然气资源组合，确保为客户提供更可靠和负担得起的服务
• 联邦环境立法对公用事业行业的影响

Experience Innovation: Design Thinking Simulation

Lyall Samaroden - ExperiencePoint

• 以人为本的设计和平衡分析与直觉
• 成功创新者的术语、技巧和思维模式

能源工业与环境——塑造Future  

• How public policy, emerging technologies, 不断变化的客户需求和期望正在改变能源行业
• Major trends reshaping the utility industry

CEO Panel - Pathways to the Future 

• Identifying and prioritizing key success factors
• 为今天的管理决策的Future影响进行情景规划
• 根据不同利益相关者的利益调整公司战略

Strategic Partnerships 

• 利用战略合作伙伴关系为客户提供价值
• Responding to digital innovations
• Core competencies for collaboration

气候影响:利益相关者、弹性、可负担性和风险

• 公用事业公司如何管理不同利益相关者的气候影响
• 公用事业公司如何为Future定位