Energy Central

10/07/2025

GIS for collaboration: Do more...faster

At the core of running an efficient, resilient power system, there’s one singular need: interoperability. Do you have one place where everyone, across teams and structures, can go to get the real-time...

10/07/2025

USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Natural Gas Is King Now, But Can It Rule?

Video recording of the session at the bottom of this post, along with open Q&A discussion from the session taking place actively on the Energy Central Community: Natural gas, always a favorite with ...

10/07/2025

Welcome Your New Expert Interview Series: William Craft https://buff.ly/yP1K0J1

09/07/2025

Why Utility Leaders Must Prioritize Energy Storage Safety—Before It’s Too Late

Co-Authored by Kevin Hernandez & Luke Martin. As utilities race to meet ambitious decarbonization and reliability goals, battery energy storage systems have become a cornerstone of the transition to a ...

03/07/2025

Piloting the Future: How to scale with simplicity, ft. It’s Electric & Leading Cities

The first step to creating widespread change in energy? Know the problem you need to solve. For Tiya Gordon, cofounder & COO of It's Electric, that problem was this: More people would get EVs if they ...

01/07/2025

The utility workforce wakeup call

Behind the energy transition’s headlines about megawatts and microgrids lurks a quiet but critical crisis: a severe shortage of skilled trade workers. These electricians, technicians, lineworkers, and...

26/06/2025

How utility leaders predict the future with GIS

Welcome back to The GISt. When you see relationships and patterns, you don’t just take a peek at opportunities—you get a preview of risks…and a chance to get out in front of changes that need to be ...

26/06/2025

Welcome Your New Expert Interview Series: Siddharth Saxena

The utility sector is undergoing a seismic transformation, driven by the dual pressures of modernizing aging infrastructure and meeting rising customer expectations. Advanced technologies like AI, ...

25/06/2025

Welcome Your New Expert Interview Series: David Castree https://buff.ly/7GGUtiG

24/06/2025

Piloting the Future: There's no innovation without community buy-in, ft. BuildingLens & Prosper Portland

Tackling energy’s biggest problems requires true innovators to start somewhere—small solutions turn into enormous ones, faster than you might think. This week on Piloting the Future, hosts Kim Getgen ...

24/06/2025

Redefining utility success w/ Australia's biggest power pros

For decades, utility performance has been judged by how well companies met regulatory requirements—but is that enough for the energy transition ahead? In this episode of Power Perspectives, we look at ...

24/06/2025

GIS Takes the Chaos Out of Emergency Management

Respond with real-time information Because a utility’s emergency processes rely heavily on location, a geographic information system (GIS) is critical to providing timely, accurate, and complete ...