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Nov 20, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
EnergyBiz once again has captured Gold for Best Full Issue along with two medals for Best Single Articles in its category – energy/utilities/engineering publications - in the prestigious annual Eddie Award competition conducted by Folio magazine.
This year we also were awarded a Silver medal for the best online column/blog of ANY B-to-B publication – all industries.
We give...
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Nov 13, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
David Crane has lived the massive power outage in New Jersey that followed in Sandy’s wake. He was without power for days as were thousands of his fellow New Jersey residents. And that has given him some fresh insights.
“Our industry is based on wooden poles,” he said from the stage of the Edison Electric Institute’s financial conference in Phoenix yesterday. “Do...
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Nov 02, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
The ramifications of this week’s election on our national energy economy will be vast. The victor of the presidential battle will determine whether renewables will continue to expand – and the future of fossil fuels. He will shape the future of nuclear power.
In the election’s 11th hour, New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with an epic calamity on his hands after...
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Oct 17, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
The challenges confronting America’s utilities and energy companies may truly be unprecedented.
In just three weeks, a national presidential election will be decided that will force utilities to choose between radically different courses of action. The future of coal generation, nuclear power and renewables will be shaped by the victor. The future of electric vehicles will also be...
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Oct 09, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
If you happan to be in easy reach of Kansas City tomorrow, early evening, stop by the Plaza Branch of the library for a wide-ranging discussion of The Future of Energy.
A panel of energy and recycling experts will discuss The Future of Energy and Creating a Sustainable Community. Panelists: Kate Corwin, of GreenWorks Kansas City, Kristin Riott of Bridging the Gap, Bob Housh of the...
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Sep 14, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
Nuclear power must play a role in generating electricity if America is to ever help lead the world to a solution to global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Yet nuclear remains costly, and public concerns were heightened once again by the Fukushima accident in Japan last year. What path forward is there for nuclear to remain a vital – perhaps growing share – of our...
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Aug 28, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
Microsoft recently ended its bid to create a new huge business managing consumer energy use.
When the effort was launched, many utility leaders braced themselves for a bruising competition for the hearts and minds of electricity users.
Microsoft and Google were feared as huge but nimble technology giants who would know how to mine information about energy use patterns to benefit customers....
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Jul 17, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
Terry Jarrett, the Missouri state utility regulator, tells a story about how hackers two years back busted into the computer networks of a Puerto Rico utility. Before the dust settle, hundreds of millions of dollars a year were lost.
That was just money. Other crisis scenario planners worry that a successful prolonged disruption of power supplies would quickly cripple and panic our homeland...
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Jul 12, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
Jim Rogers is front page news as regulators and the media sort out 11th hour maneuvers in the executive suite of the newly merged Duke Energy and Progress Energy.
Over the years, I have had numerous opportunities to engage Jim in close conversation about the forces shaping his utility and the broader power industry. I have always found him thoughtful and provocative.
Jim was one of seven...
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Jun 28, 2012
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Martin Rosenberg
This spring I have had an opportunity to talk to a number of captains of utilities, public power agencies and coops.
They have a nagging concern about lip service done to an “all of the above” strategy on energy.
It basically is this. Utilities have a long history of going all in on one chosen technology until big problems emerge that force them to change course. I had lunch...
Martin Rosenberg is Editor-in-Chief
of EnergyBiz Magazine. EnergyBiz is a bimonthly business magazine for leaders in the new power industry. EnergyBiz
is a controlled circulation publication that reaches more than 20,000 of the most influential managers, executives,
legislators, regulators, lawyers and consultants who play critical roles in utilities, government, advisory firms,
and supplier companies.
