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The Importance of Long-Term Planning

The Importance of Long-Term Planning

For some electric utilities, long-term strategic energy planning (a three-to five-year plan) is an integral part of their businesses. For others, it is on the “back burner.” And for still others, it is something that has never been done. What ...
Fifteen Possible Use Cases for AI in Telecom; It Could Save on Energy Too!

Fifteen Possible Use Cases for AI in Telecom; It Could Save on Energy Too!

Use cases for AI in Telecom and Energy. Are you ready for the future of AI? ...
12 Practical Steps to Take While You Wait for BEAD

12 Practical Steps to Take While You Wait for BEAD

Broadband service providers (BSPs), utility companies, and local municipalities are in a waiting pattern as they seek to expand their networks with the upcoming release of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program funding. While you wait for the ...
Energy Storage with Windmills and Solar Panels

The Opportunities for Growth in Utility-Scale Storage

As various technologies advance, they pose not only some challenges for electric utilities, but also some opportunities. One such technology is battery energy storage, which typically involves lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries often combined with solar, but also with other sources of ...
Utility Poles against the sky

Utility Poles Can Be A Big Asset In The Fiber Broadband Era

What utility companies need to know about make-ready requirements As the U.S. gets set to make an unprecedented investment in both energy and broadband, rural electric companies are considering what their involvement should be. As they do, it will be ...
Understanding the Metaverse - Are you ready for the next major shift in the internet?

Understanding the Metaverse – Are you ready for the next major shift in the internet?

Whether you know the term from science fiction, in reference to new technologies, related to Facebook’s name change, or from somewhere else, it’s likely you’ve at least heard of the metaverse. But what is it? The metaverse is a new ...
Putting Make-ready Requirements Into Context For The Broadband Era

Putting Make-ready Requirements Into Context For The Broadband Era

As the U.S. gets set to make an unprecedented investment in both energy and broadband, rural electric companies are considering what their involvement should be. As they do, it will be important for them to recognize the important role that ...
How Vulnerable Is Your Network?

How Vulnerable Is Your Network?

Electric utilities and broadband networks provide essential services to the communities and regions they serve. Yet, as these core industries, vital to our nation’s infrastructure, progressively continue to overlap into each other’s arenas, new vulnerabilities and security hazards are introduced ...
Distributed Energy Resources Play An Increasing Role In The "Green Future"

Distributed Energy Resources Play An Increasing Role In The “Green Future”

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and numerous other governmental and private organizations and agencies, the “grid will continue to go green,” and DER (distributed energy resources) will play an ever-increasing role in this journey. An August 2022 ...
The value of Grid/system hardening measures for electric utilities.

The value of Grid/system hardening measures for electric utilities.

It doesn’t really matter what part of the country your utility is located, it is virtually guaranteed that you will be subject to potential grid damage from at least one of a number of natural occurrences. These can include hurricanes, ...
Five Things to Consider Before BEAD funding - The calm before the storm

Five Things to Consider Before BEAD funding – The calm before the storm

The Somewhat Calm Before the BEAD Funding Wave - Five Ways to Get Ready and Prepare There’s a broadband industry maelstrom going on right now as the federal government, the FCC, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and state ...
Is Your Distribution System Ready For Fiber?

Is Your Distribution System Ready For Fiber?

Thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, there is an unprecedented amount of federal dollars currently allocated toward the creation of fiber broadband networks. Electric utility companies considering an investment in the ...
Don't Wait for BEAD

Don’t Wait for BEAD

The broadband world is on the edge of its collective seat while the impending $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program is being rolled out with little changes day by day. Meanwhile, other broadband funding programs are getting ...
Whitepaper on tribal broadband funding

Tribal Broadband Funding in a Time of Opportunity

Indigenous communities continue to face some of the greatest broadband deficiencies in the United States. A 2021 study showed that only 67% of Tribal Lands and Reservations in the U.S. have access to broadband, and many people living in those ...
USDA Programs Offer Grants and Loans to Electric Utilities

USDA Programs Offer Grants and Loans to Electric Utilities

For rural electric co-ops and municipal electrical utilities, there are some relatively new grant and loan programs being offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that can lighten the financial load on these utilities as they work to expand ...
The Future of Electric Utilities- Part 1

The Future of Electric Utilities- Part 1

Decades ago, there was a lot of work involved in keeping an electric utility running – making sure there was enough coal or nuclear power for generation, and as well as building and maintaining transmission and distribution lines. These days, ...
The Future of Electric Utilities- Part 2

The Future of Electric Utilities- Part 2

Decades ago, as noted in Part 1 of this white paper, there was a lot of work involved in keeping an electric utility running – making sure there was enough coal or nuclear power for generation, and building and maintaining ...
Twelve Possible Use Cases for AI in Telecom: It Could Save on Energy Too

Twelve Possible Use Cases for AI in Telecom: It Could Save on Energy Too

The telecom industry is evolving rapidly, and the effective integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key factor in staying competitive. AI can play a crucial role by enhancing various aspects of operations and services. It can enhance efficiency, ...

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