Erin Hardick
Erin Hardick is a producer for Latitude Media, working primarily on the Green Blueprint, With Great Power, and Columbia Energy Exchange podcasts. She wears a number of other Latitude Media hats in addition to her production work — she conducts research for Latitude Intelligence, writes pieces of reported analysis and commentary for the news site, and occasionally contributes writing to Latitude Studios as well.
Erin has almost a decade of experience researching the electric utility industry and energy transition, having held senior analyst positions at the Utility Analytics Institute and Zpryme. She is a former fellow of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and Climatebase.
Platte River Power Authority’s IRP calls for 32 megawatts of VPP capacity — but the utility currently doesn’t even have a DERMs.
Traditional customer information systems can’t keep up.
Accelerated computing could have a big impact on utility operations — maybe even a bigger impact than artificial intelligence.
Hudson Gilmer said it took years to make the start-up’s dynamic line rating technology utility-grade.
SMRs have long had the industry's attention, but with the surge in energy demand, shuttered nuclear plants may be ready for a second act.
The shift toward websites and mobile apps is pushing more difficult customer problems to the call centers.
Other recent decisions will also cut into regulators' power.
“We're going to lose market share over the next five to 10 years,” said Chile’s ex-mining minister.
The first step for utilities deploying artificial intelligence? Ditch the spreadsheets.
The country has no plans to take sides in the West's trade war with China, and in fact wants more Chinese capital.
For decades, time-of-use pricing lived in pilot purgatory. But electric vehicles changed that.
The grid operator decided to keep the 80 megawatt cap on its groundbreaking ADER pilot and focus on collecting device-level data.
Fero Labs chief scientist said artificial intelligence will contribute to growing power demand — but could provide more benefits than stress to grid operators.
EDF executive warns “we need to proceed on the basis of sound science” when it comes to clean hydrogen deployment.
Grid optimization expert Kyri Baker says AI can replace manual operations in many areas — as long as humans are in the loop.