![]() Joe Weiss, an astute observer of the electric utility industry and a veteran of the Electric Power Research Institute, says the future utility “will be dominated by data and the communications tools that manage it.”ĭata, sometimes described as the new oil, needs cybersecure pathways, which is what private networks offer. ![]() But they are picking up now and threaten to be at gale force before long, demanding better communications to manage the new order of things. So far, the winds of change have been felt as a gentle breeze. They are leaving their comfort zone of central generation for a world of new generation, new power flows, new storage, and with it structural and political challenges. The group has been formed at a time when utilities are facing change, or a reset, across the range of their activities. Its 37 members, plus Anterix, represent a new vision of the utility future and how to get there. In my many years of writing about the electric utility industry, I have never encountered anything as ambitious as this group. ![]() ![]() Our Anterix Active Ecosystem Program will provide members with the collaborative environment needed to further develop broadband solutions - entirely under the utilities’ control.” Rob Schwartz, president and CEO of Anterix, said, “I am ecstatic.
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