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Chester Energy and Policy started in 2017 as a blog before blossoming into a full consulting business. The goal of the blog originally was simple: answer interesting questions in the world of energy & sustainability that weren’t being answered elsewhere, tapping into energy data sets, expert interviews, and a unique lens.

Today, the blog section of Chester Energy and Policy seeks to continue that mission: answering interesting questions. If you have a question that you think is worth diving into for a blog post, reach out and let us know! .

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Matt Chester 4/3/24 Matt Chester 4/3/24

USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Fusion: Is Commercialization in Sight?

There are intimations that fusion’s time may have arrived. After more than 70 years of research, huge public funding and many false starts, overblown expectations and sorry disappointments, are the prospects of an electricity-producing fusion plant at hand? Has the key to turn in the door of a vast storehouse of clean electricity become available?

Matt Chester 3/28/24 Matt Chester 3/28/24

Unlocking the Future of Utility Private LTE with Bruce Albright of Burns & McDonnell [Power Perspectives Conversations at DISTRIBUTECH 2024]

Change has become a core theme of the utility industry in recent years, and that type of transformation is not isolated to just one or two areas. Instead, the power sector is amidst multiple true evolutions, driven both by technological advancements and progressing consumer demands.

Matt Chester 3/27/24 Matt Chester 3/27/24

Exploring the Future of Utilities and Energy Infrastructure with Carlos Nouel of National Grid and Amith Kota of Landis+Gyr [Power Perspectives Conversations at DISTRIBUTECH 2024]

The utility sector is undergoing massive transformation, and one needs to look no further than the evolving conversations from one year to the next at a conference like DISTRIBUTECH about the ‘hot’ topic of the moment and the technologies that move from speculation to hype to pilot and ultimately scalable practice.

Matt Chester 3/26/24 Matt Chester 3/26/24

Traversing Grid-Wide Transformation through Digitalization with AspenTech’s Sally Jacquemin [Power Perspectives Conversations at DISTRIBUTECH 2024]

The new hardware, software systems, and tools on display on the conference floor in Orlando at DISTRIBUTECH 2024 were enough to keep eager attendees excited during the entire week. One such booth that had regular demonstrations of its latest and greatest Digital Grid Management software solutions was OSI, an AspenTech business, keeping onlookers occupied to watch what the next generation of Generation, Transmission, and Distribution utility operators could envision to advance operations technology within the utility control room of the future.

Matt Chester 3/22/24 Matt Chester 3/22/24

Demonstrating in Real-Time the Power of Collaboration for Next-Generation Grid Technology with ABB’s Jesse Koskela [Power Perspectives Conversations at DISTRIBUTECH 2024]

Amidst the dynamic atmosphere of the DISTRIBUTECH 2024 conference, a focal point for industry influencers shaping the future of energy, Jesse Koskela and his ABB colleagues stood out as key contributors in the discourse on groundbreaking innovations in grid technology

Matt Chester 3/21/24 Matt Chester 3/21/24

Navigating Tomorrow's Utility Landscape: A GIS Perspective with Esri Partner Jamie Chipps from FirstEnergy [Power Perspectives Conversations at DISTRIBUTECH 2024]

The digital transformation for the utility sector has unequivocally advanced beyond the stage of being a mere component of future plans or simply a researched hypothetical. Traversing the halls of the 2024 DISTRIBUTECH conference in Orlando this February, it seemed that not a single conversation or presentation wasn’t touching on the power of data for utilities, the existing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are transforming day-to-day operations, the value of geographic information systems (GIS) playing a role in asset management and maintenance, or another advanced digital tool that aids in the advancement of the industry.