March/April 2013 (Vol. 38 No. 2)

Features

• INNOVATION IN THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY - Collaboration among regulators, industry stakeholders, customers, and electric utilities themselves is essential to technological innovation and industry transformation.
  
• THE BASIC AND THE NEW - It's not just one or the other.
  
• BUILDING LEADERS - Exelon’s leadership development programs are helping new front-line supervisors find success and increased opportunities for advancement.
  
• DATA DRIVEN - Electric utilities see new opportunities in the enormous amounts of data they now collect from the smart grid.
  
• POWERING INNOVATIONS - Electricity is everywhere and is poised to fuel the future, strengthen the economy through technology, and make our lives even better.
  

News & Trends

• NEWS & TRENDS - Superstorm Sandy challenge coin...best practices on mitigating bird collisions...multi-tasking consumers plug in...office moves...surging coal exports...second life for concrete poles...EEI's safety achievement awards...and more.
  

Departments

• POWERING CHANGE - Cybersecurity legislation.
  
• POWER POLL - After the deluge.
  
• THE ENERGY ECONOMIST - Industrial rebound fueled by gas.
  
• BUILDING THE FUTURE - Duke Energy's Cliffside, H.F. Lee, and Dan River plants.
  
• FINANCE - Industry marks banner year for dividends.
  
• REGULATION - Capital expenditures continue to drive recent rate cases.
  
• ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE - Challenges and high hopes.