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Successful Practice Challenge: How can a utility continuously test and improve its Emergency Response Plan in order to be better able to perform during those mega storms that too often are just not expected?
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Not every future senior leader in the energy industry is an engineer or a finance person. And not everyone who is an engineer or a finance whiz will make it into senior management either. There is clearly no one path to promotion, but as I hope you are beginning to see, there are some....
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Successful Practice Challenge: Can an electric utility cut its stock of CTs from nine different sizes to just two? Will switching to newer technology units still fit existing applications? What if the application needs to be more accurate than the standard 0.3% accuracy for revenue metering?
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Successful Practice Challenge: How can U.S. electric utilities protect themselves when buying transformers from overseas manufacturers? What specs and processes are necessary pre-contract, during construction, and during transportation to the utility site?
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Successful Practice Challenge: Power and lighting poles are still primarily wood. Are there alternatives to wood poles? What are they? What role are environmental pressures encouraging the use of non-chemically preserved poles changing the market? Who is using alternative poles today?
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Successful Practice Challenge: Can pipelines, electric transmission companies, and utilities obtain needed right of way with less negative community reaction? Even though eminent domain may be available as a tool, are there successful strategies to arrive at a negotiated agreement, thereby avoiding expense and time?
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Ultimately, moving up in an organization means getting quality work done by others. No matter how great an engineer, HR practitioner, accountant, or salesperson one is, one person can only get so much done effectively and efficiently. The more quality and timely results your team achieves, the greater...
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Successful Practice Challenge: The utility industry as a whole continues to have fatalities and serious injuries from line work. The work is repetitive and is often done under difficult weather conditions. Both situations can lead linemen to use short cuts. Often the short cuts work out…until there is a death or serious injury. How can our industry overcome the “I’ve done this a thousand times before, I can do this in my sleep, why should I pay attention to another safety message?”
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Successful Practice Challenge: How can a utility potentially reduce its vulnerability to theft, malicious damage, cyber crime, workplace violence, and other security-related issues? Could there be savings be on insurance costs, avoided OSHA fines, and law suits if a fully-implemented security program were in place?
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Successful Practice Challenge: How can gas utility workers working on an abnormal operating conditions (AOC) situation such as a system leak or damage to a gas line that are vulnerable to flash fires - be better protected? Is there a way to protect them for at least eight seconds in case of fire? Is there a protective multi-layer coverall that also has a built in harness so the employee can be extracted from the AOC without risking other employees?
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