Whether you're looking at the Energy Central Community or watching the headlines of your local newspaper, you're undoubtedly seeing grid reliability and resiliency as highly discussed topics.
- Major weather events (e.g., hurricanes) and natural disasters (e.g., wildfires) have raised the concern for hardening the grid.
- The rise of digitalization has offered new opportunities for a smarter grid, but with that, it has also brought about new challenges in terms of cybersecurity.
- The push for the electrification of transportation has brought about its own challenges.
- Increased development of power generation sources like solar, wind, and battery storage requires us to focus on building and modernizing a new grid to support bi-directional flow of power.
All of this is happening against the backdrop of a clean energy transition where debate continues around the best way to decarbonize energy without sacrificing reliability and resiliency.
As the premiere online community for utility professionals, we want to bring the best and brightest minds together to share their successes, lessons learned, and plans for the future of the grid. Thus, we are asking for the community to share their insights for our upcoming October Special Issue: "The Grid: Reliability & Resiliency."
For this issue, we want to hear from you! We are seeking stories, white papers, and case studies from our community for this Special Issue Edition. We are especially looking for insights on the following topics: Underground vs. Overhead, Outage Management, Vegetation Management, Drones, Extreme Events Management, Wildfires & Storms, and any other related topics.
Our Special Issues present a unique opportunity to share your experiences with peers in the industry and perhaps even help kickstart conversations that help you and others uncover new potential solutions and opportunities.
How you can Participate:
For Professionals who work for a Utility, IPP, RTO, or Government Agency
We're inviting submissions from experts and leaders with expertise in our Special Issue topic. Participating in the issue is an opportunity to share your hands-on experiences, lessons learned, and perhaps your predictions for the coming years with your fellow community members.
- Submission is free for professionals who work for utilities, IPPs, RTOs, or government agencies. See below for details on how to submit an article and for deadlines.
Invitation for Solution Providers and Industry Vendors to Get Involved:
This Special Issue is a great way to share your insights and message with the power industry. There are two ways you can participate as a Solution Provider/Vendor:
Option 1: Participate as a Content Partner with Featured Content and Sponsorship Recognition. This option includes the following:
- Guaranteed inclusion in the Special Issue Newsletter
- Submitted content needs to meet our Special Issue criteria as an in-depth thought leadership piece around the specific topic focus. Length is ideally 5-10 paragraphs. Charts and graphics are encouraged and welcome! Featured Resources like Case Studies, White Papers, etc., are also accepted.
- Content will be promoted in additional Network Newsletters.
- Content will be published under a custom-branded company page. Follow the link for an example.
- Content will be promoted through our social channels of 100K plus.
- Product mentions and company links may be included.
- Sponsorship recognition
To learn how you can contribute an article or become an official content sponsor of this special issue, please get in touch with a client representative at [email protected] or Download our Product Guide now for more information.
Option 2: Participate as an independent author sharing an in-depth thought leadership article
This option does not guarantee article inclusion in the Special Issue Newsletter or under the Special Issue Topic Page. We may, however, approve the article to be posted in the Community.
- If you have already received a "free" thought leadership article in another issue, yours will likely not be included in this edition. We limit each issue to about 8-10 articles.
- Under this option, you cannothave any product mentions or company links in the article. Any article submitted that includes product and company mentions will be declined unless you choose to participate as a content sponsor.
Instructions for Participation:
Send your submissions to [email protected] with the subject 'The Grid.' If you need feedback on your submission idea, feel free to send questions or even an abstract to the same email address. We are looking for more in-depth articles on this subject (5-10 paragraphs)- a little more than what you would typically share as part of a community blog post.
- Final submissions due date: October 19th, 2022
- Issue deployment date: October 27th, 2022
- Approvals will be sent on: October 25th
To learn more about our Special Issue Article Guidelines and Review Process, follow this link.