Utility of the Future or Fiction A Dialogue between the Future & the Past

What’s up with the electric and gas grids? Well, this book provides a few ideas, i.e. storms, super storms, floods, renewables, intermittent Distributed Energy Resources, unrestricted systems for renewables, COVID, inflation, high-interest rates, employees exodus due to retirement, hackers’ lust for targeting the grid, political conflicts and wars, building electrification, electrification, climate change, 100% clean and renewable energy systems, rise in lithium cost, nuclear future, smart cities, communication networks, O&M limited budget, mergers & acquisition, transactive energy, FERC Order 2222, smart grids, customers transformation into prosumers, carbon pricing, scientific-based targets, non-wire/pipe solutions, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data, Integrated Distribution Plans (IDPs), etc. After reading the book, some readers will acknowledge how critical the utility of the future group is for a sustainable future and appreciate the challenges and immense resistance they face, while others will see the utility of the future, challenges, and mandates as fiction. This book will provide the reader with numerous challenges and opportunities, as well as aggressive, innovative, and non-traditional tools and ideas to enhance the grid, i.e. the grid purge, the 5W damage storm response, The Grid Avengers universal storm response, AirPod grid, smart cities, cyber police, air ghostbusters, and the success indicators to establish a well-run utility of the future group