• Holy Lights

    Is this the sort of song you’d want your utility industry muse to sing to your utility’s customers?
    Dec. 20, 2017

    In holiday lights, or in your bright rooms,
    or skylines shining at twilight like jewels,
    you’ll find my work, unseen behind the scene:
    I am your electric utility.

    If you see a skyline's night-time beauty
    not thinking what made it glisten, truly,
    resources and people that gave support
    demand you take us for granted no more.

    I’m thinking of people who came before
    like Edison, Westinghouse, or Tesla
    (Nikola, plus a touch of Musk for sure)
    and other's dreams of new infrastructure.

    To interweave electric vehicles
    synchronizations ease our squeamishness
    since reliable grid innovation
    requires extensive integration.

    If you understood reactive power
    you'd see, past marketing miasmas, that
    utilities aren't duplicitous
    about electrical inventiveness.

    Microgrids are finer, un-islanded.
    Islanded microgrids have minuses
    pluses outweigh when bi-directional
    connectedness makes economic sense.

    Let’s dream new dreams for our infrastructure!
    Let’s wisely channel power from nature,
    for utilities and shared resources
    demand we’re taken for granted no more.

    About the Author

    Peter Arvan Manos

    Utility Industry Analyst

    Peter Manos is a utility industry analyst and former Senior Editor at T&D World. He started his career as an engineer at Con Edison in New York.  For more than 30 years, Peter has been writing about the value of technologies for utilities and the communities they serve. Based in Atlanta, Peter is currently Content Writer at SEDC.

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