The World’s Mineral Powers Seize Their Moment
Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?
The electric utility business in the USis undergoing fundamental changes, with new forms ofcompetition, new technologies and new demands to provide powerthat’s cleaner than ever before while maintainingreliability and keeping costs down. For utility executives,that means different ways of doing business.
On this episode of Columbia Energy Exchange, host BillLoveless sits down with Mary Powell, President and CEO ofGreen Mountain Power, who since assuming her role in 2008 hasbeen shifting the Vermont utility from simplyproviding electricity to offering a broader rangeof services, including saving energy. She joined the programfrom New York after spending time with studentsfrom the Center’s Women in Energy Program.
This interview was originally recorded on April 21, 2016.
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