InnovationForce Connects Energy Professionals to Solve Over 200 Verified Utility Challenges With Launch of InnovationWorks Hangar
Summary
This substantial investment reflects the critical need for innovation and infrastructure upgrades to ensure the reliability and resilience of the electrical grid as utilities transition to new and emerging technologies. We wanted to map a wide range of Test Flights to these grid modernization solutions and create a space where utility professionals can share valuable R&D learnings from the billions of dollars being invested in upgrading the infrastructure over the next decade." The Hangar offers a diverse repository of over 200 verified utility challenges culled from authoritative public documents like R&D plans, general rate cases, wildfire mitigation strategies, and infrastructure reports. We are always looking for new ways to collaborate and scale transformation more rapidly," said Chris Gilbert, Director - Research & Development and Innovation Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation. "Our decades of research shows that creating a diverse marketplace of ideas where peers can be empowered to collaborate reduces the risk of innovation, which is critical in highly regulated industries like energy."