The ScottMadden Energy Exchange
The energy industry is changing at a blistering pace. Leaders need more than headlines. They need clarity, context, and practical insight. The ScottMadden Energy Exchange brings you unfiltered conversations with ScottMadden’s experts, who have spent decades guiding energy companies through transformation. Each episode tackles the questions top-of-mind for energy stakeholders, exploring the forces reshaping our power and gas infrastructure. With experience serving hundreds of utilities, investor groups, and regulatory bodies, ScottMadden delivers perspective that is experience-based, not theoretical. Listeners gain actionable takeaways across the value chain for power and gas utilities. Whether you’re preparing for your next strategic decision or simply staying ahead of industry change, The ScottMadden Energy Exchange gives you the insight, depth, and confidence to navigate what’s coming next.
Episodes
Utilities are under increasing pressure from multiple directions. Load is growing again, driven by data centers, reindustrialization, and electrification. The system itself is becoming more complex, with distributed resources and new technologies. And at the same time, utilities are managing workforce constraints and an explosion of data from AMI systems and other sensors deployed in their infrastructure.
Against that backdrop, ther...
For regulated utilities, the rate case is the moment when strategy, capital investment, and regulatory expectations all come together. It’s the process through which utilities justify their investments, establish their authorized revenue, and ultimately secure the resources needed to build and maintain critical infrastructure.
In many ways, the rate case is where a utility’s strategy meets regulatory scrutiny. It’s...
Utilities are entering a new capital cycle. Across the industry, we’re seeing more than a trillion dollars of planned investment, driven by load growth, resilience needs, aging infrastructure, and the energy transition.
But this isn’t just about investing more. Utilities are being asked to deploy capital more deliberately and more effectively than ever before.
That creates a dual challenge:
- Are we investing in the righ...
Over the past decade, many utilities deployed advanced metering infrastructure, giving them new visibility into customer usage and grid operations. But technology and expectations have evolved quickly, and a new generation of capabilities is emerging.
Utilities are now beginning to explore what many are calling AMI 2.0, systems that go beyond basic meter data collection to support more advanced grid operations, deeper customer...
For years, utilities were planning around relatively stable demand growth. But suddenly, that’s changing. Data centers, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and industrial reshoring are driving a new wave of load growth that is larger, faster, and more concentrated than what most utilities have dealt with in decades.
And while these projects create major economic development opportunities, they also introduce signi...
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