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Tom Janes

Tom Janes
January 16, 2025
Articles By Tom Janes
What the NERC Wildfire Report Means for Your SRP Documentation Strategy
Electric utilities have spent the last several years building out System Resiliency Plans, investing billions in grid hardening, vegetation management, and infrastructure modernization. The regulatory...
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Why AI Without Orchestration Is Just Expensive Guessing
A recent Utility Dive piece by Sean Burri, an infrastructure engineer at Dominion Energy, makes a point that deserves more attention than it is getting: deploying AI does not automatically improve uti...
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Byproduct Documentation: Turning Vegetation Management into Defensible Rate Case Evidence
Electric utilities invest enormous resources building System Resiliency Plans that promise regulators a safer, more defensible grid. But an SRP is only as credible as the operational data behind it, a...
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The Vegetation Management Execution Gap: Translating Risk Data into Field Action
Vegetation management is the single largest operating expense most electric utilities carry. The industry spends between $6 billion and $8 billion a year managing right-of-ways, and for many utilities...
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Financial & Technical Realities of SRP Execution: Moving from Plan to Plant-in-Service
As utilities face mounting pressure to harden the grid, developing a comprehensive System Resiliency Plan (SRP) requires immense cross-functional coordination. In my previous article,The Mechanics of ...
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Business Process Automation for a Defensible System Resiliency Plan
In the world of utility capital planning, automation has evolved from a simple back-office efficiency tool into a cornerstone of successful rate case strategies. As leading Investor-Owned Utilities (I...
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