PowerGridTalks: From the Bucket Trucks to the Boardrooms

Months of practice on nights and weekends, a whole week of waiting, and then a few minutes on the pole where tenths of a second decide everything. That's the International Lineman's Rodeo, and Duke Energy's journeyman climbing team knows it well. In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Willia...

We're bringing another early episode to YouTube! In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson interviews Ray Lawyer, Training Superintendent for a major utility company, to uncover what it really takes to build the next generation of linemen. With decades of field and leadership experie...

39 years on the line. Now he's writing what it costs. Darren Thomas is an Oklahoma lineman who learned to write songs from his grandma and his dad, and he's turning a career's worth of storms, brotherhood, and hard lessons into music for the trade. In this episode of Power Grid Talks, host Thomas Wi...

We're bringing another one of our first episodes to YouTube! In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson sits down with Travas Deal, CEO of Colorado Springs Utilities, to discuss his remarkable journey from the U.S. Marine Corps to leading one of the nation’s most respected public util...

47 years in the trade. A spot in the Lineman Hall of Fame, right alongside his father. And the man who wrote National Lineman Appreciation Day on a napkin. Bill Bosch has spent his career leaving a mark on line work, and he's not done yet. In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson si...

We're bringing another of our early episodes to YouTube! In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson talks with newly topped-out journeyman Robbie Emery about the dedication, discipline, and drive it takes to become a lineman. Robbie shares his journey from the early days of line schoo...

Storm restoration is big business and it isn't always pretty. Nicole Rhodes (CEO) and Dustin Toney (Director of Storm Operations) of Center Phase Energy join PowerGridTalks fresh off a brutal storm week in Oklahoma to talk about what really happens behind the scenes of line contracting. Host Thomas ...

We're bringing another of our early episodes to YouTube! In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson talks with veteran lineman Jason Novak about the lessons he’s learned from decades in the trade. From starting out having no idea what a lineman was, to becoming a respected foreman at ...

He spent 20 years running nuclear submarines for the U.S. Navy. Now he's president and CEO of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) and he's bringing submarine-grade leadership straight into the boardroom. In this episode of PowerGridTalks, host Thomas Williamson sits down with Buddy Hast...