Real energy leadership rather than smoke and mirrors!

Real energy leadership rather than smoke and mirrors!?

Every day, we at CWT work to make the world a better place.?What astounds me is the lack of leadership in the energy industry when it comes to real innovation and improving lives for customers, reducing operating costs and increasing revenue.?Instead, what is being sold as “innovation” is, at best, smoke and mirrors to suggest there is innovation.?“We’re doing something.”

It is easier to do things the way they have always been done, even if those same things are called something else.?“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” What is being done now, will soon stop smelling sweet. We do understand that business is about competition of products and ideas, relationships and being able to do things more quickly, less expensively and better.?Though, when it comes to innovation, old ideas are rebranded as new solutions when there are not real solutions which will produce long-term fundamental and positive change.?

Electric utilities should be engaged in real innovation and pursuing new technology, but I have to say, the C-suites at utility companies seem to be more interested in their stock ticker and cannot be bothered to direct their teams to search for better ideas.

Take a look at the electric power industries. Most all seem to thinks by increasing and diversifying generation that will be the game changer, even if those strategies are not properly studied, and at great expense to customers.?More is better, right? Utilities also look at lower cost, low. Impact and low yielding software solutions which do very little, but any change makes it appear a company is doing something.?

Any of these changes only produce modest results, at best.?Here is why.?We can argue about progress in generation, and we will concede for the sake of argument that innovation in energy generation may be bringing energy well into the 21st?century.?Then why are we hitching up 21st?century innovation to an archaic, aging and very fragile early 20th?century energy management system.?Infrastructure is not just shiny and new wind turbines, real infrastructure MUST include how the wires enter a home or business.

If we aren’t considering the end to end of infrastructure, the ship will start to sink, and we are seeing ice bergs on the horizon.?Captain, you need to wake up and do some real work.

Everywhere I look there appear to be vast disconnects from a clear understanding of the holistic nature of energy from energy executives who should know their business. The customers and the utilities are paying the price. In Texas, the price was paid by preventable deaths and grids which were poorly managed and left less safe and more fragile today as seen by recent blackouts and those of two years ago.

Many think they are leaders but are instead mangers and maintainers.?If someone wants to lead, there is ample need for real leadership and if one is too risk averse to step out on the ledge and truly lead, perhaps there others more capable and bolder.

Our team has been successful creating lifesaving and empowering technology everyone uses today. You would think that with these large successes, it would be easier to talk with executives about industry level positive changes, however it isn’t.

It is business, rejection and comes with the territory.?There is a “no” and we move on to the next.?While many executives are rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship, there are opportunities to be saved and to save the ship too.?Your customers will be far better off, your profits will improve, and the stock ticker will be glowing green.?Leaders must be bold, and this is the time for bold decisions and bold actions not a time for maintaining old ideas.

Getting utility companies, commissioners and regulators, etc. to do their jobs strengthening an industry and protecting the public is near impossible due to bureaucratic nonsense. CWT’s Advanced Infrastructure Technology (AIS) would make the grid quantitatively better for customers and utilities.?

We have reached out Texas Legislators, the PUC of Texas and many other states through multiple emails and phone calls without them even responding at all.?They dodge calls, ignore inquiries, and go about their day.?They are not contributing to the greater good, but they are the first to slam their fists on the table proclaiming, “something will be done!”?Shame on them and in the meantime, costs are rising due to their inaction.?

AIS would help lower costs and add benefits to the customer and for what the utilities need now, and they needed this technology two years ago.??

Pick up the phone, AIS can help your company, your customers, and your investors as well as those who voted for you.?Pick up the phone if you really want to be an innovator and game changer.?

Stephen Williams, CEO ?

CoolWaters Technology, LLC Houston | TX | 77433

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