August 27, 2025
[caption id="attachment_13701" align="alignright" width="242"] Travis Whalen[/caption] History and folklore abound with stories of oracles and prognosticators that shaped the course of civilization. The cryptic words of the Oracle at Delphi sent Greek kings on to both legendary conquests and ignominious defeats, and one 16th century monk has parts of the Catholic world expecting the new Pope to be the very last. Today’s prophets in the utility sector set their sights a bit lower, content to predict how quickly customers might adopt electric vehicles and when annual peaks might shift from summer to winter. But have the standards and expectations for the modern prophets changed that much with the times? In…
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