Strategy & Planning

“We have a new set of customers who are struggling with affordability issues, and that is something we’re noticing here. That’s a big issue we’re dealing with, and when large new loads are tied to that equation, affordability becomes even more complex.”

“There is no realistic way to interconnect larger numbers of generators of any fuel type or move that power around the Northwest without Bonneville Power Administration’s partnership, system growth, and investments. There’s no way to accommodate the growth without that partnership.”

“New Mexico still has zero-carbon and renewable portfolio standards. Utilities and regulators need to abide by those laws regardless of uncertainty occurring beyond New Mexico.”

“We’re eliminating the mandates. You’re seeing that from the administration in Washington, D.C., as well. We started down this path in 2023 with our changes in our Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff, REST rules. We don’t need to subsidize it either.”

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“A significant milestone in Powell’s journey was the development of RAMP, a tool that provides next-day intelligence on outages. By integrating AI, RAMP anticipates common queries and delivers insights that were previously labor-intensive to obtain.”

“While the nation has been focused on an energy crisis triggered by unprecedented new additional load being added to the electrical grid from data center demand, scarcely anyone is focused on the related competition for water.”

“While state procurement could be a useful price hedge for customers, it’s an open question how much it helps reliability if PJM is still in the role of meeting the reserve margin through its capacity auction.”

“Our new resource stack includes power purchase agreements, solar projects of our own, and what I believe is the largest distributed battery array in the country. We have deployed batteries across nine substations, ranging from 8 MW up to 33 MW.”

“General Nakasone, Chris Wray, and Rob Lee are all on the record. Tom Fanning has been at the vanguard within the utility sector. Bill Fehrman was also on record often. That really was the brain trust.”