Commission Watch

Ten Commissioners Talk Transition

Decarbonization

In discussions with ten Commissioners from every end of the country, PUF’s Paul Kjellander asked what’s driving the energy transition in their states, their state’s policies, barriers for the transition to overcome, and risks, also the role of consumer-owned energy. Sponsored by Itron.

Importance of FERC Order 881

POWER Engineers

The energy and utilities industry is scrambling for any answer to overcome the transmission line capacity issue brought on by the transition to cleaner energy. In short, more renewables sited in far-away locations means more transmissions lines are needed. Full stop.

Kjellander Calls: Sarah Freeman

Indiana URC

“Allowing a Chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Research to develop expertise and nurture relationships over the course of three years is critical to NARUC’s mission of providing top-notch education to its members.”

Kjellander Calls: Gladys Brown Dutrieuille

Pennsylvania PUC

“I’ve always said take advantage of the resources that are readily available to you. That’s why you have an organization like MACRUC, a regional organization, but you have the national organization, NARUC.”

ICC Chair Steps Down

Illinois Commerce Commission

“If I had one wish, we would have more interregional transmission planning and be addressing the seams issue. That is a need and can be the solution for the number of renewables that need to come online across our country, particularly to address reliability issues and extreme weather events.”

NARUC's Next Leader Named

NARUC

“The one issue bringing all western Commissioners together is being asked to engage on how to design markets in the west. There are two organizations proposing competing day-ahead markets.”

New York PSC: Kevin Wisely

Director

“The Office of Resilience and Emergency Preparedness team is working with utilities now on their forward-looking climate vulnerability studies that they’re going to be preparing and submitting to the Commission, and the subsequent risk-mitigation plans.”

New York PSC: Marco Padula

Director

“We had a goal of 3 GW of energy storage by 2025, but in early 2022 the Governor requested a plan to expand it to 6 GW. We worked for close to a year on developing a roadmap to getting to 6 GW of storage by 2030.”