Environmental

Weathering the Storm

CAMPUT

Extreme weather events can devastate utility infrastructure. This panel on Weathering the Storm (Resilience and Extreme Weather) discussed resilient, cost-effective strategies for safeguarding energy systems while exploring critical questions on responsibility and costs in the face of extreme weather.

Ontario Power: Proactive Assessment of Climate Change Challenges

Top Innovators

“We have identified which system structures and components could be impacted by climate change. We’ve gone a step further to assess them against the design margins to understand what we need to focus on and plan for in the next 30 or more years. The product is a first-of-a-kind assessment that could be used for any nuclear power plant.”

Winter Summit: EPA Rules and Reliability

NARUC

“If you’re looking at 30-year investments and have to decide now whether to invest in them, even 10 years from now, we can’t predict what reliability needs are going to be to trigger a reliability relief valve. If I heard you correctly, you’re fundamentally rethinking that approach.”

Where ERCOT Stands Now

ICF

“There was a lot of focus post-Storm Uri on generation performance, and ERCOT made some improvements through some higher technical standards, although we must see how it performs. But no one has addressed the demand side at all. That’s one of the problems.”

Empire State Leading

Enacting CLCPA Equitably

Enacting the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act equitably: “Integrating equitable outcomes as a central driver of our efforts was a conscious choice borne from a recognition that many past actions to develop energy infrastructure in use today didn’t prioritize equity and the resulting environmental impacts on communities.”

EPRI is Climate READi

NYPA

“Climate READi could inform generation siting decisions that the state might make. It also will inform the kind of upgrades and improvements that are going to be required of generating facilities if you take into consideration the long-term effects of climate change.”

Alliance to Save Energy Launches Energy 2040

Alliance to Save Energy

“If we are going to do this, it must be equitable, ensure reliability and resiliency, and it has to be affordable. The point of our work is to figure out what that means, decide what kinds of policies to get there, and how long is this going to take.”

How Much Hydrogen Helps

Southern Co., GTI Energy

“Green hydrogen is exciting because it gets to that storage issue in terms of potentially having ability to store excess renewable energy from sources like solar and wind for electricity.”