Generation & Markets

“APS views this as an ongoing evolution. Every event helps improve forecasting, response measurement, and operational readiness. The objective is to make our VPP as dependable and repeatable as any other grid management tool.”

“States are making announcements of investing multiple hundreds of millions of dollars to support nuclear development. Utilities are making announcements about reactors restarting that were shut down several years ago. This is historic.”

“NARUC recognized the need to establish separate rules for small generators that don’t require the same level of engineering analysis to ensure they will maintain grid safety and reliability.”

“Increased renewable energy does not mean an abrupt end to dispatchable resources. In fact, dispatchable hydro, batteries, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants may need to last longer and operate more reliably on marginal days than they ever have before.”

“Solutions leveraging gas capacity, battery storage, geothermal generation, and fuel cells are creating a bridge to long-term electricity grid solutions. This may be the start of a trend where modular demand needs are matched to distributed generation.”

“We can begin to look at advanced nuclear reactor options that are being developed today, such as smaller modular reactors that are about three hundred megawatts versus the thousand-megawatt reactors at Vogtle.”

“The Microgrid in a Box can be plugged in just about anywhere. You would need a step-up transformer for the utility connection. Normally, to try to serve a building with it, but also have it tied to distribution, you’d be between the utility distribution transformer and the building.”

“With the energy transition and accompanying rise of distributed energy resources like solar, wind, and renewables, the grid and the data architecture behind it is becoming more and more distributed. But distributed data is a difficult problem to solve.”

Conversation with EPRI’s SVP for Energy Delivery and Customer Solutions regarding a new EPRI report, “The Impact of Industrial Onshoring on Electric Sector Demand Growth.”

“We have transformed PSM into a global business, where we can tackle, within the constraints perhaps of certain fleets, the entire gas turbine engine. That’s what I’m proud of.”