Events

“This month’s column discusses the importance of three critical resources that will help enable the clean energy vision EEI’s member companies share, adapt how we harness our shared global ecosystems, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.”

Excerpts of remarks from the Institute for Electric Innovation’s Powering the People annual conference.

Resilience conversations with PSEG CFO Dan Cregg, Duke Energy CFO Brian Savoy, and Exelon CFO Jeanne Jones.

“Utilities, reliability entities, researchers, and regulators are focused on exploring advanced resource adequacy frameworks that leverage multiple metrics to evaluate the ability of power systems to minimize various outage events while balancing costs. Panelists are going to discuss the motivation behind a multi-metric analysis.”

“For projects that use these newer technologies that might have longer-term benefits with shorter-term costs or that build their value from preventing high-cost catastrophes from occurring like wildfires or increasing global temperatures, how can those costs be properly assessed?”

“Talk about the gas-electric harmonization challenges. We’re going to start a task force. We’ll be asking for RTOs to be involved, hopefully NERC will support our efforts with tactical assistance.”

NARUC held its Annual Meeting and Education Conference in California inNovember, closing out three years of the theme, “Connecting the Dots, Innovative/Disruptive Technology and Regulation.” NARUC President Michael Caron passed the torch on to North Dakota Commissioner Julie Fedorchak, who as NARUC’s new President will make history with the first all-female leadership of the Association, with Georgia’s Tricia Pridemore as First Vice President and Washington’s Ann Rendahl as Second Vice President.

The 2023 Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Latin America, sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society, focused on the theme of disaster recovery and network transformation in times of climate change. Puerto Rico’s unique experience with disaster preparedness and recovery in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria was a notable topic of discussion for the convening engineering and climate change experts.

NARUC held its Annual Meeting and Education Conference in November, closing out its three years of the theme “Connecting the Dots, Innovative/Disruptive Technology and Regulation.”

Innovators and superstars of the energy and utilities industry attended Fortnightly Top Innovators 2023 at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. to learn, trade ideas, and network.