Events

Accenture’s three day conference in Los Angeles included engaging workshops, presentations, and discussions.

NARUC’s Summer Summit took place in Austin this year and PUF held its always popular annual Soapbox luncheon during the conference. Thirteen speakers hopped on their soapboxes to say or sing whatever was on their minds.

The NARUC Summer Policy Summit was held in Austin amid much camaraderie and heat in Texas. While the Monday opening General Session looked back at the Northeast Blackout of 2003, ERCOT kept the electric grid humming along in a heat wave that kept temperatures above one hundred all week.

PUF presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.

The density of utility regulatory and policy folks in the more than adequately air-conditioned JW Marriott Austin, gathered there for NARUC’s Summer Summit, even after adjusting for the three-digit temperatures outside the conference’s hotel, hit record highs.

The United States Energy Association hosted its 2023 Annual Membership Meeting and Public Policy Forum at the Press Club, convening members and stakeholders to preview the future of the energy industry.

In the stunning atrium ballroom of the National Portrait Gallery, the Keystone Policy Center gave its Annual Leadership Awards to FERC Chair Willie Phillips; Tri-State G&T CEO Duane Highley; Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon; ClearPath Founder Jay Faison; and CBS Evening News Anchor Norah O’Donnell.

Jam-packed with sessions on the continuing mission and contemporary challenges of the electric industry, get a glimpse of the proceedings at Edison Electric Institute's Annual Convention in Austin.

“There’s no question that working with the government at the highest levels gets results. The leadership from the White House, what we’ve seen from DOE, has changed how the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and others show up. We’re working with the FAA as well, and with DOE’s National Labs on important technologies.”

“Making sure that the IIJA and the IRA get executed well, there’s still a lot of devils in the details that need to be worked through with the agencies, like Treasury. Remaining engaged on those from a policy perspective, like looking at how that then leads to implementation, permitting, and siting reform is a big part.”