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A plethora of energy and utility experts convened on the big issues at the 2025 NARUC Summer Policy Summit, with a bullseye on demand from AI and data centers, and much more. Included are excerpts from sessions on Unpacking Challenges Facing RTOs and Designing Tariffs for Large Load Customers, as well as a conversation with NARUC President and Georgia Commissioner Tricia Pridemore and Exelon CEO Calvin Butler.

PUF is proud to announce that it will give this year’s Fortnightly Top Innovator Awards to 24 innovators or teams of innovators at 20 different utilities.

The United States Energy Association held an Advanced Energy and Technology Showcase in Washington, D.C.

MARC, held June 22-25 in Indianapolis, opened with remarks from Indiana URC Chair Jim Huston and Commissioner Sarah Freeman.

The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates gathered for its mid-year meeting in Columbus, where the organization was founded in 1979.

This year’s conference was held in Washington, D.C. One theme throughout the three days of proceedings was the surge in demand for electric power and strategies to address it.

Senior representatives from more than forty U.S. electric utilities attended PUF's third annual Edison Congress with co-host the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies.

Topic numbers one, two, and three were advancing nuclear power’s resurgence at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual Nuclear Energy Policy Forum. The conference program was jam packed with the leading thought leaders and decision makers on this critical subject.

PUF’s annual Fortnightly Top Innovators uniquely recognizes individual innovators and teams of innovators at electric, natural gas, and water utilities.

Grid leaders from around the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. in May. Just on the first day of the week-long conference, speakers represented Australia, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Finland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Zambia. Plus the United States.