Strategy & Planning

As commissioners and industry leaders gather at NARUC, I hope the conversations extend beyond individual jurisdictions and focus on what we can learn from one another.

“Their nexus is that both metals enter drinking water primarily through plumbing. Copper can enter water through corroding pipes and fixtures but carries less risk in plumbing in most homes and therefore the biggest change to the 2024 LCRI is focused upon lead pipe removal.”

“Agentic AI introduces autonomous workflow execution. An AI agent can evaluate complex multi-step processes, connect across enterprise databases, and complete operational workflows automatically under pre-established human oversight rules.”

“A good catch is defined as a hazard detected before it becomes an ignition, a serious public safety event, a catastrophic failure, or a correctly identified trouble location.”

“The stakes are measurable: Dragos’s 2026 findings put the industry-wide average dwell time for ransomware in OT environments at 42 days, which leaves ample time for an adversary to explore the paths a network permits.”

“Given that many of the problems facing the country’s system are common throughout the electric power sector, examining Puerto Rico’s grid modernization journey yields insights relevant to mainland utilities as well as those serving islands.”

“Members of the Committee on Electricity welcome the opportunity to speak with elected officials to help them make good decisions as they’re looking at new policy. We have an opportunity with this renewed attention to work with elected officials to make things better for customers.”

“Three central topics – reliability, affordability, and safety – intersect. They aren’t competing interests. That is what we’re focusing on at the upcoming meeting.”

“People are feeling the impact of higher electric bills today, but water infrastructure costs are also rising. In the coming years, those costs could translate into significant increases in water bills.”

Former NARUC President and PUF Senior Advisor Paul Kjellander speaks with Committee on Water Chair Michael Bange of New Jersey, Committee on Gas Chair Steve DeFrank of Pennsylvania, and Committee on Electricity Chair John Hammond of Idaho.