Strategy & Planning

Competition Hard

Full of Promise, And Then ...

The benefits of retail competition for residential customers might not be all that much.

Securing Our Grid

Prepare, Protect, Respond, Restore

Just like dealing with natural attacks on the grid — hurricanes, storms and floods, and just like dealing with man-made attacks on the grid — vandalism, terrorism and even acts of war — we need to prepare, protect and respond to restore the grid's essential service as rapidly as possible.

Innovation at Scale

Lessons from Europe

The approaches taken by European utilities are portable to other regions and can be instructive to North American utilities considering alternative paths for advancing their innovation models.

State Legislators Summit: TVA CEO Jeff Lyash

Policymaking at its Finest

“Over the next 20 or 30 years, how we plan and build the electricity system in this country is going to be critical to the economy and the environment, and policymakers here today are a critical part of this.”

State Legislators' Energy Policy Summit in Nashville

Policymaking at its Finest

It was a large gathering, the 2019 Energy Policy Summit in Nashville, and part of the National Conference of State Legislators Legislative Summit. Energy policy is now chic as evidenced by the crowd gathered to listen in to speakers from Google, Amazon, Walmart, and REBA - the cool sounding acronym of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance.