A Day (Two Really) At the Mississippi PSC
Unique Conversations
Mississippi's Public Service Commission is housed near the state Capitol in the beautiful art deco E.T. Woolfolk state office building.
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.
Tomorrow's Power Strategies of Global Top 40 Utilities
Directional Headings
We describe the strategies being adopted by the Global Top 40 utilities and the positioning moves they are pursuing.
NASUCA Names New President
Unique Conversations
A conversation with Mark Schuling, Iowa Consumer Advocate and the new NASUCA President.
State Legislators Summit: Dominion Energy SVP William Murray
Policymaking at its Finest
“What’s great about NCSL, it’s a collegial, nonpartisan forum to share ideas, and that’s something we’ve always been supportive of.”
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 Summit: State Senators David Koehler and Eric Koch
Policymaking at its Finest
“There aren’t Republican electrons and Democrat electrons; they’re just electrons, and we have to just deal with this as colleagues in a bipartisan way.”
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.