Strategy & Planning

“An interesting investment we’ve made on a sizable part of our grid in Florida, and about half of it in the Carolinas, is called smart, self-healing technology. It functions similar to a GPS system or Waze on your phone, rerouting power to avoid the areas of congestion and getting customers the quickest route to get the lights back on.”

“One of the most vital resources in New Jersey in the energy space, and that is our nuclear units. Those units are dispatchable, carbon-free generators that produce close to forty percent of the energy that New Jersey uses.”

Resilience conversations with PSEG CFO Dan Cregg, Duke Energy CFO Brian Savoy, and Exelon CFO Jeanne Jones.

“Utilities, reliability entities, researchers, and regulators are focused on exploring advanced resource adequacy frameworks that leverage multiple metrics to evaluate the ability of power systems to minimize various outage events while balancing costs. Panelists are going to discuss the motivation behind a multi-metric analysis.”

“For projects that use these newer technologies that might have longer-term benefits with shorter-term costs or that build their value from preventing high-cost catastrophes from occurring like wildfires or increasing global temperatures, how can those costs be properly assessed?”

“Talk about the gas-electric harmonization challenges. We’re going to start a task force. We’ll be asking for RTOs to be involved, hopefully NERC will support our efforts with tactical assistance.”

As we contemplate how we, in the fashion of Odysseus, shall confront the various Scylla and Charybdis of the new year, it is good to remember the strengths of our ship at sea.

“EPAC’s philosophy is that the industry can and must work together to proactively and voluntarily advance its own standards, rather than waiting for mandates to be imposed.”

“The main thing we want folks to know is that there are practical pathways, and they can look at this within their area of interest and start to understand how some of these solutions might fit for them.”

“ISO New England is the regional planner, and we work closely. They’ve identified in 2050 that they expect the winter peak in New England to double. What that means for VELCO and many other transmission owners in New England is line upgrades.”