Strategy & Planning

Conversations with Southern Company’s Jonathan Porter, Alabama Power Senior Vice President for Customer Operations, and Eversource Energy’s Theresa Hopkins-Staten, Vice President for Corporate Citizenship and Equity, with consultant Larry Glover.

“Allowing a Chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Research to develop expertise and nurture relationships over the course of three years is critical to NARUC’s mission of providing top-notch education to its members.”

“I’ve always said take advantage of the resources that are readily available to you. That’s why you have an organization like MACRUC, a regional organization, but you have the national organization, NARUC.”

Conversations with Pennsylvania PUC Chair Gladys Brown Dutrieuille and Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Commissioner Sarah Freeman, also Chair of NARUC’s Subcommittee on Education and Research; both with PUF’s Paul Kjellander.

“It is our duty to level the playing field. The principles of equity and justice make it clear that all, particularly those lacking decades of experience and rapport, should have the opportunity to shine.”

“The depth of the canyon in PJM is projected to be around seventy gigawatts in 2035. Which is equal to the total peak load of New England. And the average hourly ramp rate is projected to be over ten gigawatts per hour.”

Residential electric bills as a percent of overall consumer expenditures, for all goods and services, varies significantly by state. A table shows bills as percent of overall consumer expenditures by state, while a graph plots data by year from 1997 to 2022.

“Our relationship with energy is the story of humanity. It’s about people’s lives, economic well-being, futures, and the health and well-being of our planet.”

“VEIR is building a new generation of high-capacity transmission lines that can go over long distances, giving five to ten times more power in the same right-of-way space used with a conventional conductor.”

“The cherry on top of those factors, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, is inflows of foreign direct investment in Africa yield the highest return, more than any other region.”