Clean Energy Summit: Pathway to Decarbonization
D.C. PSC
Electrification, Equity, and Cost-Effectiveness: This panel took a thorough look at electrification and its future in the clean energy movement.
Strategy & Planning
Clean Energy Summit: Who's the Boss?
D.C. PSC
Jurisdiction and State Clean Energy Goals: This panel explored jurisdictional issues.
AEIC, NARUC, EEI Back-to-Back-to-Back
Eight Days in November
The utilities industry holds three of its most important conferences of the year over a seven-day period.
PG&E's Landmark RFI to Underground Ten Thousand Miles of Lines
Pacific Gas & Electric
PG&E met with firms that responded to its Request for Information, each of which presented their approaches to accomplish this unprecedented project. Herein are key excerpts of the RFI.
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies' Top 10 Awards 2021
AEIC
We celebrate this year’s AEIC Top 10 Awards for operational innovation: Commonwealth Edison for advanced distribution protection and for an arc flash simulator, Con Edison for its safety leadership system, Duke Energy for its customer delivery builder concierge, Eversource for its Give Me a Moment tools to address momentary outages, Florida Power & Light for tackling human error in switching, New York Power Authority for private LTE network applications, PPL for vegetation management risk modeling, Tampa Electric for its BlockEnergy distributed energy system, and Tennessee Valley Authority for its safety blitz process.
Innovation Imperative
Top Innovators and More
A culture of innovation is an imperative for the utilities industry, if only because the challenges we face, from the threat of climate change to the demand for customer centricity to the complexity of today’s grid to the aging of the legacy infrastructure, and so on and so on, require continuous learning, invention, and integration.
Old Insurance Policies Could Be Worth Their Weight in Gold, Part 1
Environmental Contamination
State environmental agencies continue to discover long-hidden contamination around the country. Contamination may turn up after dredging activities, ground water sampling or new building projects on redeveloped sites. When these discoveries are made, those agencies begin the process of finding the source of pollution, which may require historical research on old uses of the surrounding properties.
In-Person at NARUC Summer Policy Summit
NARUC
What the PUF team saw and heard in Denver.
What Will You Do This Fall?
Season of Promise
In-person conferences vs. hybrids vs. virtual only: The pandemic has taught us that each has its pitfalls.
Consumer Protection: State Advocates Speak
NASUCA 2021
A roundtable discussion with NASUCA State Advocates focused on efforts to help customers manage and pay off arrearages now that disconnection moratoria are expiring across the country.