Strategy & Planning

PUF’s September issue features this philosophical debate.

In a 1930 edition of PUF, Senator James Couzens defended his Senate Bill 3869, which would regulate the interstate transmission of power, and stated emphatically that it would not interfere with state commission regulation. Harold E. West, Chairman, Public Service Commission of Maryland, offered a rebuttal.

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies member Southern Company recently shared some of the strategic thinking and creative solutions their teams have developed to navigate through the myriad challenges currently faced by our industry.

“We’re targeting carbon reduction and that could incent deals. The other side of that is, it seems the bar continues to get raised in how deals will be evaluated and the scrutiny they’ll be under given ESG goals.”

“Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi shared that Ukraine had plans to interconnect with the rest of the European grid – a two-year plan – and did it in maybe three weeks or so.”

“Leadership is going the extra mile, taking the time to understand concerns and what’s important to another state.”

A roundtable on the sidelines with FTI Consulting's Rodolfo Araujo, Christine DiBartolo, Ken Ditzel, and Chris LeWand.

“It is clear that the renewable growth that we need requires a transmission system that’s more resilient and can grow faster.”

“We feel especially responsible to make sure that we bring all of the ecosystem together to express what’s going to be required from our investment perspective and how our state and communities will need to also support that from an economic development perspective.”

“In some cases, utilities opt to enter into build-transfer agreements. They’ll tender, we’ll build them, and then transfer it to them at a pre-agreed price, so it moves to the rate base. For utilities that have coal plants, they can substitute them with wind or solar.”