Strategy & Planning

“Our study, this path to net zero, estimates that by 2045, there will be a demand for six and a half million metric tons of hydrogen in California. Almost all of that, eighty percent, is going to be used to enhance electric grid reliability.”

Conversations with San Diego Gas & Electric CEO Caroline Winn and Xcel Energy CEO Bob Frenzel, with PUF’s Steve Mitnick and Guidehouse’s Chris Rogers.

A proposed transmission project would cost a billion dollars if it is built. The odds are long indeed.

“The Association of Edison Illuminating Companies’ Distributed Energy Resource Subcommittee is a collective industry organization of utility-only members discussing the integration of grid-edge technologies.”

“The DCAT tool gives a better way of looking at extreme events, so designers and system operators can plan systems that’ll be more robust against a tougher set of threats.”

U of Missouri’s Financial Research Institute held a two-part webinar on Optimal Transmission Planning and Development for 2022 and Beyond.

“The SEC believes climate-change risk information is important to investors, who are increasingly relying on disclosures companies have been voluntarily publishing through corporate sustainability reports, or through EEI and AGA ESG reporting templates.”

“More climate change is projected, and the industry needs to plan for it. Our work helps understand the risks driven by climate change and other factors, such as evolving local economies and development trends, technologies, and markets.”

“Last November, my fellow Commissioners and I revised the rules to provide public access to renewable contract terms 18 months after the CPUC approves investor-owned-utility contracts (or 18 months after execution of contracts by other providers whose contracts do not require CPUC approval).”

“A lot of people said, if we are to have a decarbonized energy system, then the gas system cannot be a part of it. This report shows we can, and it shows it in a reasonable way.”