Strategy & Planning

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration forecasts the year and beyond, hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“We want to continue to have enough baseload power to reliably serve our members. That would be multiple types of resources, whether it’s nuclear, coal, or natural gas.”

“Where in critical infrastructure do I think the next industry difference can be made? Particularly around reliance, safety, impact on community. I concluded digitization is the next frontier.”

“Critical balancing capability is largely provided by highly flexible natural gas generation. We must invest to maintain (and improve) the natural gas system’s ability to meet the balancing needed to assure reliability.”

At the Veterans in Energy’s Leadership Forum, Florida Power & Light CEO Eric Silagy, Georgia Power CEO Chris Womack, MidAmerican Energy CEO Kelcey Brown on resilience, innovation, decarbonization, and the opportunities for veterans.

At CERAWeek, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe, Portland General Electric CEO Maria Pope, Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro, Constellation CEO Joe Dominguez, AVANGRID CEO Dennis Arriola, AEP CEO Nick Akins, PJM CEO Manu Asthana, Exelon COO Calvin Butler, Maryland PSC Chair Jason Stanek, NYSERDA’s Georges Sassine, ABB’s Brandon Spencer, AES’s Chris Shelton on electrification, offshore wind, transmission development, nuclear’s role, etc.

“Economic development is a huge factor in fiber deployment. Our cooperative is serving one Microsoft data center and are in the process of serving three more. You don’t attract those kinds of loads without a sound, highly reliable fiber network.”

“We are seeing lead times of up to a year for critical materials such as transformers, meter sockets, wire, and some hardware, with some lead times on other non-critical material reaching 70 weeks. This requires our salespeople to engage with customers in planning ahead and ordering early.”

“Direct Pay could be transformational for electric cooperatives and give them the opportunity to make significant investments in these emerging technologies.”

Russia’s brutal aggression has reversed German attitudes and policy perhaps. Germans are increasingly realizing that they must balance the transformation to net zero with the other imperatives of energy systems, those being reliability, affordability, and national security.