Strategy & Planning

“Last year, in partnership with EPRI, we conducted our first sustainability materiality assessment, which is a best practice in the ESG space.”

“We are at an inflection point — we have a clean energy strategy on the table right now, and if regulators are supportive, by 2030 our generating portfolio will flip to 52% renewable energy.”

ESG conversations with executives at American Electric Power, Arizona Public Service, Evergy, Northwestern Energy, PPL Corporation, WEC Energy Group, and Xcel Energy. Guidehouse’s Dan Hahn and Michelle Fay sat in on some of these.

In what could be aptly called the Environmental, Social and Governance Era, utilities are being scored for their ethical performance, quite rigorously, quite comprehensively, by highly influential organizations. The issue is so big that we devoted a special issue of PUF to it.

A conversation with retired EEI executive vice president David Owens about FRI’s distinguished service award.

“A utility may be dealing with a manufactured gas plant or other facility that closed down in the early 1900s, yet the policies may not have been issued until the 1940s.”

Memorable moments from the September 29 webinar on Steve Mitnick’s book “Women Leading Utilities, the Pioneers and Path to Today and Tomorrow,” including what was said there by CPS Energy CEO Paula Gold-Williams, Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith, and American Municipal Power CEO Jolene Thompson.

Electrification, Equity, and Cost-Effectiveness: This panel took a thorough look at electrification and its future in the clean energy movement.

Jurisdiction and State Clean Energy Goals: This panel explored jurisdictional issues.

The utilities industry holds three of its most important conferences of the year over a seven-day period.