Strategy & Planning

“If we’re going to broad brush the challenge facing the MACRUC Commissioners and the MACRUC region, we’re looking at a supply deficit while faced with unprecedented data center load growth.”

Conversations with Ohio Commissioner Dennis Deters on the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissions (MACRUC) and Wisconsin Chair Summer Strand on the Mid-America Regulatory Conference (MARC). With PUF Senior Advisor Paul Kjellander, former NARUC President.

“We understand that utilities will share the information they feel is necessary to obtain the results they’re looking for. But it’s not all the information. That creates an asymmetry in that binary relationship. Modeling can be useful in leveling the playing field.”

“Should utilities have to disclose to utility regulators when they’re making filings with a regulatory agency that they’ve used AI to develop the filing? Why should they do that or why not, and what should they be disclosing?”

“Our goal as regulators is not to pick winners or to chase every new idea. It’s to create the conditions where good ideas can succeed, risks are managed responsibly, and public interest remains at the center of change. In many ways, I see this conference as a kind of catalyst.”

With sessions on information gaps, AI dreams, provincial energy synergies, energy security, and competitive pathways to a resilient energy future, participants exchanged insights, challenged conventions, and bridged the divide for a resilient energy future.

“Guidehouse helps these offices make the transition from reactive grant managers to proactive policy leaders. We bring visibility into the broader policy landscape, and structural and program design experience.”

“There is no doubt that the investments we make today enable the reliability and resilience that Americans depend upon day in and day out.”

“We have proposed large load tariffs specifically designed to protect our other customers. We have these in motion in Minnesota and Colorado, with more coming across five of our eight states.”

“We must build major transmission to reach the renewable resources that are located far from cities. Xcel Energy is currently constructing the Colorado Power Pathway to unlock 5,500 megawatts of renewable resources.”