Strategy & Planning

This session was co-sponsored by the Committee on Electricity and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and co-moderated by Commissioners Andrew French, Kansas CC, and Jehmal Hudson, Virginia SCC.

This joint meeting combined the Committee on Electricity with the Committee on Critical Infrastructure to examine how advanced technologies for infrastructure resiliency and vegetation management can help utilities face natural disasters from wildfires to winter storms.

This session focused on FERC Order 2222 and state commission issues such as interconnection requirements, coordination, and retail DER programs.

Some of what we heard at February’s conference.

“We have to increase efficiency and reduce price. Energy storage has come so far, particularly ion batteries, but we are students at CPS Energy. We’re students of innovation.”

Recent decades have seen a growing revolution in applications of DC in power systems, both for moving bulk power, but also to play a growing list of other roles. This is the first of four articles on the revolution in HVDC technology.

A conversation with the new Chair of the National Association of Water Companies.

Another in our series of interviews of utility CEOs on how decarbonization helps meet customer goals, in collaboration with Guidehouse.

A conversation with American Association of Blacks in Energy new interim CEO, Ralph Cleveland.

Shining a bright light on the first hidden figure: EEI’s Lawrence Jones and PUF’s Steve Mitnick discuss the man who made electric lighting affordable