Strategy & Planning

Conversations with the chair, commissioners and more.

This issue features 2021's Fortnightly Under Forty and the SCC of Virginia.

The 2021 Roundtable discussed effective strategies to increase engagement and alliances.

“Quite simply, employees of diverse businesses reinvest and spend their wages to purchase goods and services where they live.”

“We plan to deactivate approximately four gigs of legacy gas. That’s along with the remainder of our coal plants. It’s in our plan to not build any large-scale generation that isn’t hydrogen capable.”

Change can only come when we stand together as one.

“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”

“Energy efficiency should be the starting point in the conversation about an equitable clean energy transition.”

“If you’re going to operate within a single market like Texas, with very limited access to the Eastern Interconnect, then you really have to think about what those reserve margins should be.”

“Addressing global climate change and other vexing problems facing the world requires long-term thinking and a stable and consistent public policy to attract investments needed to finance actions to meet net-zero targets.”