Reimagining Purpose
Investing in R&D and Innovation
In a post-COVID-19 world, growth in current R&D and innovation spend is a necessary condition for market recovery.
Strategy & Planning
Managing Utility Reliability and Service Through a Public Crisis
Burns & McDonnell
Companies say their most valuable resource is their people, but the pandemic has complicated utilities’ abilities to access that resource.
Pandemic Generates New Challenges, New Solutions
Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell discuss opportunities to help electric utilities provide the safe and reliable power customers expect.
Utility Transformation in the Age of Resiliency, Business Continuity, Gray Rhinos
Decentralization, Digitization, and Decarbonization
The future belongs to full-service providers that orchestrate an ever more complex, clean, distributed, mobile, and intelligent energy system.
Idaho PUC: Don Howell
Former Chief Deputy Attorney General
The General Counsel has to feel comfortable in that they have to tell the Commissioner sometimes bad news or what the law is in certain areas.
Idaho PUC: Marsha Smith
Former Commissioner and NARUC President
Staff is critically important, because Commissioners have to decide on a number of issues spanning all of the utilities, and Staff can be specialized and concentrate.
Idaho PUC: Diane Hanian and Adam Rush
Commission Secretary, Public Information Officer
The teleconference system’s a priority that’s got a lot of potential, especially with our audio video system that they built into our main hearing room.
Idaho PUC: Maria Barratt-Riley
Executive Director
With the Teams and the cloud functioning, people if they wanted to would be able to use other devices. They didn’t have to take home their desktops, but most did.
Idaho PUC: Terri Carlock
Administrator – Electricity and Economics
Being the Administrator of the Utilities Division, they allow me to switch hats and separate these duties. Once I start answering questions for the Commissioners, I no longer am advocating for Staff.
Idaho PUC: Kristine Raper
Commissioner
By statute, the attorneys for the PUC are assigned to us through the Attorney General’s Office. The intent was for them to have autonomy to tell us you’re going down the wrong road.