Strategy & Planning

When you’re doing a public service, there’s nothing closer to the public than being a Commissioner, because you determine what the rates are going to be.

We need to be prepared to do technical hearings remotely, using video and teleconferencing equipment.

Conversations with three Commissioners, Staff, and two illustrious recently-retired regulators.

The utility workforce – their tasks complicated by exposure to the sickness and initially, shortage of protective supplies – is out there once again, for us.

How the coronavirus crisis has changed customer demand for electricity.

Top of mind: Business model evolution, DER integration, and climate change.

The lesson of this non-economic recession will be we didn’t need all that building space. The telecommuting work force uses less energy, is less carbon intense, and has less risk to liability.

When we reach a point that we can think of storage as ubiquitous – as much as we like, wherever we like it – the way we control and coordinate the balance of the electric power system changes dramatically with the distribution system now the dominant element.

The only way to drive clean energy is to require its adoption. Sometimes the way to have a good idea is to stop having a bad idea.

The trend toward a more decentralized, decarbonized, and democratized power system was well underway before the pandemic, and I expect that trend to continue, likely accelerate.