T&D Grid

“We put effort into the bills, making sure all concerns the legislators had were addressed. We didn’t cross the finish line. We’re looking at what we can do without legislation, what’s under our power. We can ask the utilities to develop a wildfire protection plan.”

“Through EEI and the CEO task force, we’re talking to Congress and the Department of Energy and asking for options that don’t require us to serve as insurers of last resort for all damage associated with wildfire. Now, we are the insurers of a last resort and that’s untenable.”

Conversations with Puget Sound Energy CEO Mary Kipp, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Chair Leo Asuncion, Pacific Power President Ryan Flynn, Rocky Mountain Power President Dick Garlish, with paintings by PUF’s Paul Kjellander.

The regional power grids are changing rapidly and facing unprecedented challenges. One day in May illustrates interesting dynamics in three regions, those of the California ISO, PJM in the mid-Atlantic, and ERCOT in Texas.

FERC Order 881 was the subject of discussion at a recent IEEE Power & Energy Society T&D Conference, which was attended by POWER Engineers’ Lisa Deppa. She explains here the latest on Order 881 and why it is important to the decarbonization journey.

By increasing the reach of these programs, utilities get greater insight into customer behavior and the ability to tackle distribution-level issues more effectively.

How much is enough? That’s so often the central question for those considering investments in our national defense. Along with secondary questions of nearly equal importance, such as, should we invest in this particular defense program? Or that one instead?

“Here, the focus is on the high-voltage transmission infrastructure of one hundred thirty-two kilovolts and above, from an unfortunately overlooked perspective, that of the customers and ratepayers who will pay the bill.”

“We have a pragmatic and prudent approach to both IT and OT data integration. The utilization of OT data is a critical path for utilities to address the energy transition and build resilient and flexible grids.”

The panel was moderated by United States Energy Association CEO Mark Menezes. Excerpts feature Edison Electric Institute CEO Dan Brouillette, EPRI CEO Arshad Mansoor, and Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick.