People In Power

Conversations with NOAA Chief Scientist Sarah Kapnick, Southwest Power Pool COO Lanny Nickell, Eurelectric Secretary General Kristian Ruby, and EPRI’s Morgan Scott and Andrew Phillips.

The Repower Project will increase energy production by about 30%, reduce the turbine count by 40% and reinvest hundreds of millions of dollars in Murray County.

S&P Global webinar excerpted, with remarks by S&P Global’s vice chair and acclaimed author, Dan Yergin, with Mohsen Bonakdarpour, Olivier Beaufils, John Mothersole, Keerti Rajan.

“MISO recently approved what they call their LRTP, Long Range Transmission Plan Tranche One – 18 projects spread out from North Dakota to Michigan, including Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.”

“I’ve been concerned about the state of our natural gas pipeline system and the Commission’s administration of Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.”

“Leadership is going the extra mile, taking the time to understand concerns and what’s important to another state.”

“It is clear that the renewable growth that we need requires a transmission system that’s more resilient and can grow faster.”

“We feel especially responsible to make sure that we bring all of the ecosystem together to express what’s going to be required from our investment perspective and how our state and communities will need to also support that from an economic development perspective.”

“In some cases, utilities opt to enter into build-transfer agreements. They’ll tender, we’ll build them, and then transfer it to them at a pre-agreed price, so it moves to the rate base. For utilities that have coal plants, they can substitute them with wind or solar.”

After they left the speaker stage at this major international event, conversations with EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, CenterPoint Energy executive vice president Gregg Knight, AES EVP and President, US and Global Business Lines Julian Nebreda. Also, an ESG roundtable with FTI Consulting’s Rodolfo Araujo, Christine DiBartolo, Ken Ditzel, and Chris LeWand.