People In Power

“We’ve just received permission to build a $2 billion transmission project in Colorado to bring clean energy from the great energy resources in the eastern and southern plains of Colorado to the metroplex of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo.”

“Our study, this path to net zero, estimates that by 2045, there will be a demand for six and a half million metric tons of hydrogen in California. Almost all of that, eighty percent, is going to be used to enhance electric grid reliability.”

Conversations with San Diego Gas & Electric CEO Caroline Winn and Xcel Energy CEO Bob Frenzel, with PUF’s Steve Mitnick and Guidehouse’s Chris Rogers.

“The DCAT tool gives a better way of looking at extreme events, so designers and system operators can plan systems that’ll be more robust against a tougher set of threats.”

“Transmission projects and especially groups of projects yield multiple value streams, but there is a tendency to group in traditional buckets of economic benefits, reliability benefits, and policy-driven benefits. What does it take to build our grid of the future?”

U of Missouri’s Financial Research Institute held a two-part webinar on Optimal Transmission Planning and Development for 2022 and Beyond.

Keystone Policy Center and Dentons hosted conversations with Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley, Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz, CPS Energy general counsel and board secretary Shanna Ramirez, Dentons’ Allison Bender.

“This smarter grid allows us to have real-time information on where issues are on the system. Remote switches allow the system operator to sectionalize and reconfigure the grid in order to work around trouble spots.”

“Last November, my fellow Commissioners and I revised the rules to provide public access to renewable contract terms 18 months after the CPUC approves investor-owned-utility contracts (or 18 months after execution of contracts by other providers whose contracts do not require CPUC approval).”

Conversation with former Clean Line Energy CEO Michael Skelly, Grid Strategies president Rob Gramlich, and American Council on Renewable Energy’s Barbara Tyran.