People In Power

“AI and cloud computing are contributing to the demand for electricity but are also a solution to helping manage it, along with other challenges like aging infrastructure, sustainability initiatives, and providing safe, reliable, and affordable energy.”

We asked eleven Commissioners about what policy tools they think are most effective for addressing affordability and equity concerns.

We asked eleven Commissioners how they think the energy transformation will impact affordability and equity.

We asked Commissioners how they incorporate affordability and equity into decision-making.

PUF asked Commissioners how they define energy affordability and if they think there is a consensus on the definition.

“We may need to build more grid infrastructure, depending on location and situation. However, we’re not going to get that tomorrow, so it’s important grid management be smarter. This is about enabling grid orchestration using AI/ML to enable an automated and adaptive grid.”

“The American Society of Civil Engineers gave a C- grade to U.S. drinking water systems, and a D+ grade to U.S. wastewater systems. It’s not where we want to be as a country.”

“I’d like to make sure that every state Commissioner views NARUC as the one indispensable resource they can’t do their jobs without.”

“To make sense of what’s happening, you must be able to process and integrate data from a wide variety of sources and in huge volume. You want that data to be right, so the meaning, type, and quality of the data must be clear.”

At the business meeting of the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, members of the Committee on Water joined to discuss how to use each other’s policies, planning, and lessons learned from regulating their commodity to better operate the other during the 2024 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference. They focused on how electric and water utilities can learn from each other’s experiences, leverage best practices and work together to serve communities more effectively.