People In Power

“If you’re looking at 30-year investments and have to decide now whether to invest in them, even 10 years from now, we can’t predict what reliability needs are going to be to trigger a reliability relief valve. If I heard you correctly, you’re fundamentally rethinking that approach.”

“Our most important accomplishment was our safety performance. 2023 was Cleco’s best safety performance record in the company’s history."

“Ontario is the major nuclear province; two huge generating stations at Bruce Power and Darlington. Both undergoing refurbishments. It’s a 26-billion-dollar project, the largest infrastructure project in Canada now. We are proudly telling the world these projects, halfway through, are on time and on budget.”

“The Biden administration announced a pause on LNG export facilities. What will that mean? The U.S. is the number one producer and became the number one exporter of natural gas in the second half of 2022, following the Russian invasion, when Europe decided to cut access to Russia’s pipelines.”

“The challenge is the U.S. IRA had the effect of people looking at the capital that was going to go to those projects, potentially going to the U.S. To level that playing field, we made a formal proposal to Finance Canada for an investment tax credit that would support production of renewable natural gas.”

“Our big concern with the draft Clean Electricity Regulations is they’re taking an aggressive approach to decarbonizing the remaining grid, and even though that will only result in a perhaps 3-percentage point increase in non-emitting electricity, it would massively increase costs and risks to public safety.”

“In our proposals and plans for the HyVelocity Hub, about 80% of the hydrogen production is going to come from hydrogen produced with natural gas. Another 20% will come from electrolysis. It’s important that we’re increasingly understanding the carbon intensity of hydrogen. The Open Hydrogen Initiative will help with that.”

The panel was moderated by United States Energy Association CEO Mark Menezes. Discussions featured American Gas Association CEO Karen Harbert, America’s Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth, American Public Power Association CEO Scott Corwin, Large Public Power Council President John Di Stasio, and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson.

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.

“As a make-ready program, we help cover the cost of bringing power from the grid, including any grid upgrades the customer would be responsible for, all the way to the electric vehicle charger, but the program doesn’t cover the charger itself.”