Ohio PUC: Alan Martin
Deputy Director, Transportation Department
“We’re busy. We’re a crossroads state, so we’ve got a lot of traffic coming through the state. There’s always work for us.”
Perspective
Ohio PUC: Angela Hawkins, Jeff Jones, Greg Price
Legal
“We make sure that we move cases forward as quickly as possible.”
Ohio PUC, Hisham Choueiki
Federal Energy Advocate
“The biggest challenge is explaining highly technical matters to policy/decision makers.”
Ohio PUC: Bethany Allen
Chief Commission Aide
“I present a thorough review to the chairman that highlights decision points, provides recommendations.”
Ohio PUC: Dan Conway
Commissioner
“We want to provide a more efficient, robust, and opportunity-rich infrastructure here, particularly on the electricity side.”
A Day at the PUC of Ohio
Thirteen interviews
PUF’s Steve Mitnick with Chair Asim Haque, Vice-Chair Beth Trombold, Commissioners Dan Conway, Larry Friedeman and Tom Johnson; and Bethany Allen, Hisham Choueiki, Angela Hawkins, Jeff Jones, Alan Martin, Howard Petricoff, Greg Price, Kristina Schaefer, Tammy Turkenton, John Williams.
Mason Willrich's Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure
Book Review
Just about everyone agrees that the nation's electricity infrastructure needs to be modernized. But where should one begin? How long will the process take? How much should be spent on modernization? What portion of the modernization budget should go to generation, transmission, and distribution? What specific technologies should be developed?
These are difficult questions that have no easy answers. A new book by Mason Willrich takes these questions head-on and provides some good answers.
Avoiding Institutional Inertia
Energizing Innovation
Sustaining innovation over the long-term means positioning it as a fundamental capability of the enterprise.
QF Purchase Obligation
Energy Bar Association’s Energy Law Series
Making Clear Distinctions: Part of the problem is incorrectly using “waiver” and “termination” interchangeably.
Government, Utilities, Public Interacting
An Evolving Conundrum
The key is to utilize the Internet of Things to enable real-time communication of data, ideas, policy preferences, and decision-making.