Perspective

“A lot of people said, if we are to have a decarbonized energy system, then the gas system cannot be a part of it. This report shows we can, and it shows it in a reasonable way.”

Conversation with Reuters’ Owen Rolt about the jam-packed collection of CEOs and other industry leaders in this conference that is just around the corner in Brooklyn.

“The Association of Edison Illuminating Companies Power Generation Committee promotes safety, technological, and operational advances in power generation by providing a forum for dialogue between suppliers and utilities. Members represent approximately 60% of electricity generated in the U.S.”

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration forecasts the year and beyond, hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“Where in critical infrastructure do I think the next industry difference can be made? Particularly around reliance, safety, impact on community. I concluded digitization is the next frontier.”

“Critical balancing capability is largely provided by highly flexible natural gas generation. We must invest to maintain (and improve) the natural gas system’s ability to meet the balancing needed to assure reliability.”

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies’ Leadership has reached out to encourage utilities to sign up to use the Mutual Assistance Resource Coordination software tool. There are eight utilities ready to utilize MARC once it’s rolled out to production this year.

“There are big success stories. Like the AEP project in Texas, Lower Rio Grande Valley, when they had to increase capacity on the 345-kV cable lines and couldn’t take them out. They had to do it live and reconductored them.”

“How can investments in resiliency improve a utility’s ESG score, and potentially, how could undergrounding current overhead T&D lines improve ESG?”

“Over the years, USEA has built tools and data to assess the market and network in this region that are state-of-the-art and ensure that we can reliably anticipate the impacts of alternative future conditions.”