Perspective

A conversation with Power 1 Energy’s Ed Jenks, Katie Widmar, Patrick Farah, Fred Bonewell, Robert Siegler, and Richard Thum.

“Since Arkansas has a vertically integrated market, there needs to be a regulatory proceeding with the PUC where the tariff is created. We want to make sure it’s going to meet the objective of the federal government in ensuring we are bringing in new carbon pollution-free electricity to meet that fifty percent 24/7 goal.”

“EEI won the 2022 CHARGE Energy Branding Award for Energy Advocates of the Year. The award recognizes EEI for its International Programs and global electrification advocacy efforts.”

“While many updates and improvements have been made to these funding opportunities, they are grounded in the original legislation from 2007.”

“It is time for a win for rural electric cooperative members nationwide who wish to pursue flexible, innovative energy solutions.”

“Utilities are uniquely positioned to bring together and advise all stakeholders to address the operational and technological challenges associated with installing a wide enough network of high-powered chargers for commercial vehicles.”

“We force device makers to interoperate and work within a heterogenous network. That’s not easy to do. We authenticate and provide means to certify the device. In that way, JERA and other companies we work with are immune to vendor lock.”

“What we expect is a lot of cyber policies will be litigated in court. It’s trying to figure out attribution, and attribution is difficult to prove.”

“Risk management in this space falls into three large buckets. First people, then process. Have we built an appropriate process that uses people and has sufficient oversight and controls? Then it’s technology.”

“We expect to see an initial, about one fifth of $2.5 billion in grid resilience formula funding for states to be in the states’ hands sometime next spring to summer.”