Perspective

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.”

Conversations with former National Urban League President, Hugh Price, whose great grandmother was the sister of Lewis Latimer, one of the foremost founders of the electricity industry, and Lewis Latimer House Museum Executive Director, Ran Yan, about the new campaign to modernize this inspiring learning center.

“With seven tracks – Electric Vehicles, Fleet Electrification, Decarbonization, Industrial Electrification, Policy and Regulation, Affordability, Innovation – and multiple breakout sessions on the agenda over two days, there is surely a session for every attendee to enjoy and learn about.”

“Several public power utilities have moved ahead with default time-of-use or time-of-day rates, including the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California and Fort Collins Utilities in Colorado.”

“Regulators should expect a utility’s portfolio of research projects to have some failures.”

“The utilities of the future must take a holistic and optimized approach to navigate the complexity of the changing energy landscape and to better manage considerable risks around cost, reputation, and reliability.”

“Our Coal Communities Transition package was a proposal to the Arizona Corporation Commission for the Navajo Nation, Hopi tribe, and communities in Navajo County that surround our power plant, with monetary and in-kind services. Not all of it was approved.”