Perspective

Roundtable discussion with the chief financial officers of Consolidated Edison (Robert Hoglund), ITC Holdings (Gretchen Holloway), PSEG (Dan Cregg) and Xcel Energy (Bob Frenzel).

Why should we have supposed that residential bills would be significantly lower under competition?

A large percentage of utility poles in Japan are either made of concrete or are underground, not only to withstand typhoons, but of course earthquakes.

The result of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision is a whole lot of uncertainty. If you are an electric utility, you don’t know for sure who will be allowed to attach their lines (or antennas) to your poles. If you are a state legislator or regulator, you don’t know if any laws or regulations you adopt will be upheld.

Utilities need to find unconventional ways to take advantage of market innovation without over-taxing or under-utilizing internal resources and capabilities.

While FERC is wise to consider how its sister federal agencies estimate the cost of equity, a review of those agencies’ estimation methods spotlights fatal flaws in FERC’s proposed new approach.

Our support will fit into the realm of opportunities of developing the electricity market in West Africa by promoting the regional power market.

FERC should bolster its regional and inter-regional transmission planning requirements to facilitate grid expansion, lower power prices, and achieve state and federal public policy goals.

Conversations with former FERC Chair Jim Hoecker and legendary developer Michael Skelly at the International Summit on the Electric Transmission Grid.

In some instances, you’re seeing folks looking at freeing up capital through portfolio rationalization to deploy into more focused areas that they consider strategic to their core business.