NARUC Annual Meeting
Steve Mitnick is President of Lines Up, Inc., Editor-in-Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly, and author of “Lines Down: How We Pay, Use, Value Grid Electricity Amid the Storm.”
You had to be in San Antonio at NARUC's Annual Meeting. The PUF team was there too, asking the PUF Question of the Day, each day of the conference. And we handed out fun buttons to those gracious attendees who answered. Greg Bollom of Madison Gas and Electric must have wanted to collect them, because he answered PUF's Question of the Day on each of the three days!
On the closing day we asked, What was the most important thing said during this Annual Meeting?
Chair Jeffrey Ackermann, Colorado PUC
The most interesting thing I heard here is that many of the topics we're dealing with, such as the topic about environmental social governance [ESG] and how it relates to corporations, is so cross-cutting that we are no longer really able to work in silos. Although we discussed that at the energy resources and the environment committee, quickly that spills into many committees who are interested in topics like that. Similarly, we're learning about regulatory process, such as how to do better pilots, [which] is not unique to any one part of regulation. And that's the future. It's more integrated thinking.