Fortnightly Magazine - January 2024

Tri-State's Future Per Its CEO

Tri State G&T

“By the end of this decade, we’ll be 89% decarbonized for our Colorado consumers from a 2005 baseline. Across all four states we will be 70% clean energy consumed by the end of the decade.”

How Fleet Electrification is Going

Accenture

“The majority of organizations are still in the early stages of fleet electrification and have either not yet started the process or are less than a quarter of the way through.”

Large Public Power Council on Grid Reliability

Power Shift

From the Large Public Power Council’s “Power Shift” meeting on Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill, excerpts of remarks by U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Omaha Public Power District CEO Javier Fernandez, LPPC Chair & Long Island Power Authority CEO Tom Falcone, and United States Energy Association CEO Mark Menezes.

How Can We Ensure Energy Transition is Just?

Procedural Justice at State Commissions

“State-level regulators across the country do not currently have a shared understanding of what they would need to do differently to ensure that disadvantaged communities have a meaningful opportunity to be heard in decision-making processes and help shape better outcomes.”

The Impact of the Electrification of Everything

GridFWD 2023

Moderated by POWER Engineers Chief Digital Officer Nathan Bingham, this panel featured National Grid Principal Analyst for Clean Energy Development Gideon Katsh, PXiSE CEO Tim Allen, Avista Utilities Director of Avista Innovation Lab John Gibson, and Landis+Gyr Director of Regulatory Affairs and Industry Relations Marguerite Behringer.

Three Opportunities for Utilities in 2024

Addressing the Energy Trilemma

“Managed services, especially in back-office functions like finance, procurement, tax and cyber, can help utilities drive innovation and reshape spending to better manage through the energy transition.”

A Leading Role for Technical Requirements in Grid Transformation

The Art of Storytelling

“If the utilities that own the current assets and their operational experts who understand how the grid works don’t become better educators and storytellers about the technical needs of grid transformation, then they risk future misalignment of business and regulatory models that could negatively impact operations and financial stability.”
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