NARUC Summer Policy Summit
Moderator Floyd McKissick Jr. is a Commissioner at the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Moderator Kelsey Bagot is a Commissioner at the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Ann Collier is Senior Manager, Emerging Technology at the Smart Electric Power Alliance. Natalie Mims Frick is Deputy Department Leader at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Jeff Bladen is Head of Energy at Verrus. Angela Navarro is President of ALN Policy and Law, LLC and a former Virginia Commissioner.
As demand from data centers and other large load customers increases, states are working to balance reliability and affordability. Utilities, regulators, consumer advocates, and large load customers are exploring new rate structures and tariff designs to address cost allocation, risk mitigation, and resource procurement.
Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Nevada recently approved tariffs for new large load customers. This panel explored the state objectives regulators consider when evaluating tariffs and which tariff design elements support those goals.
On the panel on Designing Tariffs for Large Load Customers were moderator and North Carolina Commissioner Floyd McKissick Jr., moderator and Virginia Commissioner Kelsey Bagot, SEPA Senior Manager, Emerging Technology Ann Collier, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Deputy Department Leader Natalie Mims Frick, Verrus Head of Energy Jeff Bladen, and ALN Policy and Law, LLC President Angela Navarro, a former Virginia Commissioner.
Moderator and North Carolina Commissioner Floyd McKissick Jr.: Based upon what Boston Consulting Group has studied and McKinsey estimated by 2030, we'll need an additional thirty to thirty-five gigawatts of new electric generating capacity.