State Legislative Energy Priorities
What to Expect in 2021
State lawmakers are exploring ways to integrate energy storage into their grid modernization efforts, with legislatures considering nearly two hundred energy storage bills in 2020.
Uncertainty in Wake of Executive Order 13920 and Biden Administration
The Waiting Game
As President Biden begins his first few weeks in office, many within the power sector wonder how his administration will address key concerns related to securing the nation's bulk-power system.
The previous administration issued several executive orders relating to cybersecurity, including Executive Order 13920, a directive that was issued on May 1, 2020 to address security threats to the bulk-power system in the United States.
Small Co-op Tackles Big Issue: Solar Access for Low-Income Households
Roanoke’s SolarShare Program
Roanoke’s contribution is called SolarShare, which will leverage the co-op’s energy efficiency initiative and its nascent community solar program to provide energy benefits to members who struggle to pay bills.
Role of Storage in Path to Net Zero
Accenture
Accenture's report “The Role of Storage in the Path to Net Zero”: “We make a case for storage and you can see the impact it can have on whole system costs, if the costs fall and solar costs fall with it, as per current trajectory. It looks good, but the costs are still high.”
Whither the FERC?
National Regulatory Research Institute
A conversation about this new report with its author, the Director of the NARUC’s National Regulatory Research Institute.
NRRI Author Spotlight
NARUC's Winter Policy Summit
PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick discussed his book, Lewis Latimer, The First Hidden Figure, with NRRI Director Carl Pechman and an esteemed panel. The book is part of a larger activity to build diversity in the electric industry, with profits helping establish the PUF Latimer Scholarship Fund administered by the American Association of Blacks in Energy.
Green Hydrogen, Here or Hype?
NARUC's Winter Policy Summit
Is green hydrogen going to be hype or the decarbonization answer? Panelists were led by NARUC President Paul Kjellander to close out the conference. Enjoy these excerpts.
NARUC, States, and New Administration
NARUC's Winter Policy Summit
NARUC's committee representatives discussed the most important issues facing State Commissions. What would they say to the new administration about priorities? How can the feds best work with states to achieve goals? What's uppermost on the minds of State Commissioners who also lead NARUC's standing committees? The panel was facilitated by NARUC's 2nd Vice President, Michael Caron.
Congressional Update
NARUC's Winter Policy Summit
The Keynote speaker at Wednesday's general session was Rep. Michael (Mike) Simpson (R-ID), House Appropriations Committee, Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and member Interior and Environment Subcommittee. Simpson engaged in a lively Q&A session with NARUC President Paul Kjellander.
Net Energy Metering Challenges
NARUC's Winter Policy Summit
This session was co-sponsored by the Committee on Electricity and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and co-moderated by Commissioners Andrew French, Kansas CC, and Jehmal Hudson, Virginia SCC.