In a series of forums on the commercialization and deployment of breakthrough clean energy technologies that reduce carbon emissions, the latest Edison Electric Institute conference concerned long duration energy storage.

The Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment held its annual awards in person for the first time in two years.

“By using the current forward-looking market risk premium, such cost of equity analysis has the advantage of excluding the noise incorporated in historical averages that represent information likely no longer relevant to investors and the market.”

“A well-constructed regulatory plan is the most critical element of the application approval filing.”

“We’ve developed a platform called EV Data Aggregation that collects the charging data from both level two chargers and vehicle telematics. Those data insights can help utilities with grid and infrastructure planning.”

“Utilities need to get visibility into what’s happening, who’s charging their vehicles, when and where. Before everybody in the neighborhood starts charging, blows a transformer, and you’ve got bigger problems. It’s getting that visibility that’s a game changer.”

“FirstEnergy’s ADMS did it all, on time, on budget, with all expected functionalities. In all ways, this is a milestone in our industry. I have been in this industry since the mid-eighties and haven’t seen anything like it.”

“To better manage the rise in connections to the grid, utilities should consider implementing a Distributed Energy Management System, or DERMS, that can aggregate, and in some cases, control customer-owned assets.”

“One of the events was a cyberattack on GPS systems found in vehicles. This threat was taken from a real government alert. Vehicles started shutting down.”

Conversation with Electric Power Research Institute’s Katie Jereza about the United Nations Climate Change Conference and related EPRI initiatives like Climate READi.