Michigan PSC: Norm Saari
Commissioner
“There’s a renaissance, both literally and figuratively, that’s going on in downtown Detroit. It’s making DTE Energy rebuild its system.”
Law & Lawyers
Save Some Power Plants, Clean Up the Cars
Remember to Breathe Series
EPA and Transportation are considering freezing standards for five years at 2020 levels. That’s a step backwards for clean air. It should be worrying to the power sector.
Michigan PSC: Rachael Eubanks
Commissioner
“When people get here they are involved, and they’re personally relevant in shaping the energy future.”
Missing an Opportunity for Building Systems Efficiency?
Systems Efficiency Initiative
An area with high potential for scaling up energy savings is utility-led programs that incorporate systems efficiency approaches.
Michigan State Senator Mike Nofs
Chair of Energy and Technology Committee
In the end, you’re going to pick winners and losers. If the process is fair, they’ll say, we had our shot.
More Efficient Way to Help Low Income Families
Doing Well, Doing Good
We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift that we in energy efficiency thought was nearly impossible: behavior change.
Michigan PSC: Electric Generation Infrastructure
Julie Baldwin, Cathy Cole, and Pat Poli
“We want to make sure that everyone who works on the rate cases are going to be prepared..”
Managing Risk of Innovation Deployment
An Insurance Model
If the new technology is not successful, customers may pay for both the failed experiment and the energy or technology to replace the failed equipment.
Michigan PSC: Electric Distribution Infrastructure
Pat Hudson and Ryan Laruwe
“The long-term goal is to integrate more of the distribution plans, the IRPs, and the transmission expansion planning that goes on separately and bring them all together.”
EEI Meets on the Left Coast: EEI's 2018 Annual Convention
Picture Energy
Magnificent San Diego weather. So much to do, from grazing at the zoo to glimpsing the Pacific Fleet base. Yet the many hundreds of attendees clustered in the convention's conference rooms most of the time to take in the topics of the day, resilience, renewable integration, cybersecurity, new regulatory and business models, workforce diversity and inclusion, electrification of transportation, and energy storage. See the magazine layout and photos here.