Ask Not What Customers Can Do for RTO Markets
Ask What RTO Markets Can Do for Customers
Centralized markets are a supporting actor in the industry. They are important, but not author, producer, director, and leading actor in the play.
Law & Lawyers
The Energy Customer Transformation
Investing in Platforms and Business Models
Be obsessed with customers, data, and needs. Build the customer journey and test it.
Not Just for Lawyers
Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas Pipelines
Can FERC reliably predict whether, when, renewables and storage will become sufficiently economically, technically feasible to displace fossil fuel generation?
Four Thought-Leaders: Brian Bird
CFO, NorthWestern Energy
“There was nothing wrong with a combustion engine until we got our electric hybrid. Even though half of the electric vehicles are in California, that’s going to change.”
Four Thought-Leaders: Frank Prager
VP – Policy and Strategy, Xcel Energy
“We need to protect the grid, and, as we approach new regulatory paradigms, we want to be sure that the grid remains reliable and modern.”
Four Thought-Leaders: Mike Deggendorf
CEO, Grid Assurance
“It's now a world where people ride-share, share Airbnb property, bike-share and car-share. The technology that enabled that to occur on the auto side, can occur on the energy side as well. Sharing of information, asset capacity and load, I think it's going to move in that direction.”
Four Thought-Leaders: Jim Laurito
EVP – Business Development, Fortis
“There is investment opportunity as far as the eye can see. We don't buy the theory of the death spiral or the demise of the utility.”
NASUCA: What You Missed If You Weren't in Minneapolis
NASUCA Mid-Year Meeting
Consumer advocates convened June 24-27, 2018.
Electric Sector, Meet Muni Broadband
NASUCA Mid-Year Meeting
Millions of residents and businesses are without adequate access to affordable broadband services.
NASUCA Takes a Serious Look at Serious Illness Protection
Utility Service Termination
At its recent Mid-Year Meeting in Minneapolis, NASUCA adopted Resolution 2018-03, "Urging Adoption of Protections Against Termination of Utility Service for Low-income, Senior, and Other At-Risk Households in Which a Seriously or Chronically Ill or Disabled Person Resides." NASUCA has good reason to focus on the needs of these households.