Law & Lawyers

PUF's CFO Roundtable

Panel Discussion With Four CFOs

Roundtable discussion with the chief financial officers of Consolidated Edison (Robert Hoglund), ITC Holdings (Gretchen Holloway), PSEG (Dan Cregg) and Xcel Energy (Bob Frenzel).

Financial Conference's Chair

Duke Energy CFO

“We’ve been aggressive in our clean energy plan and we’ve committed to reduce carbon output by at least 50% by 2030 and are striving for net-zero emissions by 2050.”

Visiting Hawaiian Electric

Unique Renewable Goals

Perhaps the highest of the high points of visiting Hawaiian Electric and Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission was when Commission chair Jay Griffin announced during the pre-hearing conference we attended that "the Mitnicks" of Public Utilities Fortnightly were sitting in, as welcome guests of the Commission. (One Mitnick had flown in from Washington, D.C., the other from Tokyo.) Or perhaps when we watched the moving Hawaiian blessing of the West Loch Solar Project of Hawaiian Electric and the U.S. Navy.

Hawaii PUC: Gina Yi

Interim Chief Engineer

“I review applications from such utilities as Hawaiian Electric, reviewing its application for major projects, which includes electric diagrams.”

Beneficial Electrification Test to Assess Benefits and Costs

To Achieve Widespread Decarbonization

This article considers the opportunities and challenges of evaluating beneficial electrification investments using a BCA framework that has routinely been used for energy efficiency. It describes the traditional energy efficiency BCA tests, explores how the allocation of benefits and costs change for beneficial electrification investments, and offers suggestions that policymakers and analysts may consider when interpreting BCA test results.

Hawaiian Electric: Colton Ching

SVP for planning and technology

“Our electric supply plans are aggressive. They’re forward leading within the industry and there does not exist technology today at this moment in time that will meet all of our needs over the next 20 or 30 years.”