Idaho PUC: Marsha Smith
Former Commissioner and NARUC President
Staff is critically important, because Commissioners have to decide on a number of issues spanning all of the utilities, and Staff can be specialized and concentrate.
Law & Lawyers
Resilience is Their Middle Name
Saluting Our Heroes of Heroes
The utility workforce – their tasks complicated by exposure to the sickness and initially, shortage of protective supplies – is out there once again, for us.
Idaho PUC: Don Howell
Former Chief Deputy Attorney General
The General Counsel has to feel comfortable in that they have to tell the Commissioner sometimes bad news or what the law is in certain areas.
Saluting the IBEW and Utility Workforce
Six Conversations
While we suspend our daily schedules, the utility workforce goes all out.
FERC Formula Rate Resurgence
Transmission Cost Recovery Revisited
Utilities relying on stated rates during a transmission buildout phase are leaving money on the table.
Utility Workforce: Jerry Bellah
IBEW VP, Eighth District
Being a lineman in the field, you’re one of the more valuable people in the economy in the U.S., as they are considered an essential occupation and stayed working during the lockdown.
Working to Secure Our Electricity Grid
Standards, Information Sharing, and Partnerships
NERC is interested in sharing how adversaries seek to do harm. At the centerpiece of this effort is NERC’s Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
Utility Workforce: Donnie Colston and Mark Brueggenjohann
IBEW Utility & Media Directors
The IBEW represents railroad workers, manufacturing, media, utilities, outside construction, and every aspect of the utility industry.
Utility Transformation in the Age of Resiliency, Business Continuity, Gray Rhinos
Decentralization, Digitization, and Decarbonization
The future belongs to full-service providers that orchestrate an ever more complex, clean, distributed, mobile, and intelligent energy system.
Utility Workforce: Drew Stover
Business Manager, IBEW Local 84
Safety is priority number one for all of us and our employers partner with us on that.