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This session was co-sponsored by the Committee on Electricity and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and co-moderated by Commissioners Andrew French, Kansas CC, and Jehmal Hudson, Virginia SCC.

The Keynote speaker at Wednesday's general session was Rep. Michael (Mike) Simpson (R-ID), House Appropriations Committee, Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and member Interior and Environment Subcommittee. Simpson engaged in a lively Q&A session with NARUC President Paul Kjellander.

NARUC's committee representatives discussed the most important issues facing State Commissions. What would they say to the new administration about priorities? How can the feds best work with states to achieve goals? What's uppermost on the minds of State Commissioners who also lead NARUC's standing committees? The panel was facilitated by NARUC's 2nd Vice President, Michael Caron.

“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”