Law & Lawyers

Under Forty: Muge Ozerten

Hitachi ABB Power Grids

“I’m focusing on increasing the awareness of parents, and of early career colleagues in our company. I am also collaborating with my university, to reach out to female engineers.”

Transforming Utilities and Customers

Decarbonization

Utilities and customers are increasingly collaborating to accelerate decarbonization. Exelon Utilities CEO Calvin Butler and Howard County Executive Calvin Ball discussed their collaboration with the PUF team. As did Portland General Electric CEO Maria Pope, Oregon Health & Science University chief administrative officer Connie Seely and Praxair Linde director of energy & USIG integration Christian Lenci.

Virginia SCC: Cybersecurity

Information Security

“Cyber and physical security is one of the most important issues facing utilities today, particularly the electric sector, because electricity underpins our entire society.”

Under Forty: Aki Marceau

Hawaiian Electric

“We want to ensure we’re putting chargers in a place that reduces range anxiety. We want to reduce charging queuing times too. That’s a new problem.”

Virginia SCC: Information Resources

Pubic Relations

“This office handles media and public relations. If people don’t know where to go at the Commission, they typically start here. We also serve as the Commission’s legislative liaison.”

Eversource Exploring Geothermal

Eversource

“We thought about ourselves as a provider of thermal energy. If we thought about the power of geothermal from a utility scale, we could see real potential value.”

NARUC's Asia Gas Partnership From 9,000 Miles Away

Best Practices in Gas Regulation

The Asia Gas Partnership is a joint initiative with NARUC and USEA designed to strengthen regulatory frameworks to encourage public-private partnerships involving government and industry representatives among natural gas sectors in U.S. and Indo-Pacific countries.