What's Former Michigan PSC Chair Talberg Working on Now?
Unique conversations
How can we make the supply chain for solar (presently largely offshore-based) more resilient?
Law & Lawyers
ESG: Catherine Finneran and Jeff Kotkin
Eversource
“Carbon neutrality is another way we’ve set ourselves apart. A couple of years ago when we set the goal to become carbon neutral by 2030 in our operations, we were the first to set such an early date for full neutrality.”
Make-Ready Programs for EVs
ScottMadden
“EV make-ready is the electric distribution infrastructure needed to support increased load and demand brought by EV charging infrastructure.”
ESG: Shawn Anderson and Pablo Vegas
NiSource
“We’re going to have to tailor solutions and blend them in a way that’s going to meet the needs of communities, make sure our customers are not left behind, and we have equitable outcomes.”
Old Insurance Policies Could Be Worth Their Weight in Gold, Part 2
Environmental Contamination
“A utility may be dealing with a manufactured gas plant or other facility that closed down in the early 1900s, yet the policies may not have been issued until the 1940s.”
ESG: David Anderson and Kim Heiting
NW Natural
“Over eighty percent of our customers want us to be pursuing renewable natural gas, to be working on solutions that balance affordability and our climate objectives.”
David Owens: 2021 Financial Research Institute’s Crystal Award
FRI
A conversation with retired EEI executive vice president David Owens about FRI’s distinguished service award.
ESG: Caroline Winn
San Diego Gas & Electric
“We’re developing a green hydrogen project, and it’s part of that long-duration energy storage pilot. We’ll install hydrogen storage containers that will help support over ten hours of energy storage for a fuel cell.”
Telling ESG Stories
In the ESG Era
In what could be aptly called the Environmental, Social and Governance Era, utilities are being scored for their ethical performance, quite rigorously, quite comprehensively, by highly influential organizations. The issue is so big that we devoted a special issue of PUF to it.
ESG: Lisa Alexander
Sempra
“Some of those goals include delivering 60% renewable or zero-carbon energy to California electric consumers by 2030 at SDG&E and delivering 20% RNG to core customers by 2030 at SoCalGas.”