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Emerging Policy Issues

Optimal Transmission Planning

“Transmission projects and especially groups of projects yield multiple value streams, but there is a tendency to group in traditional buckets of economic benefits, reliability benefits, and policy-driven benefits. What does it take to build our grid of the future?”
Byline: 

Sarah Freeman et al.

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From Net Zero to Hero

NorthWestern Energy

“There is a role for natural gas. We are comfortable in our net-zero plan saying we won’t require new gas generation after 2035. We expect gas generation will be used less and less, primarily for peak. But we have severe, extended peaks in our region.”
Byline: 

Bob Rowe and Paul Kjellander

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Ridding Grid of Risk with DCAT

DOE

“The DCAT tool gives a better way of looking at extreme events, so designers and system operators can plan systems that’ll be more robust against a tougher set of threats.”
Byline: 

Carl Imhoff and Paul Kjellander

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Five Smartest Blocks in the World

Avista

“Avista’s team of engineers, McKinstry, and our smart people got together and designed these buildings from the ground up with innovative systems. Instead of operating in silos, the buildings were designed to interact. They basically talk to each other and the energy grid.”
Byline: 

Dennis Vermillion and Paul Kjellander

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Integration of Grid-Edge Technologies

Duquesne Light

“The Association of Edison Illuminating Companies’ Distributed Energy Resource Subcommittee is a collective industry organization of utility-only members discussing the integration of grid-edge technologies.”
Byline: 

Elizabeth Cook

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