Law & Lawyers

“The need to secure social acceptance of the energy transition is pushing policymakers and energy companies to engage with previously unnoticed social aspects of energy policy. The energy transition won’t happen if energy democratization doesn’t happen.”

Stan Connally, Maria Pope, Lisa Barton, Brian Savoy, and Matthew Ketschke tell us what motivates them to devote the time and energy necessary to play a big role in setting the course at EPRI.

“Resilience is increasingly top of mind – despite the growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events and fires – but it is cybersecurity, rather than physical security and grid hardening, where utility industry participants see the greatest risk currently.”

“How do you create the balance between the necessary upgrades and the anticipatory upgrades you need to do? That’s on the mind of all regulators. We think about threading the needle.”