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Global Energy Transition: Gregg Knight

CenterPoint Energy

“We feel especially responsible to make sure that we bring all of the ecosystem together to express what’s going to be required from our investment perspective and how our state and communities will need to also support that from an economic development perspective.”
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Gregg Knight

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Presiding Over MACRUC

MACRUC

“Leadership is going the extra mile, taking the time to understand concerns and what’s important to another state.”
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Gladys Brown Dutrieuille, with Paul Kjellander

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POV on Cloud Computing for Utilities

Accenture

Cloud computing has tremendous value propositions in driving safe, clean, and affordable utility services and infrastructure, which are the very premises the regulatory bodies want to ascertain. Utilities lag significantly behind other industries in adopting cloud computing, primarily because of the disincentives imposed by traditional regulatory accounting. This article discusses the urgency for utilities and regulators to accelerate their journey to the cloud and the steps to be taken to embark on that journey.
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Siddharth Purohit, Debanjan Chakraborty, Ruari Monahan

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M&A in Uncertain Times

PwC

“We’re targeting carbon reduction and that could incent deals. The other side of that is, it seems the bar continues to get raised in how deals will be evaluated and the scrutiny they’ll be under given ESG goals.”
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Jeremy Fago

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Federal vs. State Regulation in 1930

PUF in History

In a 1930 edition of PUF, Senator James Couzens defended his Senate Bill 3869, which would regulate the interstate transmission of power, and stated emphatically that it would not interfere with state commission regulation. Harold E. West, Chairman, Public Service Commission of Maryland, offered a rebuttal.
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PUF

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