Picture Energy: Summer Summit Soapbox Luncheon
PUF
Many NARUC Summer Policy Summit attendees chose to have fun and be enlightened at PUF’s Soapbox Luncheon.
Law & Lawyers
West Virginia v EPA – Upending Administrative Law
The Congressional Review Act
The Congressional Review Act is an efficient and effective way in which Congress preserved its role under the Constitution to make the laws.
Doing More with Less: Northern Wind Repower Project
ALLETE Clean Energy
The Repower Project will increase energy production by about 30%, reduce the turbine count by 40% and reinvest hundreds of millions of dollars in Murray County.
Grid Transformation: Force It vs Fit It
The Number One Issue of Our Time
PUF’s September issue features this philosophical debate.
Grid Transformation: NERC's CEO Concerned
NERC
“We’ve been seeing the risk to the system and the risk of the system not being able to perform increasing. We started to see that in 2018. Then every year since, we’ve seen in our assessments, more areas experiencing these risks and the pace increasing.”
Grid Transformation: FERC Commissioner on Reliability
FERC
“I’ve been concerned about the state of our natural gas pipeline system and the Commission’s administration of Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.”
MISO Moves on Upper Midwest Transmission
MISO
“MISO recently approved what they call their LRTP, Long Range Transmission Plan Tranche One – 18 projects spread out from North Dakota to Michigan, including Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.”
Public Power's Policy Makers Council Comes to Washington
APPA
“We’re always tying it back to how these policies impact their constituents, because that’s what they care about. But we work very closely with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.”
Leading BPA
Power Markets
“There was a 2.5% rate decrease in our last rate case on the power side. Business is promising. I wouldn’t be surprised if we can manage our rates at least flat or in the zone of keeping them flat, this upcoming rate case.”
New Nuclear's Role in Decarbonization
NEI, Breakthrough Inst.
“As difficult as it might seem to build a nuclear power plant, building multi-state transmission has proven more difficult. The Princeton study shows need for 3 or 4 times as much new transmission capacity added if you do the whole job with just renewables versus firm clean generation from things like nuclear.”