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New York PSC: John Maggiore

Commissioner

“The PSC makes decisions independent of electoral politics. The history of the Commission is the PSC is a spinoff of the legislature. Go back to 1907, and the functions were exclusively legislative. They were not executive.”
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John Maggiore

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On the Front Line in Ukraine

DTEK

Inspiring words by DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko: Our industrial consumers are ready to pay the European price, so they have a guaranteed supply of electricity. We are in discussion with our government to liquidate this economic distortion, so we can use this available cross-border capacity at full capacity.
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Maxim Timchenko

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New York PSC: John Howard

Commissioner

“If we need to build 140,000 MW of new generation, in excess of 15 MW of storage, and related transmission, this is a ginormous cost. The legislature that passed the law has the goal, but no one communicated the price tag. I think every Commission around the country is now bumping up against the price tag.”
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John Howard

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New York PSC: David Valesky

Commissioner

“We will continue to face real challenges regarding reliability. Just and reasonable rates is another way of saying affordability. There is a lot of pressure around affordability issues, not exclusive to our Climate Law.”
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David Valesky

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New York PSC: Tammy Mitchell

Director

“For some of these water rate cases, the Staff has had to go to people’s residences and go through shoe boxes full of receipts in order to build a rate case for them, so that the companies can set the rates to appropriately cover their costs.”
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Tammy Mitchell

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Picture Energy: NASEO 2023

Memorable Moments

The National Association of State Energy Officials held its 2023 Energy Policy Outlook Conference with the theme of lean Energy Abundance: An Economic and Climate Advantage.
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PUF

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New York PSC: Richard Berkley

Director

“For my folks who pick up the phones in the call center and in OCS, we’re the most public facing of all of the divisions of DPS. They get a lot of negative reinforcement from the outside world, which is a shame. It’s important to tell them what they do is valuable. I’m saying thank you.”
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Richard Berkley

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