New York PSC: James Alesi
Commissioner
“The one thing that’s going to drive this Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is acceptance by the public. I’m optimistic because the general public is now aware of what we’re trying to do.”
Law & Lawyers
USEA State of the Energy Industry Forum: Maria Korsnick
Nuclear Energy Institute
“The IRA includes a new production tax credit to help the existing fleet stay online for years. It encourages new nuclear with a clean electricity investment tax credit that covers 30% of investment in zero carbon facilities, including nuclear. If the company uses American manufacturing, they get an additional 10%. If you build in a community supported by a retiring fossil fuel plant, that’s another 10%.”
New York PSC: Tracey Edwards
Commissioner
“My hope is everyone will have the same vision. I believe there’s resistance to a clean-energy future. I’m not sure we’re at the hearts and minds yet. If you are a utility and you are getting things done, it’s hard to let go of traditional ways.”
USEA State of the Energy Industry Forum: Mike Sommers
American Petroleum Institute
“This is the moment we believe we can finally get permitting reform done. There is a bipartisan consensus to get this done. You’re not going to be able to build out these high-powered transmission lines. We need more pipelines in this country to transport product from where it is to where it needs to be.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Buddy Hasten
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas
“Our challenge is the pace at which people are being forced into a clean-energy transition with resources that don’t have the capability to carry the load. We’re seeing blackouts. For us, it’s maybe slowing things down a bit.”
DistribuTECH: Casey Werth
IBM
“It’s data governance, topics around security within data. How do we move knowledge workers from having to ask for access to data?”
AEIC Member Spotlight on Tampa Electric
AEIC
“The Big Bend modernization project was completed on time and under budget despite challenges to dismantlement of the coal-fired unit, need to construct a large pipe bridge over a canal, and impact of the ongoing global pandemic.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Suzanne Lane
Kansas Electric Power Cooperative
“For Winter Storm Uri in 2021, we were part of those historic curtailments. That highlighted we can’t continue our traditional mindset that reliability is keeping wires in the air. That was the old way of thinking. It has evolved into the fuel deliverability, availability aspects of it.”
DistribuTECH: Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi
OATI
“We are bullish about combining our capabilities on transmission with distribution, bringing the two together, and then with emergence of the whole decarbonization initiative. That is a necessary element to tap on flexibilities available on the demand side to provide balancing services needed on the wholesale side.”
Global Electrification Forum: Electric Power CEOs and Executives from Around the World
EEI
“At the seventh GEF, join us for the largest gathering of electric power sector CEOs and executives from around the world. Together we will explore how we provide affordable, reliable, resilient clean energy in a world facing geopolitical shifts, natural disasters, demographic changes, and uncertainty.”