Law & Lawyers

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.”

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.”

How Exelon Shows Up in Its Communities

Exelon

“What’s unique about Exelon is we serve urban dense areas, as well as rural America. Think about the coastal and rural areas in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. With ComEd, the northern part of its Illinois territory, Rockford, DeKalb.”

DistribuTECH: Patrick Lee

PXiSE

“With what we have provided, the technology to do just-in-time power control, and do it accurately, now utilities can deal with the intermittency of renewables and are enabled to adopt a higher percentage of renewable energy on their grids.”