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Advanced Conductors Arrive Not a Moment Too Soon

Moving the Grid Forward

“Advanced conductors make it possible to deploy big upgrades within existing rights of way, even reusing existing towers for reconductoring projects that can be accomplished with relative lightning speed and for lower total costs that make ratepayers, consumer advocates, and public utility commissions happy.”
Byline: 

Charles Bayless

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Decarbonization: Thad LeVar

PUC of Utah

“When you’re trying to build things like transmission lines, you can’t build them in the West without crossing over federal land. Unless significant changes occur, that takes a long time to work through the Bureau of Land Management to ultimately receive approval.”
Byline: 

Thad LeVar

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Decarbonization: Jehmal Hudson

Virginia SCC

“We are seeing a greater number of filings by developers for approval of new solar facilities. We are also seeing an increased number of transmission projects being filed with the Commission. That’s because there are a lot of data centers being built in our state, particularly in northern Virginia.”
Byline: 

Jehmal Hudson

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Decarbonization: Ann Rendahl

Washington UTC

“The greatest risks are cost and affordability, even with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and all federal funds coming to utilities from those laws. Washington has a state Clean Energy Fund that supports utility investments in the clean energy transition, but it does not cover the significant costs of investment.”
Byline: 

Ann Rendahl

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Transforming Resource Adequacy

A Reliable, Clean Energy Future

“As a way forward, regulators and policymakers need to modernize the way they support the development, planning and operation of the bulk power system, which is beyond the certainty of resource capacity.”
Byline: 

Jim Robb and Mark Lauby

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Loans Available

DOE Loan Programs Office

“The program can scale up to $250 billion of lending up to 30 years, depending on life of the asset, at a rate as low as U.S. Treasuries plus three eighths of a point. Those benefits have to flow through to regulated customers. An unregulated project, say a merchant coal plant being replaced with solar and storage, that low-cost financing benefit can accrue to the developer.”
Byline: 

Leslie Rich

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Role of State Consumer Advocates

NASUCA

A roundtable with NASUCA President Chris Ayers (North Carolina), Vice President Michael Moody (Michigan), Treasurer Tom Content (Wisconsin); the Executive Committee’s Michele Beck (Utah), Bill Fine (Indiana), Nanette Edwards (South Carolina), Patrick Cicero (Pennsylvania), David Lapp (Maryland); and Executive Director David Springe.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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