Powering the People
Edison Foundation
Excerpts of remarks from the Institute for Electric Innovation’s Powering the People annual conference.
Law & Lawyers
Tracking Utility Reliability for Nearly Four Decades
PA Consulting
“There are companies that are consistent and dedicated to reliability, and it shows. It comes out in the consistency of the improvement in their performance. That is what we’ve been talking about. You have to keep getting better.”
Powering the People: D.C. Commission
Edison Foundation
“Looking forward, we know we can’t rely solely on utility discount programs to ensure affordability for our ratepayers. We have to look at ways to ensure that the energy that’s being procured is being done in an inexpensive manner, as well as that we are reducing overall usage.”
Critical Issues Shaping the Global Energy Industry: A Look Ahead to 2024
EEI International
“Building on the momentum of COP28, we expect 2024 to be a year where businesses and governments continue to lean in on deploying clean energy technologies. In the U.S., we continue to support siting and permitting reform and the buildout of transmission to support the deployment of clean energy.”
Powering the People: DTE Energy
Edison Foundation
“We’re pivoting our model and taking a broader approach to say, where can we have a dedicated low-income team that is not just helping when someone has a problem with bills but is there when they are onboarding and when they’re setting up their service to get a better sense of what the profile is of that user.”
A Leading Role for Technical Requirements in Grid Transformation
The Art of Storytelling
“If the utilities that own the current assets and their operational experts who understand how the grid works don’t become better educators and storytellers about the technical needs of grid transformation, then they risk future misalignment of business and regulatory models that could negatively impact operations and financial stability.”
Powering the People: Oracle
Edison Foundation
“We’re normalizing it by letting folks know how many people in their area, territory, zip code, are participating in programs. We’re letting them know it’s normal in their neighborhood, giving them exact data, so folks understand it’s not only those folks who are that check away from poverty, but a lot are going in and out of these programs over time.”
Powering the People: Fortis
Edison Foundation
“It’s not about flattening the load; it’s about shaping the load to match your resources. This is weird, so it’s not resources following load, necessarily, there’s still a lot of that going on, but this is also a conversation about load following resources. That’s how this has changed.”
Powering the People: Southern Company
Edison Foundation
“We’re putting demand-side resources on a more equal playing field. That’s an evolution that we’ve not done with such advanced modeling before.”
What's in Store in Twenty-Four?
Scylla and Charybdis
As we contemplate how we, in the fashion of Odysseus, shall confront the various Scylla and Charybdis of the new year, it is good to remember the strengths of our ship at sea.