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Power infrastructure: Louisiana PSC

State Commissioners

“I hope we don’t fail to maintain infrastructure; whether it’s distribution, transmission, generation, and adequate reinvestment to keep up these resources. We have to balance the interests as those are important, but we don’t want to over-engage and overspend needlessly.”
Byline: 

Eric Skrmetta, with Paul Kjellander

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Power infrastructure: New Mexico PRC

State Commissioners

“Items like transformers are hard to get. That can slow down the change, including the need to address resource adequacy. It also slows down economic development because new loads need transformers too. That’s the immediate need, it’s equipment.”
Byline: 

Pat O’Connell, with Paul Kjellander

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Natural Gas Commodity Prices and Cost Recovery

Customers and Utilities on Same Side

Most critically, regulators should remember that thoughtful, informed purchasing practices by utilities that know their customers and systems best, go a long way toward ensuring energy remains affordable.
Byline: 

Morgan Hoy

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Power infrastructure: North Carolina PSC

State Commissioners

“I think about the potential for increased reserve margins for utilities due to extreme weather, the impact of economic development decisions, as well as potential load growth from electrification of the motor vehicle fleet. With all that demand coming onto the grid in the near and long term, it gives me concerns. The grid is going to be challenged.”
Byline: 

Floyd McKissick, with Paul Kjellander

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Wildfires: Hawaii PUC

Unique conversations

“We put effort into the bills, making sure all concerns the legislators had were addressed. We didn’t cross the finish line. We’re looking at what we can do without legislation, what’s under our power. We can ask the utilities to develop a wildfire protection plan.”
Byline: 

Leo Asuncion with Paul Kjellander

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Roundtable: Demand is the New Supply

Alliance to Save Energy

"We learned that through immediate and accelerated investments in demand-side solutions, we can offset about a third of the incremental costs of full grid decarbonization, saving approximately $107 billion annually by 2050."
Byline: 

Teague Douglas, Vincent Barnes, Bert Van Hoof

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Power infrastructure: Pennsylvania PUC

State Commissioners

“Pennsylvania passed legislation allowing for alternative ratemaking, which allows utilities the option to utilize time-of-use, incentive, multi-year, decoupled, and other distribution rate designs. We haven’t had significant applications of these designs yet, but the tools are in the toolbox.”
Byline: 

Steve DeFrank, with Paul Kjellander

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The Transmission Transition and the Electric Ratepayer, Part 3

Price Tag in Customer Rates?

In part three, we consider institutional consequences if indifference to ratepayer impacts takes root in FERC and federal agencies or in state legislatures and with regulators. How these play out could affect policy sustainability and effectiveness as net-zero goals for 2050 grow nearer.
Byline: 

Bruce Williamson and Branko Terzic

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