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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.”
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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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FERC Order 881 Discussed

IEEE

FERC Order 881 was the subject of discussion at a recent IEEE Power & Energy Society T&D Conference, which was attended by POWER Engineers’ Lisa Deppa. She explains here the latest on Order 881 and why it is important to the decarbonization journey.
Byline: 

Lisa Deppa

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Power infrastructure: Washington UTC

State Commissioners

“The distribution system needs communication and management systems to provide a greater understanding of what’s happening on the distribution grid as large and small customers are installing more distributed energy resources. With this, utilities can better manage peak demands and ensure reliability.”
Byline: 

Ann Rendahl, with Paul Kjellander

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Building Equity in Building T&D

Burns & McDonnell

"We ask our project managers to first understand why business diversity is important, then to understand that we will need to subcontract our typical engineering services that we provide. Those are two new ways of thinking for our employee-owners."
Byline: 

Daniel Sierra and Laron Evans

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Power infrastructure: Wyoming PSC

State Commissioners

“Much infrastructure growth and research and development are going to require continued government intervention, whether in the form of funding for research or loan guarantees. The picture, in my mind, has been getting a little clearer over the last few years, but I still don’t see a clear path to either 2030 or 2040.”
Byline: 

Mary Throne, with Paul Kjellander

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