The Energy Infrastructure Imperative
Giant Leaps Call for Giant Courage and Confidence
Like the space program, the drive to decarbonize is encountering many unsolved problems. Each has the potential to prevent a smooth landing.
Law & Lawyers
PUF Annual Pulse of Power Survey 2024
8 Questions
Guidehouse’s Mackinnon Lawrence, Nick McClusky, Bill Hughes, and Joe Owens analyze survey results.
Utility Regulators Ensuring Resilience and Safety Through Cybersecurity
NARUC
Recent advisories confirm that nation-state threat actors are actively seeking to compromise critical infrastructure sectors, especially the electric grid.
Ten Commissioners Talk Infrastructure
Unique conversations
Ten Commissioners from varied parts of the nation answered these questions: What are the most important needs for electric power infrastructure? What are your greatest concerns about infrastructure? How should utility regulation adjust to these needs and concerns, if at all? How different will electric power infrastructure be in the year 2040?
Power Walk
About This Painting
“When people complain and say, “not in my backyard,” I find it difficult to commiserate. When I see transmission towers, I see the infrastructure necessary to drive economic opportunity and prosperity. And the energy that makes everyday life easier to enjoy.”
Innovation: Mike Innocenzo
Exelon Innovation Summit
“It’s less about how to drive that culture and more about how to unleash it. The passion is in all of our employees, and every one of those employees says, ‘There’s a better way.’”
Innovation: Sunny Elebua
Exelon
“We have a Reinvent website, where employees can submit their thoughts and ideas in support of our business operations or for the betterment of our customers, which are then evaluated and possibly put into our business.”
Ms. Fedorchak Goes to Washington
NARUC President Wins Primary
NARUC President Julie Fedorchak prevailed in the Republican Primary and her name will appear on the ballot this November in an election to determine who shall sit in North Dakota’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Innovation: Colette Honorable
Exelon Innovation Summit
“The multi-year rate plans meet a number of objectives for us. We can say upfront, ‘Commission and customer, this is how we plan to invest in the infrastructure over three years, over five years. Hold us accountable.’ That creates certainty, transparency.”
Talking Wildfires
Unique conversations
Conversations with Puget Sound Energy CEO Mary Kipp, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Chair Leo Asuncion, Pacific Power President Ryan Flynn, Rocky Mountain Power President Dick Garlish, with paintings by PUF’s Paul Kjellander.