Law & Lawyers

PUF brings a look at a General Session that was divided into four panels, with the title, “The Tightrope: Utility CEOs’ Balancing Act.” In those four panels, utility CEOs faced Commissioners and a Consumer Advocate to discuss how they balance new resource investments and grid modernization, while ensuring reliability and reasonable rates. The CEOs grappled with tough questions, including how decisions are made concerning how and when to operationalize new initiatives, and whether communication and engagement levels are adequate.

"We’ve been vocal at the federal level to develop a permanent funding mechanism for a low-income water assistance program, just like in the electric and gas industry. LIHEAP has been around forever and it’s a meaningful program. We don’t have anything similar on the water side."

“With all the growth in the State of Florida, we have to work hard to build our system and our infrastructure in a proven way, so that we are making sure the investments are sensible, economic, and translate into rates that can be affordable over time.”

“As we’re moving through this clean energy transition, we have to invest in our distribution system and transmission, so we should explore new ways to communicate and collaborate with our Commissions and have conversations about where we’re going because the world is changing faster than it has in the past.”