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2026 NARUC Winter Policy Summit

3 General Session Panels

A resiliency panel was led by NARUC President and Washington Commissioner Ann Rendahl. First Vice President and Virginia Commissioner Jehmal Hudson also took center stage, leading two panels, one on permitting and a demand roundtable on large load tariffs.
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PUF

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Winter Policy Summit: Resilience in Action

NARUC

“I look forward to hearing about the ways your state, industries, and companies are addressing how to overcome silos to share resources and resilient practices, communicate across sectors, and coordinate and prioritize restoration. We can then take these lessons home.”
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Ann Rendahl et al.

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Winter Policy Summit: Permitting Timelines

NARUC

“State Commissions sit at this intersection of the federal requirements, local concerns, and project reality. Where does the permitting system break down in what the state regulators control and where do states already do well?”
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Jehmal Hudson et al.

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Winter Policy Summit: Large Load Tariffs

NARUC

“Regulators are grappling with how to address new large load growth and ensure fairness and affordability. What models stand out as best practices for ensuring new large loads are integrated while addressing affordability and customer impacts?”
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Jehmal Hudson et al.

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State Utility Regulation: Angie Hatton

Kentucky PSC

“We have areas that are not expecting load growth – and potentially even a decrease in load – like in eastern Kentucky in the Appalachian region, where we haven’t gotten a lot of economic development.”
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Angie Hatton with Paul Kjellander

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NARUC Task Force Releases Natural Gas Utility Planning Roadmaps

Strategies and Tools for Regulators

“In December 2025, the NARUC Task Force on Natural Gas Resource Planning announced the release of four planning roadmaps offering strategies and tools to help commissions align natural gas distribution utility planning processes with state policy goals.”
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Kiera Zitelman and Taylor Fitzgerald

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Bringing Long Duration Energy Storage into Focus, Part 1

No One-Size-Fits-All Solution

”Market need has led to an explosion of creativity in the long duration energy storage space, with novel technologies, from R&D to early-stage commercially viable solutions rushing to fill the gap. To untangle this dimensionality, we present a structured framework for analyzing the LDES market.”
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Molly Podolefsky and Noah Podolefsky

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Better Grid Data Can Speed Up EV Charger Deployment

A Practical Tool

“Hosting capacity analysis (HCA) maps serve as a practical tool and offer transparent, detailed insights into where the electric grid can support new load – such as EV charging infrastructure – and where costly utility upgrades may be unavoidable. HCAs are emerging as a critical tool for EV charger deployment.”
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Catelyn Sweeney

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FERC Order 2222: Can a Good Order Solve It?

DERs and Data Centers

“FERC Order 2222 required RTOs and ISOs to open wholesale markets to aggregated distributed energy resources. The objective was straightforward: allow flexible, distributed resources to compete alongside traditional capacity and reduce pressure on the system. The results, however, were limited.”
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Margarita Patria and Dmitry Balashov

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