Law & Lawyers

State Utility Regulation: Kumar Barve

Maryland PSC

“The big concern in PJM is that Maryland is a relatively small state. We can have strict regulations that are pro-consumer. But if an adjoining state decides to negotiate badly, those embedded costs could end up in the grid, and we end up paying for it.”

Byline:

Kumar Barve with Paul Kjellander

Read Entire Article

State Utility Regulation: Jeremy McDiarmid

Massachusetts DPU

“We want to make sure we’re extracting as much value out of the existing system as possible, so we expect to open a docket on time-varying rates for electric customers. We’re also looking at flexible interconnection.”

Byline:

Jeremy McDiarmid with Paul Kjellander

Read Entire Article

Preparation, Not Prediction: What Recent Threat Activity Means for Electric Utilities

Dragos

“For utility leaders, cyber risk is increasingly intertwined with how we operate, manage, and restore the grid. This evolution has implications for how utilities should think about preparedness, resilience, and leadership.”

Byline:

Kristine Marz

Read Entire Article

A Technology-Based Solution to the Technology-Based Growth Challenge

Improving Energy Storage Resources Modeling

“In this article we examine how improved energy storage resources modeling can help planners address load growth while making fuller use of existing storage in resource-adequacy planning.”

Byline:

Charles Yeung, Todd Strauss, and David Owens

Read Entire Article

Bringing Long Duration Energy Storage into Focus for 2026, Part Two

Market Mechanisms for LDES Investment

“LDES has been slow to gain market traction and is still seen as a relatively high-risk investment. Significant barriers to capital investment in LDES technologies remain, hence the persistence of high-cost curves and lagging commercialization.”

Byline:

Noah Podolefsky and Molly Podolefsky

Read Entire Article

Regulatory Future Shock: XBRL and Data-Driven Approach to Utility Governance and Oversight

GDS Associates & Penn. PUC

“State commissions battle information overload. An effective path forward would be design and adoption of a jurisdiction-aware XBRL taxonomy to transform the tsunami of filings into structured, comparable information while improving auditability and comparability across jurisdictions.”

Byline:

Danny Kermode and Kelly Monaghan

Read Entire Article

Understanding Water

Tap or Bottled, Know Your Facts

“Most tap water systems are tested daily and often more frequently, using independent labs — not like bottled water, submitting to just an annual independent plant inspection. A lot can happen during the other 364 days of the year.”

Byline:

Mary-Anna Holden and Butch Howard

Read Entire Article

2026 C3E Symposium: Powering Our Future In Tempe

Energy Scenes

Tempe, Arizona, was the place to be this April as the energy industry’s brightest minds gathered for the C3E Symposium at ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory. C3E promotes leadership that sparks innovation by recognizing the pioneers and emerging leaders whose work advances the future of American energy.

Byline:

PUF

Read Entire Article

AABE and Hispanics in Energy Gathered in April

Energy Scenes

It was a busy week for the industry with major events in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. The American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) hosted its 49th National Conference from April 12-15th in the Big Easy. Meanwhile, on April 14th, Hispanics in Energy held its Legislative Summit in our nation’s capital to advocate for key policy priorities.

Byline:

PUF

Read Entire Article

Data Centers, Load Growth, and the New Rules of Engagement

Tracking the Evolution

SEPA is tracking this evolution through our Database of Emerging Large Load Tariffs (DELTa), developed with the NC Clean Energy Technology Center. Today, DELTa includes more than 77 tariffs across 36 states – nearly all developed in just the past two years.

Byline:

Sheri Givens

Read Entire Article

Search form

Law & Lawyers