People In Power

New York's Clean Energy Future

A Strategic Investment

“The energy efficiency and building electrification portfolio stands apart not only in scope but in complexity. It spans technologies, sectors, and customer needs, making it one of the most challenging – but also most rewarding – areas of NYSPSC oversight.”

What They Heard and Learned at Accenture IUEC

Exelon, Accenture

“We’re seeing annual growth rates of between 13-16% nationally from data center power year-over-year between now and the year 2030. Data centers constituted about 5% of total U.S. demand in 2024, for comparison. That’ll increase to between 16-23% percent by 2033.”

PUF Chats: Joe Purington

AVANGRID

“We’re fortunate being a global company on the supply chain side. Being part of the Iberdrola family in AVANGRID, it speeds up our wait time to 2 to 3 years. Where we had impacts from COVID in the U.S. on distribution transformers, we were able to take manufacturing slots from Brazil.”

PUF Chats: Chris O'Shea

Centrica

“If we build an energy system which nobody can afford, we’ll have failed. If we build an energy system which is clean but not reliable, we’ll have failed. If we continue using unabated fossil fuels, we’ll have failed. The answer is somewhere in the middle of these three, and we’ve got to have a properly informed debate.”

PUF Chats: Calvin Butler

Exelon, EEI

“I see my leadership at Exelon and my leadership at EEI as perfect matches in terms of what we’re doing. Because if I lead with my customer, I lead with reliability, resiliency, security, and affordability. Those issues permeate all our organizations.”

Role of the States in the Energy Transition

Calif. Energy Commission

“The State Energy Offices are most easily characterized as the energy policy arm of the governor of each state. They’re diverse. Sometimes they’re stand-alone agencies or located in a Department of Commerce. We are located within the California Natural Resources Agency.”

Resilience, Demand Growth, and More

Evergy

“Evergy’s strategic tenets are affordability, reliability, and sustainability. If you ever put too much emphasis on one of those tenets at the expense of the others, you’ll get out of balance and run into trouble. Out of balance inevitably creates issues with key constituents.”

New Commissioner Regulatory Orientation

NARUC

“Orientation offers new Commissioners the chance to learn directly from peers, understand the legal and policy frameworks that will help shape their work, and most importantly, build relationships that will last throughout their careers.“

Chairs Council Conference

NARUC

“As a former Commission Chair, I recognized quickly that there is a whole host of managing and operating at any Commission that falls outside the ordinary daily responsibilities of regulating.”