Strategy & Planning

“A significant milestone in Powell’s journey was the development of RAMP, a tool that provides next-day intelligence on outages. By integrating AI, RAMP anticipates common queries and delivers insights that were previously labor-intensive to obtain.”

“While the nation has been focused on an energy crisis triggered by unprecedented new additional load being added to the electrical grid from data center demand, scarcely anyone is focused on the related competition for water.”

“While state procurement could be a useful price hedge for customers, it’s an open question how much it helps reliability if PJM is still in the role of meeting the reserve margin through its capacity auction.”

“Our new resource stack includes power purchase agreements, solar projects of our own, and what I believe is the largest distributed battery array in the country. We have deployed batteries across nine substations, ranging from 8 MW up to 33 MW.”

“General Nakasone, Chris Wray, and Rob Lee are all on the record. Tom Fanning has been at the vanguard within the utility sector. Bill Fehrman was also on record often. That really was the brain trust.”

“We have a lot of interest in data centers coming to West Virginia. Our legislature just passed the governor’s microgrid bill, which allows for new generation behind the meter with minimum regulation. But also, if the developer chooses, projects can connect to the utility.”

“This innovation allows us to move from reactive response to proactive prediction and prevention, safeguarding our communities, environment, and critical infrastructure that powers our lives. It’s a model for the nation.”

“Part of that planning is understanding the reliability impacts of future resource mixes. We want to make sure the plan we build is going to be reliable under a wide range of conditions the system might face.”

“The acquisition of Rayburn Energy Station marked our first major step into local, dispatchable natural gas generation, and the planned RES II expansion builds on that. These projects redefine what it means for a G&T cooperative to lead through reliability investment.”

“It’s been rewarding, seeing how the work in energy efficiency and in demand-side management is contributing to keeping the lights on in Ontario when grid demand is high.”