Strategy & Planning

“We are seeing lead times of up to a year for critical materials such as transformers, meter sockets, wire, and some hardware, with some lead times on other non-critical material reaching 70 weeks. This requires our salespeople to engage with customers in planning ahead and ordering early.”

“Direct Pay could be transformational for electric cooperatives and give them the opportunity to make significant investments in these emerging technologies.”

Russia’s brutal aggression has reversed German attitudes and policy perhaps. Germans are increasingly realizing that they must balance the transformation to net zero with the other imperatives of energy systems, those being reliability, affordability, and national security.

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies’ Leadership has reached out to encourage utilities to sign up to use the Mutual Assistance Resource Coordination software tool. There are eight utilities ready to utilize MARC once it’s rolled out to production this year.

“How can investments in resiliency improve a utility’s ESG score, and potentially, how could undergrounding current overhead T&D lines improve ESG?”

“I don’t talk about transportation electrification. I talk about electrification of mobility. Because it’s not just cars. It’s airplanes, it’s scooters. In Norway, you have ships being electrified.”

“We’ve cut over $900 million of costs out of our business over the last eight years to be able to go that long without a rate conversation. We had to come forward.”

“We just announced a second of two rate decreases. We’re having rate decreases, and that’s a rare thing in the industry these days, to be able to announce an energy transformation of this magnitude, while reducing costs.”

“Chair Marissa Gillett reported that the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has been working closely with utilities and stakeholders to create options regarding how utilities construct a reliability and resilience portfolio.”

NERC CEO Jim Robb and ReliabilityFirst CEO Tim Gallagher appear on “reliability issues and the transforming grid: a regional focus.”