Strategy & Planning

What are those barriers stifling certain energy technologies, what are their sources, and should current policies and regulations change to address them?

Is green hydrogen going to be hype or the decarbonization answer? Panelists were led by NARUC President Paul Kjellander to close out the conference. Enjoy these excerpts.

NARUC's committee representatives discussed the most important issues facing State Commissions. What would they say to the new administration about priorities? How can the feds best work with states to achieve goals? What's uppermost on the minds of State Commissioners who also lead NARUC's standing committees? The panel was facilitated by NARUC's 2nd Vice President, Michael Caron.

The Keynote speaker at Wednesday's general session was Rep. Michael (Mike) Simpson (R-ID), House Appropriations Committee, Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and member Interior and Environment Subcommittee. Simpson engaged in a lively Q&A session with NARUC President Paul Kjellander.

This session was co-sponsored by the Committee on Electricity and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and co-moderated by Commissioners Andrew French, Kansas CC, and Jehmal Hudson, Virginia SCC.

This joint meeting combined the Committee on Electricity with the Committee on Critical Infrastructure to examine how advanced technologies for infrastructure resiliency and vegetation management can help utilities face natural disasters from wildfires to winter storms.

This session focused on FERC Order 2222 and state commission issues such as interconnection requirements, coordination, and retail DER programs.

Some of what we heard at February’s conference.

“We have to increase efficiency and reduce price. Energy storage has come so far, particularly ion batteries, but we are students at CPS Energy. We’re students of innovation.”

Recent decades have seen a growing revolution in applications of DC in power systems, both for moving bulk power, but also to play a growing list of other roles. This is the first of four articles on the revolution in HVDC technology.