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Moderator Sheryl Riggs is the CEO of the Utilities Technology Council. Scott Jennings is SVP Corporate Planning and Utility Finance at PSEG. Janisse Quiñones is SVP Gas Engineering at Pacific Gas and Electric. Clift Pompée is Managing Director of Generation Technology at Duke Energy.
The American Association of Blacks in Energy held its Fall Policy Summit 2021: Promoting and Advancing Communities of Color Through Inclusive Energy Policy, October 19-20, 2021. The PUF team was there at this virtual event with its outstanding line-up of speakers and panelists.
With the new energy reforms on the horizon, how should the energy and utilities industry optimize growth in the clean energy sector? This panel took on those issues in a discussion on how to optimize and achieve growth in the midst of climate change and new policies. How are those policies being implemented at a business operations level to increase growth and return on investment? Enjoy these excerpts.
Moderator and CEO, Utilities Technology Council, Sheryl Riggs: The effects of climate change can sometimes cost utilities and ratepayers billions of dollars. Utilities are studying ways toward a stronger, more resilient electricity grid but also must comply with federal and state mandates to reduce fossil-based generation.
Who is paying for the decommissioning of the embedded fossil-based generation and to raise capital to invest in clean, renewable energy systems, and are there rate base effects?