EPRI Board: Matthew Ketschke
Director
“Our collaboration with EPRI has produced great breakthroughs.”
Fortnightly Magazine - June 2022
NW Natural Water in New Waters
Unique Conversations
“The water and wastewater utility industry is similar to the gas utility industry. We’ve been successful in core competencies building and operating pressurized pipe, delivering a product underground, and working in a highly-regulated environment.”
Vice President of Big Sky's Commission
Montana PSC
“The western region is 5 to 7 years away from a serious capacity shortfall. The major utility in Montana is predicting a 750-MW shortfall in capacity within 5 or 7 years, unless we come up with additional baseload generation.”
CEOs From Across the Globe at Global Electrification Forum
EEI
Attendees from around the world were online watching the Edison Electric Institute's 6th Annual Global Electrification Forum.
GEF: Sustainable Business Models
EEI
“We have to do this grand transition in a period of extreme turbulence. COVID, climate, and conflict contributing to a cost-of-living crisis. We have decentralization, decarbonization, digitalization, diversity in energy, and demand-side disruption.”
GEF: CEO Leadership Dialogue
EEI
“We’re seeing an appreciation by our customers to vary their load, from some of the largest industrial customers to mid-size businesses, cold-storage facilities, many others, where they can shift the times of use of their energy. They like the economic benefits.”
GEF: Leading the Change
EEI
“Inflation, supply chains disrupted, and the Ukraine being invaded by Russia. We’re living this new normal on disruption, so much so that we have seen countries in Europe and others having underlying energy policies affected that are needed to get to net zero.”
GEF: Fireside Chat
EEI
“The EU, UK, Norway, and others surrounding Europe have to consider the whole security of supplies, also based on maybe not shutting down coal or all nuclear yet. We need to speed up power generation from new renewables.”
GEF: Expanding Transmission
EEI
“Electricity is bringing people together. Electricity is part of world peace and that is something we can all embrace.”
Canada's Utility Regulators Convene in Vancouver
CAMPUT
The British Columbia Utilities Commission hosted CAMPUT’s 2022 Annual Conference with the theme ‘Deep Dive into Disruption.’