The National Standard Practice Manual for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources offers regulators and others a set of fundamental principles that can guide decisions about how to conduct BCAs and which cost tests to use in their jurisdiction.

“Pre-Order 1000, there was a fair amount of regional transmission development, and the most prominent examples are MISO MVPs, CapX2020, Balanced Portfolio in SPP. Those continue to provide massive benefits to customers. It makes a strong case for policymakers to say, ‘it’s time to go back to the federal right of first refusal.’”

“Green hydrogen is exciting because it gets to that storage issue in terms of potentially having ability to store excess renewable energy from sources like solar and wind for electricity.”

Conversations with DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Director, Brian Anderson, NETL’s Jessica Mullen, and Kansas Geological Survey’s Franek Hasiuk.

“As difficult as it might seem to build a nuclear power plant, building multi-state transmission has proven more difficult. The Princeton study shows need for 3 or 4 times as much new transmission capacity added if you do the whole job with just renewables versus firm clean generation from things like nuclear.”

“There was a 2.5% rate decrease in our last rate case on the power side. Business is promising. I wouldn’t be surprised if we can manage our rates at least flat or in the zone of keeping them flat, this upcoming rate case.”

PPL Electric Utilities wins the President’s Award. The Achievement Awards go to PPL Electric Utilities, Florida Power & Light in two different areas, Con Edison, Southern California Edison, and Eversource.

“The main part of my team’s work is in this vulnerability assessment of the T&D system. We also have been playing an important role in helping the climate scientists understand what we will use the data for so they can provide the best climate data for each T&D application.”

“As regulators see these results coming out and are making decisions, it’s our aim that by creating a consistent, replicable methodology, they can have comfort and understanding that this approach is scientifically and technically defensible. It is a well-informed approach to thinking about vulnerability and response prioritization.”

“We’re dealing with heat waves and droughts in Europe. That means a significant reduction of available capacity of nuclear and hydropower. Hydropower because water has evaporated behind the dam, and nuclear because water is getting too warm to be used in cooling.”