Tempe, Arizona, was the place to be this April as the energy industry’s brightest minds gathered for the C3E Symposium at ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory. C3E promotes leadership that sparks innovation by recognizing the pioneers and emerging leaders whose work advances the future of American energy.

“Most tap water systems are tested daily and often more frequently, using independent labs — not like bottled water, submitting to just an annual independent plant inspection. A lot can happen during the other 364 days of the year.”

“State commissions battle information overload. An effective path forward would be design and adoption of a jurisdiction-aware XBRL taxonomy to transform the tsunami of filings into structured, comparable information while improving auditability and comparability across jurisdictions.”

“LDES has been slow to gain market traction and is still seen as a relatively high-risk investment. Significant barriers to capital investment in LDES technologies remain, hence the persistence of high-cost curves and lagging commercialization.”

“In this article we examine how improved energy storage resources modeling can help planners address load growth while making fuller use of existing storage in resource-adequacy planning.”

“For utility leaders, cyber risk is increasingly intertwined with how we operate, manage, and restore the grid. This evolution has implications for how utilities should think about preparedness, resilience, and leadership.”

“We want to make sure we’re extracting as much value out of the existing system as possible, so we expect to open a docket on time-varying rates for electric customers. We’re also looking at flexible interconnection.”

“The big concern in PJM is that Maryland is a relatively small state. We can have strict regulations that are pro-consumer. But if an adjoining state decides to negotiate badly, those embedded costs could end up in the grid, and we end up paying for it.”

“When the PSC looks at large load customers, we want to ensure they pay their fair share, existing customers are protected from subsidizing speculative demand, and system reliability and transmission readiness are maintained.”

Conversations with Florida Chair Gabriella Passidomo Smith, Maryland Chair Kumar Barve, and Massachusetts Chair Jeremy McDiarmid with PUF Senior Advisor Paul Kjellander.