“The DCAT tool gives a better way of looking at extreme events, so designers and system operators can plan systems that’ll be more robust against a tougher set of threats.”

“Transmission projects and especially groups of projects yield multiple value streams, but there is a tendency to group in traditional buckets of economic benefits, reliability benefits, and policy-driven benefits. What does it take to build our grid of the future?”

“DOE is looking at a larger objective, which is how we can more effectively serve the entire Eastern Interconnection. That is a different starting place for planning, and likely will produce different transmission planning projects. EIPC is a good clearinghouse for that.”

U of Missouri’s Financial Research Institute held a two-part webinar on Optimal Transmission Planning and Development for 2022 and Beyond.

Keystone Policy Center and Dentons hosted conversations with Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley, Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz, CPS Energy general counsel and board secretary Shanna Ramirez, Dentons’ Allison Bender.

“The SEC believes climate-change risk information is important to investors, who are increasingly relying on disclosures companies have been voluntarily publishing through corporate sustainability reports, or through EEI and AGA ESG reporting templates.”

“More climate change is projected, and the industry needs to plan for it. Our work helps understand the risks driven by climate change and other factors, such as evolving local economies and development trends, technologies, and markets.”

“This smarter grid allows us to have real-time information on where issues are on the system. Remote switches allow the system operator to sectionalize and reconfigure the grid in order to work around trouble spots.”

“If you entrusted me to protect your valuables, and the best I could do is tell you when they were stolen, you wouldn’t accept that.”

“Last November, my fellow Commissioners and I revised the rules to provide public access to renewable contract terms 18 months after the CPUC approves investor-owned-utility contracts (or 18 months after execution of contracts by other providers whose contracts do not require CPUC approval).”