This talk addressed equity and environmental issues for impacted communities, plus how industry and utilities can help communities adapt to rapid changes.

EPRI looks at updating the grid for an electrified economy and solving the most difficult decarbonization challenges, with unprecedented resiliency for everyone.

In-Person at the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Commissioners’ Annual Conference.

“Valuations have held up very well in contrast to what was an initial concern as we entered the pandemic that they would be hit much harder.”

Ameren’s fire protection engineer: The goal is for the employees to be trained, so they can address a fire in what we call an incipient phase, where they’re very small fires.

“The state’s greenhouse gas policies are going to be coming more into effect soon in terms of their impact to the gas grid.”

“The Transportation Division enforces the regulations of the PSC pertaining to the safety, rates, and service of passenger-for-hire transportation companies, operating in intrastate commerce.”

“We’ve recently allowed multi-year rate plans. Now we’re also focusing on the forecasting methods the utilities use because forecasting’s become a major component of the multi-year rate plan.”

“We had a number of impacts due to COVID-19. The primary impact was that electric and gas utilities requested to have stays of enforcement or basically, regulatory relief.”

“I’m mainly responsible for the regulatory process, which are the filings that come into the Technical Staff group from utility companies and others.”