“It’s exciting to see customers who could not afford full facility, backup generation, in particular some nursing homes and medical facilities that may have only had backup generation for certain emergency pieces of equipment, now can operate during a major disaster.”

“It’s emulators or simulators that enable us to deploy some tactics, techniques, and procedures that adversaries use. It emulates that in terms of how far it could have gone, where would it have been stopped, where would we have observed it, where would we have been able to stop it, even if manually, but time to detection is the primary focus.”

Conversations with more of this year’s winning teams from Ameren, Entergy with Enchanted Rock, Ontario Power Generation, and PG&E.

“In terms of energy consumption, I’m one of the largest customers in the U.S. I would like utilities to think of me as a partner in business, because I have several special authorities given by Congress that allow me to utilize my resources to help deliver these results, but in a business-like way.”

“My passion for these issues has grown over the course of the year, as has my belief that my experience as a state regulator is going to be valuable in Congress and the House. I’m excited to offer the perspective of a state regulator and to elevate the need to listen to state regulators and industry experts on matters of consequential energy policy.”

A conversation with Ameren CEO Marty Lyons, PUF’s Steve Mitnick, and Guidehouse’s Steve Waller.

Is the value proposition for all utility customers the same? A high-income household may expend one percent or even less of its total expenditures on electricity, whereas a low-income household may expend three or four percent, or even more.

“With the right policy and market development framework in place, regulators have an opportunity to accelerate the deployment of VPPs, improve grid reliability, reduce rate pressure on consumers, and make progress on decarbonization.”