Reconductoring with High-Performance Conductors: “In 2024, Salt River Project completed an eight-and-a-half mile advanced reconductoring project in Phoenix. The project allowed SRP to maintain the fifty-year remaining service life of existing structures while reducing outage-related expenses and still achieving the significant capacity increase needed for growing demand.”

“Why would developers pursue sites they may never build on? The answer lies in how this market operates.”

“Rate design decisions influence customer behavior, utility revenue stability, and the perception of fairness. Getting it right is about more than economics; it’s about aligning public service with utility realities.”

“Recent orders aim to permanently reduce energy consumption for homes and businesses, while lowering overall system costs.”

"Can we design rates in a way that allocates this higher cost of capital to the class that caused it — a large load tariff design with an eleven percent ROR, and a residential tariff designed with a seven percent ROR, for example?”

“For states deep into load growth, and even for states not yet overwhelmed with new demand, it is worth considering the following policies as part of a sensible framework to facilitate economic growth while protecting customers and reliability in the near term.”

These two articles focus on load growth as both a challenge and opportunity for the continued evolution of the U.S. power sector. The series presents innovative solutions to meet this new era of load growth in a way that is more resilient, affordable, and clean.

“I have a deep appreciation and respect for the role that EEI plays in driving consensus and in shaping critical policy and regulatory discussions. Of course, our work extends beyond the policy and regulatory arenas.”

The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates gathered for its mid-year meeting in Columbus, where the organization was founded in 1979.

“The idea for NASUCA originated among consumer advocates attending the NARUC Annual Meeting located in Las Vegas in November 1977. A growing group of advocates recognized the need for their own organization, rather than hoping they ran into each other at NARUC each year.”