Accenture's report “The Role of Storage in the Path to Net Zero”: “We make a case for storage and you can see the impact it can have on whole system costs, if the costs fall and solar costs fall with it, as per current trajectory. It looks good, but the costs are still high.”

A conversation about this new report with its author, the Director of the NARUC’s National Regulatory Research Institute.

PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick discussed his book, Lewis Latimer, The First Hidden Figure, with NRRI Director Carl Pechman and an esteemed panel. The book is part of a larger activity to build diversity in the electric industry, with profits helping establish the PUF Latimer Scholarship Fund administered by the American Association of Blacks in Energy.

Is green hydrogen going to be hype or the decarbonization answer? Panelists were led by NARUC President Paul Kjellander to close out the conference. Enjoy these excerpts.

NARUC's committee representatives discussed the most important issues facing State Commissions. What would they say to the new administration about priorities? How can the feds best work with states to achieve goals? What's uppermost on the minds of State Commissioners who also lead NARUC's standing committees? The panel was facilitated by NARUC's 2nd Vice President, Michael Caron.

The Keynote speaker at Wednesday's general session was Rep. Michael (Mike) Simpson (R-ID), House Appropriations Committee, Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and member Interior and Environment Subcommittee. Simpson engaged in a lively Q&A session with NARUC President Paul Kjellander.

This session was co-sponsored by the Committee on Electricity and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and co-moderated by Commissioners Andrew French, Kansas CC, and Jehmal Hudson, Virginia SCC.

This joint meeting combined the Committee on Electricity with the Committee on Critical Infrastructure to examine how advanced technologies for infrastructure resiliency and vegetation management can help utilities face natural disasters from wildfires to winter storms.

This session focused on FERC Order 2222 and state commission issues such as interconnection requirements, coordination, and retail DER programs.

Some of what we heard at February’s conference.