Managing Utility Reliability and Service Through a Public Crisis
Burns & McDonnell
Companies say their most valuable resource is their people, but the pandemic has complicated utilities’ abilities to access that resource.
Pandemic Generates New Challenges, New Solutions
Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell discuss opportunities to help electric utilities provide the safe and reliable power customers expect.
Global Challenges of Implementing Cybersecurity Standards
New USAID-NARUC Cyber Guide
By increasing collaboration, regulators are bolstering security and resilience of electric and gas sectors around the world.
Addressing Solar and Wind Tax Problems
Eversheds Sutherland
How do you treat excess deferred taxes? Congress explained it, but there are disputes at the state level, and FERC has its own issue, which is related.
Utility Transformation in the Age of Resiliency, Business Continuity, Gray Rhinos
Decentralization, Digitization, and Decarbonization
The future belongs to full-service providers that orchestrate an ever more complex, clean, distributed, mobile, and intelligent energy system.
Working to Secure Our Electricity Grid
Standards, Information Sharing, and Partnerships
NERC is interested in sharing how adversaries seek to do harm. At the centerpiece of this effort is NERC’s Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
FERC Formula Rate Resurgence
Transmission Cost Recovery Revisited
Utilities relying on stated rates during a transmission buildout phase are leaving money on the table.
Idaho PUC: Don Howell
Former Chief Deputy Attorney General
The General Counsel has to feel comfortable in that they have to tell the Commissioner sometimes bad news or what the law is in certain areas.
Idaho PUC: Marsha Smith
Former Commissioner and NARUC President
Staff is critically important, because Commissioners have to decide on a number of issues spanning all of the utilities, and Staff can be specialized and concentrate.
Idaho PUC: Diane Hanian and Adam Rush
Commission Secretary, Public Information Officer
The teleconference system’s a priority that’s got a lot of potential, especially with our audio video system that they built into our main hearing room.