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Chris Brown: Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Mississippi PSC

“SEARUC will focus on promoting best practices, improving efficiency, reducing regulatory burdens where appropriate, and strengthening the financial prudence of utility operations, all with the goal of delivering value to the consumer.”

Byline:

Chris Brown with Paul Kjellander

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Phil Bartlett: New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners

Maine PUC

“One of the big issues we’ve been struggling with for a long time is that we are constrained in terms of natural gas pipelines coming into the region. That puts us at risk, particularly during winter months when gas gets prioritized for home heating, and there’s limited ability to bring in more gas to meet peak demand.”

Byline:

Phil Bartlett with Paul Kjellander

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Patrick O'Connell: Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners

New Mexico PRC

“The Western Conference is also initiating a Commissioner-only meeting. Other regions have done that, and it might be the first one in recorded memory for the WCPS. We’re all looking forward to getting together in Scottsdale Arizona this fall and working through issues.”

Byline:

Patrick O’Connell with Paul Kjellander

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Jehmal Hudson: Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioner

Virginia SCC

“Collaboration is one of the highest priorities. MACRUC has certainly served as an essential platform for collaboration by providing opportunities for Mid-Atlantic regulators to come together and address the regional challenges we face collectively. By sharing practices, we enhance regulatory effectiveness.”

Byline:

Jehmal Hudson with Paul Kjellander

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Sarah Freeman: Mid-America Regulatory Conference

Indiana URC

“I’ll always promote the amazing educational programming at NARUC, and we’re fortunate to be members and to avail ourselves of that content. But for the smaller regions, we’re better able to tailor education to meet the needs of our states, which do differ, to a degree, across the country.”

Byline:

Sarah Freeman with Paul Kjellander

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Commissioners at the Regional Conferences

Unique conversations

Conversations with Indiana URC Commissioner Sarah Freeman, Virginia SCC Commissioner Jehmal Hudson, New Mexico PRC Chair Patrick O’Connell, Maine PUC Chair Phil Bartlett, and Mississippi PSC Chair Chris Brown with Paul Kjellander on the MARC, MACRUC, WCPSC, NECPUC, and SEARUC conferences.

Byline:

PUF

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Resilience, Demand Growth, and More

Entergy and PwC

“Utilities are focused on making sure they can meet the growth, but we’re also seeing the impact of continued weather events, extreme climate events that require a resilient, reliable grid. We have not seen a stop of those investments from a grid-modernization, grid-reliability perspective.”

Byline:

Drew Marsh and Earl Simpkins

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Edison Congress in Rhyme

I Mean, It was Quite a Scene

Each spring the industry’s leaders convene To talk about maintaining a grid That is reliable, affordable, and clean.

Byline:

Steve Mitnick

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Brain Capital and the Future Energy Workforce

A Unique Set of Challenges

Electric companies work diligently to ensure that they have the dedicated and passionate workforce needed to meet the opportunities and challenges that our industry faces. These challenges include rapidly rising demand for electricity, increasing frequency of extreme weather events, and rapid technological advances that are changing how we do business and how our customers use electricity.

Byline:

Lawrence Jones

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