“If the utilities that own the current assets and their operational experts who understand how the grid works don’t become better educators and storytellers about the technical needs of grid transformation, then they risk future misalignment of business and regulatory models that could negatively impact operations and financial stability.”

“Building on the momentum of COP28, we expect 2024 to be a year where businesses and governments continue to lean in on deploying clean energy technologies. In the U.S., we continue to support siting and permitting reform and the buildout of transmission to support the deployment of clean energy.”

“There are companies that are consistent and dedicated to reliability, and it shows. It comes out in the consistency of the improvement in their performance. That is what we’ve been talking about. You have to keep getting better.”

“Managed services, especially in back-office functions like finance, procurement, tax and cyber, can help utilities drive innovation and reshape spending to better manage through the energy transition.”

Moderated by POWER Engineers Chief Digital Officer Nathan Bingham, this panel featured National Grid Principal Analyst for Clean Energy Development Gideon Katsh, PXiSE CEO Tim Allen, Avista Utilities Director of Avista Innovation Lab John Gibson, and Landis+Gyr Director of Regulatory Affairs and Industry Relations Marguerite Behringer.

“State-level regulators across the country do not currently have a shared understanding of what they would need to do differently to ensure that disadvantaged communities have a meaningful opportunity to be heard in decision-making processes and help shape better outcomes.”

From the Large Public Power Council’s “Power Shift” meeting on Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill, excerpts of remarks by U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Omaha Public Power District CEO Javier Fernandez, LPPC Chair & Long Island Power Authority CEO Tom Falcone, and United States Energy Association CEO Mark Menezes.

“The majority of organizations are still in the early stages of fleet electrification and have either not yet started the process or are less than a quarter of the way through.”

“By the end of this decade, we’ll be 89% decarbonized for our Colorado consumers from a 2005 baseline. Across all four states we will be 70% clean energy consumed by the end of the decade.”

“The idea is that you can’t go and make a wholesale change of all that infrastructure, without figuring out how to run your business more effectively and efficiently. In all those areas, we’re using AI to help us drive that transformation and help us better inform where we’re going.”