Extraordinary Careers: Branko Terzic

FERC, Wisconsin PSC

“I said, ‘Let’s put them all into one mega-notice of proposed rulemaking and do one large integrated package.’ Out of that came Order 636, which unbundled the natural gas industry, restructured it, introduced new straight variable rate design, capacity release, and packages that made our natural gas pipeline industry more efficient than ever.”

Big Breakthrough in Transmission Transfer Capacity

TS Conductor

“The average wait for renewable farms, such as solar or wind farms to connect to the grid is 3.5 years. We can instantly change that just by swapping out the old conductors one-for-one with the TS conductor, as you can easily double, triple the capacity in the grid.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big: John Marshall

Potential Energy Coalition

“We have to get our heads around the fact that the world wants new nuclear. Our best communications advice would be that there is breakthrough technology that secures our future. It’s innovative, it’s clean, it’s abundant, it’s advantageous.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big: Jim Schaefer

Guggenheim Securities

“If you’re on the regulatory side, lean into this. If you’re on the deployment side of government capital, lean into this. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs, American technology, and supporting a network globally that gets us to 100% clean.”

Small Nuclear Getting Big: Julie Kozeracki

DOE

“I am so tired of people asking me how we’re going to solve the financing problem in nuclear. I have 300 billion in loans that nobody wants because we don’t have projects to finance. I need utilities to place orders for reactors, and I am happy to give them low-cost loans to finance that development.”