gridCONNEXT 2022 brought together a cross-section of experts from businesses, utilities, and government to explore grid innovations enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy.

This meeting's agenda with all 15 Commissioners was Addressing Regulatory Gaps/Challenges in Oversight of Transmission Development.

“It is time for a win for rural electric cooperative members nationwide who wish to pursue flexible, innovative energy solutions.”

“Utilities are uniquely positioned to bring together and advise all stakeholders to address the operational and technological challenges associated with installing a wide enough network of high-powered chargers for commercial vehicles.”

“We force device makers to interoperate and work within a heterogenous network. That’s not easy to do. We authenticate and provide means to certify the device. In that way, JERA and other companies we work with are immune to vendor lock.”

Panels about North America’s transition toward net zero were jam-packed with execs who each individually and certainly in aggregate can move the needle to combat climate change.

“The Allam-Fetvedt Cycle is a new type of power cycle that takes a novel approach to emissions reduction. It uses the oxy-combustion of carbon fuels and a high-pressure supercritical carbon dioxide working fluid in a highly recuperated cycle that captures all emissions by design.”

“The engine power plants we produce do balancing service well. We can start and respond to real-time price signals or real-time dispatches from a system operator or utility. As soon as they’re ready to drop us offline, we go away. If the wind or the sun changes five minutes later, we can do the same all over.”

“If you’re talking about small modular nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture, water, or wastewater, there are technologies we’re trying to deploy to help scale so we can bring those cost curves down, which is how the transition will ultimately happen.”

“There’s a large opportunity to capture off these gas fired power plants and sequester them underground. It also can be other sources like direct air capture or hydrogen production, renewable diesel, all sorts of sources that need to take the carbon dioxide out of the process and store it underground.”