September 30, 2024

Conference Coverage

WIRES
Panel Says Transmission Spending Can Fix Economy, Fight Climate Change
Building new transmission could help the economy recover from the pandemic and help fight climate change, according to a panel at the WIRES Summer Meeting.
SEPA
SRP Details Stakeholder Engagement Strategy to Accelerate Carbon Reduction
SRP's Marc Campell discussed how the Arizona utility identified stakeholders to help it electrify transportation during SEPA's Grid Evolution Summit.
SEPA
Collaboration, Cultural Shift Key to Utility Transformation
Decarbonizing the U.S. grid will also mean overcoming communities’ aesthetic objections to large projects, Seattle City Light CEO Debra Smith told SEPA.
ChargePoint
Why Utilities are Externalizing Innovation to Accelerate Clean Tech
For one clean-tech startup, participating in a utility-related accelerator program provides an opportunity to get feedback from its target customers.
Shutterstock
Fleet Electrification Will Require Smart Grid Technologies
The electrification of trucking fleets will require utilities to adopt smart grid technologies and design new rates, panelists said during a SEPA panel.
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Overheard at NARUC Summer Policy Summit 2021
More than 600 people attended the NARUC Summer Policy Summit in person and hundreds more watched via livestream.
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Glick Works to Strengthen Relationship with NARUC
FERC Chair Richard Glick is seeking ‘peace, love and understanding’ with state regulators as work on easing transmission issues begins.
Berkeley Lab
Solar Surpasses Wind in MISO, SPP Queues
Solar has overtaken wind in the interconnection queues of MISO and SPP as declining PV costs make solar attractive even in wind belt states.
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Overheard at MACRUC 2021: Pandemic Hardships
For the first time in more than a year, regulators from PJM and NYISO joined in person for the MACRUC annual Education Conference.
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PJM, States Discuss Challenges of Transmission Planning at MACRUC
PJM and other RTOs are seeing a “very dynamic” transmission system as older generation retires and a whole new class of generation comes online.

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