Pictured: CTC Global’s Andrea Sorrell with North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak, the new President of NARUC
CTC Global was proud to co-sponsor and attend the 2023 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference, “Connecting the Dots – Innovative / Disruptive Technology and Regulation” held at the La Quinta Resort last month in California. CTC Global’s Peter Brehm, Anne McDowell, and Andrea Sorrell attended several working group sessions, met with a number of attendees and were on hand to answer questions about ways CTC Global’s ACCC® Conductor is being used to improve the efficiency, capacity, reliability, and resilience of the electric power grid in the U.S. and several other countries.
One panel session in particular, “Building the Line in Time: Reimagining Transmission Development Processes”, moderated by Hon. Dan Scripps, Michigan, that included panelists Annie Levenson-Falk, Executive Director, Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota; Neil Millar, Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Planning, CAISO; Shashank Sane, Executive Vice President, Transmission, Invenergy; and Kamran Ali, Vice President, Transmission and Telecom Planning, AEP discussed new opportunities to plan and build transmission to bring new resources online quickly and cost-effectively, including how state agencies can work together with ISOs and others to tighten the linkages between resource planning, transmission planning, resource procurement, and interconnection. The panel also explored the benefits and drawbacks to interstate versus local transmission solutions and how these solutions play a role in facilitating the energy transition.
Meeting Link: https://www.naruc.org/meetings-and-events/naruc-annual-meetings/2023-annual-meeting/
