Enhancing grid resilience is a priority for America’s electric companies, which are making significant investments each year to harden the grid and to demonstrate and deploy grid-enhancing technologies that optimize grid operations, help prevent power outages, and enhance reliability.
On this episode, EEI Managing Director of Climate Programs and Executive Director of the Institute for the Energy Transition Eric Holdsworth; Dave Quier, PPL Electric’s vice president and chief operating officer; and Margie Sweezer-Fischer, vice president of operations for NextEra Energy Transmission, discuss grid-enhancing technologies, the role they play in enhancing resilience, how electric companies work with regulators to help define the customer benefits of adopting these technologies, and more.