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Host:
Todd Snitchler, President and CEO, Electric Power Supply Association
Guests:
Dan Dolan, President, New England Power Generators Association
Gavin Donohue, President and CEO, Independent Power Producers of New York
Scott Miller, Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum
Michele Richmond, Executive Director, Texas Competitive Power Advocates
Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director, Independent Energy Producers Association
Glen Thomas, President, PJM Power Providers Group
To wrap another year of Energy Solutions, we brought together six leaders representing competitive power suppliers across the nation for a meeting of the minds discussing power system highlights and top issues and concerns from the past year – and their expert predictions for what 2024 will bring. Listen in to hear what these top competitive power organization leaders have to say about energy, the challenges posed by emissions reductions targets, how best to reduce costs and drive an energy expansion to meet rising demand and enhance reliability – and of course, their favorite holiday movie.
“I think that we’re about to have a national reckoning here in terms of what we’re trying to accomplish. …Our industry… depends on reliability, affordability, and clean energy. That’s the direction things are headed. And how you balance those three and particularly in transition is a huge undertaking.”
JAN SMUTNY-JONES, Executive Director, Independent Energy Producers Association
“Today in New York City, the system is run on oil and gas… And the state of New York is having a very difficult time grappling with what is going to ultimately replace natural gas… We haven’t even identified the technology. We don’t know if it’s affordable and we don’t know if it will be available […] You can’t just legislate something, not have any money to pay for it, and then not identify what’s going to replace what we have.”
GAVIN DONAHUE, President and CEO, Independent Power Producers of New York
“How do we ensure we create a financeable base both to drive the tens of billions of dollars of new clean energy that are going to be necessary to meet our electrified economic future while also supporting so many of the existing assets, both clean and conventional, that are going to continue to be needed to maintain that reliability and affordability component?”
DAN DOLAN, President, New England Power Generators’ Association
“Reliability and affordability have to be part of the conversation. And I take comfort that they’re becoming increasingly part of the conversation in? PJM and hopefully that will lead to better policies going forward here at the state level.”
GLEN THOMAS, President, PJM Power Providers Group
“One of the big questions here is … what does this market look like? …We’re still in implementation mode… I don’t think that anybody has a very clear picture right now of how those puzzle pieces fit together… So we’re grappling with that at the same time that we have had a huge demand growth in ERCOT over the past several years.”
MICHELE RICHMOND, Executive Director, Texas Competitive Power Advocates
“As we go through these market design issues where we’re finally getting around to sharing resources the way that RTOs have in the East, we still have to figure out how we’re going to [keep] the dispatchable resources around.”
SCOTT MILLER, Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum
Producer, Audio Editor: Christina Nyquist, senior director, communications, Electric Power Supply Association
Production Associate: Frances Owen, communications associate, Electric Power Supply Association
