By Lauren Kalinosky, AAE Fellow
When resilience planning, utilities use modeling information about future weather conditions in the areas they serve, looking at a range of different possibilities, including worst-case scenarios. Climate change is already increasing costs for electric customers significantly, a reality we’re facing in Louisiana.
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The Chair and Vice Chair positions will lead the LPSC meetings and represent the LPSC for 2024, while the Representatives for OMS, ERSC, and SPP will represent the LPSC in those respective policy tables. When it comes to OMS, ERSC and SPP we’ll need a Commissioner that understands the value of transmission.
By Jessica Hendricks, AAE's State Policy Director
Turns out, Louisiana’s electric utility grid needs to step it up to address resilience and reliability, yet untangling the two has become a bit messy.
By Constantine Gonatas, AAE Consultant & Jessica Hendricks, AAE's State Policy Director
By Jessica Hendricks, AAE's State Policy Director
Verdant is a microgrid company with no existing ties to LA. Ingevity and Verdant teamed up and drafted a plan whereby Verdant would build a microgrid, consisting of 1000 kW of solar, 2000kW of Combined Heat & Power (CHP) and a heat recovery steam generator (“HRSG”) on Ingevity owned property. Verdant would then sell the power solely to Ingevity, and Ingevity would continue to rely on Cleco Power for 10-20% of its electric load.
By Brenna Landis, JD Candidate, Class of 2023, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
We were honored to have Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis and State Representative Matthew Willard join as special guests. The dialogue focused on the Securitization Act, which allows utilities to purchase securities (basically loans) to repair infrastructure damaged by storms, and to pass those repair costs onto ratepayers.
By Jessica Hendricks, AAE's State Policy Director
But supporters also hope to cut electricity bills throughout the year and to transform community groups like churches into disaster responders.
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