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Consultant: Utilities Should Avoid ‘Victim Mentality’ and Lead on DG

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FERC Ends Department of Energy’s Proposed Resilience Rule but Initiates a Resilience Proceeding of Its Own

On January 8, 2018, FERC terminated the proceeding initiated in September 2017 (Docket No. RM18-1-000) to address the proposed rule on grid reliability and resilience pricing (DOE NOPR). This article explores FERC's reasoning for declining the rule, FERC's own "holistic" resilience proceeding, the history of elevating grid resilience as a regulatory concern, and next steps.

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Stu Pearman, partner and energy practice leader at ScottMadden, was recently quoted in GenerationHub’s article “Consultant: Utilities should avoid ‘victim mentality’ and lead on DG.” To access the full article, please see below or visit here.

Mr. Pearman said, “Electric companies must avoid a “victim mentality” on distributed generation (DG) and embrace changes affecting the power sector. It’s our industry and we ought to be articulating the vision, for how DG will fit into the power business.”

This article references Mr. Pearman’s presentation at PennWell’s GenForum conference titled, “Utilities and Distributed Resources: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb!“

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FERC Ends Department of Energy’s Proposed Resilience Rule but Initiates a Resilience Proceeding of Its Own

On January 8, 2018, FERC terminated the proceeding initiated in September 2017 (Docket No. RM18-1-000) to address the proposed rule on grid reliability and resilience pricing (DOE NOPR). This article explores FERC's reasoning for declining the rule, FERC's own "holistic" resilience proceeding, the history of elevating grid resilience as a regulatory concern, and next steps.

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