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Acrostic This: How COVID-19 is Impacting Energy-Related Regulation and Legislation

Can’t find toilet paper or eggs at the grocery store? We can’t help you there. But we can help you find everything you need to know about what’s happening in state public utility commission dockets and legislation around the country related to energy and COVID-19.  And since schools are closed and many of us are trying to figure out how to make learning fun, we’ll do this in the form of an interactive map and a coronavirus acrostic. Click here to continue reading the blog post or click below to go to PowerSuite for the interactive map>

10 Tips for a Brave New (Remote Work) World

In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, businesses and trade associations alike have shifted to remote work options, making many adjustments along the way. We hope that all of you, your coworkers, families, and friends are safe and remain healthy — and have transitioned well to this new reality. Today we share some tips from a lively internal email thread at AEE, where some of our staff have worked remotely for more than eight years (some for 15 or longer in prior roles), and now the rest of us are working from home as well. We have refined many tools and systems for productive, impactful advocacy work from dispersed locations. But the current situation is far more extreme, with travel restrictions, offices closed, and shelter-in-place orders. We need all the tricks of the work-from-home trade to succeed in our work and in our mental state. Here, we share the best of them with you. Click here to continue reading the blog post>

aee webinars

MOPR Gets Real: How PJM Plans to Apply the Minimum Offer Price Rule

Live on Tuesday, March 7 at 3pm ET | 12pm PT

Since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a decision ordering an expanded Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in PJM Interconnection this past December, there has been much debate about the legality, substance, and implications of the order. With PJM's compliance plan now filed and open for comment through April 22, this webinar will take a look at how PJM has chosen to handle key issues, including what counts as a state subsidy, how default and resource-specific price floors will be set, and when future capacity auctions will take place. 

Panelists:

• Emma Nix, Senior Associate, Gabel Associates
• Greg Geller, Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs, Enel North America.
• Jeff Dennis, Managing Director and General Counsel, AEE

Find Opportunities within Energy Policy Issues

Live on Thursday, April 30 @ 2pm ET | 11am PT

Are your business opportunities and risks hiding in the weeds of energy policy? 

• Overwhelmed with information and don't know where to begin to look?
• Not sure what types of policy changes will have the biggest impact on your market segment?
• Trying to understand the difference between a bill and a docket? An application and order?

Join our webinar to learn about the key components of legislation and PUC dockets, best practices for finding value with in them and get advice from our policy experts with live Q&A. 

Panelists:

• Eric Fitz, General Manager, AEE PowerSuite (moderator)
• Hannah Polikov, Managing Director, AEE Policy
• Coley Girouard, Principal, AEE Policy