For Immediate Release: August 1, 2016
Contact: Regina L. Davis, 202-898-9382, rdavis@naruc.org
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners concluded a successful series of summer meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, and adopted several important resolutions across utility sectors.
NARUC’s meetings, held July 24-27, were well attended—with nearly 1,100 attendees. The event featured a range of sessions focused on matters relevant to state utility commissioners: electricity, telecommunications, gas, water and transportation issues.
A town hall on the much-anticipated draft Manual on Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Compensation was convened on Saturday, July 23, with more than 100 attendees. The town hall featured discussions of the draft manual and solicited questions and comments from the audience. The draft manual is available on NARUC’s website at http://bit.ly/2ahCpaB and comments will be accepted until September 2, 2016, at responses@naruc.org.
Monday’s general session kicked off the formal start of the meetings with a Q&A with Exelon’s President and CEO Chris Crane, moderated by NARUC President Travis Kavulla of Montana. Other general sessions featured issues of big data—cloud-based solutions and applications in the utility industry; ensuring a workforce for utility construction projects; and the role of states versus markets in procuring generation.
At the conclusion of the meetings, on July 27, the Board of Directors adopted the following resolutions:
WA-1 Resolution Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to Withdraw the Final Rule Relating to the Definition of “Waters of the United States” Under the Clean Water Act or Propose a Supplemental Rule Subject to Additional Public Comment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requests that the United States Congress take actions necessary to prevent implementation of the final rule, and urges the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw the final rule or propose a supplemental rule, subject to another round of public comments and additional cost-benefit analysis studies.
Resolutions are available online at http://bit.ly/2ahIHJY; honorary resolutions can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2aCuExS.
NARUC will host its annual meeting November 13-16, 2016, in La Quinta, California.
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NARUC is a non-profit organization founded in 1889 whose members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. NARUC's member agencies regulate telecommunications, energy, and water utilities. NARUC represents the interests of State public utility commissions before the three branches of the Federal government.
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