Center for Partnerships & Innovation

CPI Publications

November 12, 2025
NCEP State Framework for Successful Stakeholder Engagement
This framework outlines engagement stages, captures shared principles, presents replicable approaches, and identifies cross-agency benefits shared by NCEP members and experts at the Fall 2024 Annual Meeting.?
November 10, 2025
NARUC Wildfire Workbook Chapter One: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Planning
Electric utility wild re mitigation plans, as described in this chapter, represent a very broad look at wild fire risk assessment and mitigation. A utility’s wild re mitigation plan assesses wildfire ignition risk and defines the methodology to reduc
November 10, 2025
NARUC Wildfire Workbook Introduction
The NARUC Wildfire Workbook is a compendium of practices and experiences currently in use in the electric utility sector. The project is a collection of policies and practices, without mandate or designation as a “best practice.” This is by design, s
November 3, 2025
Essential Guide to NARUC Data Sharing Resources
This guide connects commissioners and commission staff to essential data sharing resources that the NARUC Center for Partnerships & Innovation (CPI) has developed with support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Institute of Standar
August 15, 2025
Essential Guide to NARUC Integrated System Resilience Resources
This guide connects commissioners and commission staff to essential resilience resources that NARUC has developed.
August 12, 2025
NARUC Resilience Framework in Action Mini-Guide: Regional Coordination during Extreme Heat
This mini-guide was designed to demonstrate the flexibility of the NARUC Resilience Framework by applying it to an emerging issue: developing a regional coordination strategy to improve grid resilience to extreme heat events.
August 12, 2025
Technology Brief: Microgrids as Resilience Investments
This technology brief explores the role of microgrids as targeted resilience investments, clarifies how they differ from traditional backup power systems, and illustrates their real-world impact through both a rural and urban case study.
August 1, 2025
Grid Reliability and U.S. Coal Fleet Attributes: Considerations for State Regulators
This briefing paper provides state utility regulators with a comprehensive and current understanding of the reliability attributes of coal as a generation resource, potential reliability impacts associated with near-term coal plant retirements, and p
July 11, 2025
Valuation of Distributed Energy Resources – Information and Application
This report discusses how several public utility commissions (PUCs) have assessed the value of DER for the purpose of tariff design.
June 30, 2025
Developing State Advanced Nuclear Energy Strategic Frameworks: Guidance for State Energy Offices and Public Utility Commissions
The resource is designed to assist public utility commissions and State Energy Offices preparing to lead and/or contribute to the development of a strategic framework for new nuclear energy generation projects in their states.
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