NARUC Winter Committee Meetings

Presentations

 

Staff Subcommittee on Telecommunications

Saturday, February 11

Panel I: Broadband Lifeline Update: New Carriers and New Offers

Current Issues: Reports from NARUC

Panel II: Here Comes the IP Transition: What's In It For You?

FirstNet Update

Sunday, February 12

Panel III: Wireless Expansion: Distributed Antenna Systems and Small Cell Deployment

Panel IV: Disability Access Communications: The Digital Migration (Joint session with Staff Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs)

Panel V: Telecom Infrastructure and the USF: New Administration, New Policies and the Current Fund 

Presentation: Critical Infrastructure Threat Information Sharing Framework

 

Subcommittee on Education and Research

Saturday, February 11

NRRI Update

ICER VWG 4: Regulatory Best Practices

Update on Subcommittee Projects

The University of Tulsa Online Program

Review of Applications for Support

Scholarship Review and Selection

Certificate of Regulatory Education Update

 

National Regulatory Research Institute Colloquium

Saturday, February 11

Telecommunications Regulation: The Year in Review 2016 and the Outlook for 2017

Bridging Natural Gas to a Low Carbon Future: the Debate

Reimagining State Interconnection Rules for Distributed Generation Plug-and-Play Procedures

Small Water System Opportunities: Surveying State Utility Commissions for Best Practices

 

Subcommittee on Supplier and Workforce Diversity

Sunday, February 12

Flash from the Past: A Dialogue with Former Commissioners in the Private Sector

Hiring and Diversity: Utility Apathy or Enthusiasm?

Commissioner Discussion: Supplier and Workforce Diversity Toolkit

 

Staff Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs

Sunday, February 12

Socializing the Cost of Solar

Fighting Utility Customer Scams

Panel IV: Disability Access Communications: The Digital Migration (Joint session with Staff Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs)

 

Staff Subcommittee on Rate Design

Sunday, February 12

Blockchain!: An Introduction

We Are Underused: How DER Compensation and Value Identification Affects the Utilization of DER

Update on Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium Projects

 

Washington Action

Sunday, February 12

Monday, February 13

 

Committee on International Relations

Sunday, February 12

EEI In the World

ICER Explained

NARUC's International Activities: The View from USAID and DOS

Report on NARUC International Programs

Strategic Role of Natural Gas in Transatlantic International Relations

 

Committee on Critical Infrastructure

Sunday, February 12

Partner Updates

How Safe is Safe Enough: Cybersecurity and Cost Recovery in a New Era of Risk

Cyber Workforce: Addressing the Gap

Monday, February 13

Resiliency Before, During, and After Disruptive Events

 

Committee on Consumer Affairs

Sunday, February 12

Inclusive Financing for Distributed Energy Solutions

Give the People What they Want? Polling in the Wake of the 2016 Election and What it Means for Congress, the New Administration and State Decision Makers

 

Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety (Joint with Staff Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety)

Sunday, February 12

 

Staff Subcommitee on Pipeline Safety (Joint with Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety)

Sunday, February 12

Monday, February 13

 

Task Force on Innovation

Sunday, February 12

Integrated Energy Networks and Battery Storage

 

Staff Subcommittee on Energy Resources and the Environment

Sunday, February 12

Reimagining State Interconnection Rules for Distributed Generation Plug-and-Play Procedures

Natural Gas Fracking and Water Quality: Fact vs. Fiction (Joint Session with Gas and Water Staff Subcommittees)

The Unknown Fugitive: Why We Care About Unexpected Methane Emissions and the Efforts to Capture Them (Joint Session with Gas Staff Subcommitee)

 

Staff Subcommittee on Electricity and Staff Subcommittee on Electric Reliability (Joint)

Sunday, February 12

The National Cost of Power Interruptions to Customers, and Early Findings from the State PUC Staff Reviews of Utility Reliability/Resilience Investment Requests

Cloud Services for Electric Utilities

 

Staff Subcommittee on Gas

Sunday, February 12

North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB): Who Are We? What Do We Do?

Know All There is About Conversion from Coal to Natural Gas?

Natural Gas Fracking and Water Quality: Fact vs. Fiction  (Joint Session with ERE and Water Staff Subcommittees)

GTI Updates

The Unknown Fugitive: Why We Care About Unexpected Methane Emissions and the Efforts to Capture Them (Joint Session with ERE Staff Subcommitee)

 

Staff Subcommittee on Water

Sunday, February 12

Natural Gas Fracking and Water Quality: Fact vs. Fiction  (Joint Session with Gas and Water Staff Subcommittees)

Monday, February 13

Resiliency Before, During, and After Disruptive Events (Joint Session with Committee on Water) 

Water Infrastructure Replacement: How Does it Get Paid For? (Joint Session with Staff Subcommittee on Water)

Lead Service Line Replacement Cooperative (Joint Session with Committee on Water) 

 

Staff Subcommittee on Law

Monday, February 13

 

Committee on Water

Monday, February 13

Resiliency Before, During, and After Disruptive Events (Joint Session with Staff Subcommittee on Water)

Water Infrastructure Replacement: How Does it Get Paid For? (Joint Session with Staff Subcommittee on Water)

Lead Service Line Replacement Cooperative (Joint Session with Staff Subcommittee on Water)

Business Meeting

 

Committee on Telecommunications

Monday, February 13

Congressional Staff Panel

Broadband and Privacy Issues: Who Best Protects the Consumer?

Update on the Transition to a New Local Number Portability Administrator

Telecommunications Resiliency and Critical Infrastructure
 

Committee on Electricity

Monday, February 13

PURPA: How Much Implementation Flexibility Do State Commissioners Have?

Political Prognostications about Nuclear Issues (Joint Session with Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues)

Energy Storage: Three Views

Joint session with the Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management

 

Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues

Sunday, February 12

Monday, February 13

Political Prognostications about Nuclear Issues (Joint Session with Committee on Electricity)

 

Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management

Monday, February 13

Joint session with the Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management

 

Committee on Gas

Monday, February 13

Gas CEO Panel: Reflection on the Business of Natural Gas

Natural Gas and the Advanced Persistent Threat of Cyber Attacks: The Awakening of Natural Gas Policy

Federal Tax Plan Landscape Issues: Expert Perspective on Potential Federal Tax Plans 

Pipeline Safety: Roundtable Discussion on Pipeline Safety

 

Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment

Monday, February 13

Community Solar: Stories from the Trenches

Why Are We Talking About LED Street Lighting?

Who Wore it Better: Utility Scale Solar or Rooftop Solar?