New England utility regulators warned that knee-jerk reactions to backlash over high winter costs could create long-term consequences for customers.

FERC’s resource adequacy technical conference zoomed out on the second day, June 5, with several panels examining ISO-NE, MISO and NYISO.

Outgoing FERC Chair Mark Christie and former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter both emphasized that the West controls the future of the Western interconnection, not Washington.

BPA CEO John Hairston’s keynote at the annual meeting of the WCPSC spotlighted a theme that would dominate discussion at the event: the looming prospect of overwhelming growth in electricity demand in the West and across the U.S.

An EBA panel looked into the history of demand growth in light of its recent return, while a second panel looked at issues around utility credit ratings, as investments will have to ramp up to meet the new demand.

Government officials and industry executives discussed how to mitigate rising energy costs in New England at the NECPUC Symposium.