What is the honest gap between what the transition will cost and what ratepayers are currently being asked to accept?
About This Session
This discussion takes on the growing tension between the capital required to build a reliable, decarbonized grid and the tolerance of customers and regulators for what that costs. With panelists spanning independent energy economics, utility corporate affairs, health system energy strategy, and utility operations leadership, the conversation tests which elements of the financing picture are grounded in real numbers and which are being deferred in ways that will create problems later.
Key Questions Explored
- What is the honest gap between what the transition will cost and what ratepayers are currently being asked to accept?
- Where are utilities, regulators, and investors making assumptions about customer tolerance that may not hold?
- What financing structures could close the capital gap without compressing affordability further?
- Which parts of the clean energy investment story are real and which are still closer to aspiration?
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