Common Ground on Grid Investment & Customer Value: Powering the Future Amid Growing Economic, Political & Public Pressure
While their roles are distinct, state utility commission, consumer advocate, and electric company representatives (the three core groups) center their important work around ensuring that customers receive safe, adequate, reliable, and resilient electric service at just and reasonable rates. Achieving those shared objectives is becoming more challenging as electricity demand grows, infrastructure ages, investment needs increase, and customers feel the strain of rising costs across nearly every aspect of daily life. Pressure from political leaders and the public related to overall energy costs seems to be at an all-time high, and even the most foundational regulatory approaches are questioned in the quest for quick solutions. CCIF endeavors to facilitate candid, productive discussion of these growing pressures and short- and long-term options to ensure customers receive reliable service at the lowest reasonable rates and tangible value for every dollar invested in the electric grid.
CCIF’s 2026 Kickoff and 2027 Summit Series will explore common ground among the three core groups regarding foundational regulatory constructs, present and future challenges and opportunities, and potential approaches for how to evaluate necessary long-term investment in the grid while delivering measurable value to customers.