October 5, 2012

E3 Partner Arne Olson was an invited speaker at a biennial meeting of western state energy officials and utility commissions in San Diego, California in October 2012. Mr. Olson appeared on a panel to discuss the “Nexus between distribution and transmission level resource strategies.” His talk was entitled “Distributed Generation Benefits and Planning Challenges.” He also provided an update on E3’s development of an economy-wide carbon accounting tool for use in western regional transmission planning, funded through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.