Julie Estey
49:05 - 49:27
"I do think policy helps create that imperative and sets a timeline because that's another thing we have, you know, we are all very lean organizations."
“I do think policy helps create that imperative and sets a timeline because that's another thing we have, you know, we are all very lean organizations.”
- Speaker
- Julie Estey
- Timestamp
- 49:05 – 49:27
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 7, 2026
From the transcript
How can policy help? And I do think What has been proven through both the RRC, the RTO, the Power Pool is that, I mean, these— all of these things, the mechanisms exist right now for us to do economic dispatch, you know, region-wide. And so I think there's lots of— I don't think anybody's like, "No, I don't want to do it." I mean, maybe there are some, but I mean, it's really just bandwidth is there value, getting kind of through the inertia. So I do think policy helps create that imperative and sets a timeline because that's another thing we have, you know, we are all very lean organizations. We have a few people that can do this work unless we want to bring on high-paid consultants that may eat up some of the benefit of this.
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