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Chevron faces a broad array of risks, including market, operational, strategic, legal, regulatory, political and financial risks. We undertake an enterprisewide process to identify major risks to the company and ensure that appropriate mitigation plans are in place. As part of this process, we conduct an annual risk review with executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
Our company’s foundation is built on our values, which guide our actions to deliver results. We conduct our business in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, respecting the law and universal human rights, in order to benefit the communities where we work. Chevron’s …
View Full ResourceThe issue of ‘resilience’ of the power system—including how to best define, measure, and ensure it—has
garnered substantial attention in recent months. The energy policy community turned its collective focus
to resilience issues following the devastating electric grid failures in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane
Maria, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) September 2017 proposal of the Grid ResiliencyU
Pricing Rule. DOE submitted the proposed rulemaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with the stated purpose of expeditiously bolstering the grid’s resilience and reliability. The proposal called for tariff changes to ensure the recovery …
This issue brief provides a summary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)’s decision
on the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Proposed Rule on Grid Reliability and Resilience Pricing. The
proposed rule provided cost recovery to coal and nuclear power under the guise of promoting grid
resilience with preference for a 90-day supply of on-site fuel. On Jan. 8, 2018, FERC issued an order
to terminate the rulemaking proceeding and established a new proceeding to gather additional
information on resilience. FERC’s decision was a 5-0 unanimous agreement, with concurring
opinions by Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur, Neil Chatterjee and Richard Glick. The independent…
Small Modular Reactors: Adding to Resilience at Federal Facilities (this “Report”) expands on the January 2017 report entitled Purchasing Power Produced by Small Modular Reactors: Federal Agency Options (the “Initial Report”). The Initial Report focused on assisting federal agencies to identify options to participate in the purchase of power produced by small modular reactors (“SMRs”), the structure and issues with financing an SMR, and the unique issues that federal agencies face when making power purchase decisions. The Initial Report identified how federal agencies can purchase SMR-produced power through long-term agreements (over thirty (30) years) by using the Utah Associated Municipal …
View Full ResourceOn September 28, 2017, the US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), proposing significant changes to the nation’s wholesale markets for electricity. The NOPR directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to develop new tariffs to compensate unregulated units with a 90-day on-site supply of fuel for their “operating and fuel expenses, costs of capital and debt via debt relief companies, and a fair return on equity and investment.”2 The full text of the memo makes clear that the rule is intended to apply to coal and nuclear facilities, which it mentions as having …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) new report on the U.S. electric grid makes valuable recommendations for expanding access to reliable, low-cost electricity by streamlining approval of electric transmission infrastructure and using markets to procure essential reliability services. As a low-cost source of energy that can provide reliability services as well as or better than conventional power plants, wind energy will flourish with the expansion of markets and infrastructure…
View Full ResourceAmericans’ safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex “cyber-physical” system composed of a network of millions of components spread out across the continent. These components are owned, operated, and regulated by thousands of different entities. Power system operators work hard to assure safe and reliable service, but large outages occasionally happen. Given the nature of the system, there is simply no way that outages can be completely avoided, no matter how much time and money is devoted to such an effort. The system’s reliability and resilience can …
View Full ResourceIndustry experts and efficiency advocates agree that improving the efficiency of building systems is an important strategy for achieving the next level of efficiency in buildings. A systems approach considers the interactions of components within and among various building systems (e.g., heating and cooling systems, lighting systems, miscellaneous electric loads), as well as interactions among multiple buildings, and between the building and the electric grid.
The Systems Efficiency Initiative (SEI) provides a critical forum for understanding the energy savings potential of a systems approach and for developing strategies for moving the market in this direction. Toward this goal, the SEI’s …
View Full ResourceClimate change is causing increased temperatures, sea level rise, more intense extreme weather events, and other impacts across the United States. More cities are recognizing these risks and taking steps to increase their resilience to current and future impacts. At the same time, many businesses are also identifying and acting on climate risks. While guidance exists to help each of these sectors improve their climate resilience, there is no guidance on why and how they can work together to improve resilience planning. This report fills that gap.
Building on our previous research on resilience planning in large companies, C2ES worked …
View Full ResourcePolicymakers and regulatory agencies are expressing renewed interest in the reliability and resilience of the U.S. electric power system in large part due to growing recognition of the challenges posed by climate change, extreme weather events, and other emerging threats. Unfortunately, there has been little or no consolidated information in the public domain describing how public utility/service commission (PUC) staff evaluate the economics of proposed investments in the resilience of the power system. Having more consolidated information would give policymakers a better understanding of how different state regulatory entities across the U.S. make economic decisions pertaining to reliability/resiliency. To help …
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