Pittsburgh Works’ Post

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On behalf of Duquesne Light, I think we would identify two issues or opportunities. One is affordability. We want to make sure that we're maintaining the affordability of the product and service that we're providing to our customer and obviously reliability, which is making sure the lights stay on. We don't generate electricity, we deliver it and we certainly have the capacity to deliver it to our customers. But the generation of electricity as we go forward for the next couple of years is going to be challenged and. We need to make sure that we have enough generation in Southwestern Pennsylvania and across Pennsylvania to serve our customers and make sure that the lights stay on. So what do we do to help accomplish that? I think primarily we need to work with all of the stakeholders, so that's those that generate the electricity as well as our customers and ourselves and then the policymakers to ensure that we have that sufficient generation. And it's all generation. It can be renewable generation as well as natural gas and nuclear. They all need to be part of that. Delusion. And we need to incentivize all that to make sure that as we move forward, we have that electricity for our customers as well As for economic development and to keep the lights on.