VP Regulatory Affairs
Grid modernization and clean energy regulatory strategy
What You Do Today
Shape the regulatory framework for grid modernization investments, clean energy mandates, and performance-based regulation. Position the utility to earn returns on new technology investments while meeting policy objectives.
AI That Applies
AI benchmarks peer utility approaches to grid modernization cost recovery and models the financial impact of different regulatory frameworks (cost-of-service vs. performance-based).
Technologies
How It Works
The system monitors regulatory data sources — rule changes, enforcement actions, and compliance records. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.
What Changes
Benchmarking and framework analysis becomes more comprehensive with AI-powered research across jurisdictions.
What Stays
Crafting the regulatory narrative that connects technology investments to customer benefits, and navigating the political dynamics of energy transition.
What To Do Next
This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.
Establish Your Baseline
Know where you are before you move
Before adopting AI tools for grid modernization and clean energy regulatory strategy, understand your current state.
Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.
Define Your Measures
What to track and how to calculate it
Time per cycle
How to calculate
Measure how long grid modernization and clean energy regulatory strategy takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.
Why it matters
The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.
Quality of output
How to calculate
Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.
Why it matters
Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.
Start These Conversations
Who to talk to and what to ask
your board chair or lead independent director
“What's our current capability gap in grid modernization and clean energy regulatory strategy — and is it a people problem, a tools problem, or a process problem?”
They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance
your CTO or CIO
“If we automated the routine parts of grid modernization and clean energy regulatory strategy, what would the team do with the freed-up time?”
They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption
Check Your Prerequisites
Confirm readiness before you invest
Check items as you confirm them.