The Flexibility Challenge

Getting the most out of today's power system

We caught up with Bob Jenks, executive director of the CUB Policy Center, to talk about the growing need for flexibility in the region's power system. CUB's recent policy conference explored the question of how to make renewable energy, with its ups and downs in output, work on the system. Can we use the current system more efficiently to integrate renewable resources? Here's what he had to say.