NARUC to Weigh Utility Broadband Resolution in Nov.
NARUC would support energy utilities expanding broadband, under a proposed resolution for the Nov. 7-10 partially virtual meeting in Louisville. The Telecom Committee’s sole proposal, released Tuesday, would encourage “regulators and industry to support and facilitate the deployment by utilities…
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of wired and wireless secure, reliable broadband networks for critical grid communications.” Energy companies planning networks should consider sharing wired and wireless middle-mile communications infrastructure to support expanding consumer broadband, the draft said. If feasible and in customers’ best interest during wireless planning, energy companies should “coordinate to reduce equipment costs and enable provision of network services to other utilities with overlapping service territories,” it said: “To the extent permissible,” state legislatures and commissions should reduce burdensome rules or laws.