Panel recommends outcome-based pilots to build trust and speed deployment
Speakers recommended outcome-oriented pilot projects (set a required in‑service date and work backward) to build interagency trust, surface process failures and produce implementable fixes for planners and legislators.
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Panelists repeatedly proposed outcome‑oriented pilots as a practical way to build trust and identify procedural fixes. Deborah Smith recounted a prior playbook developed with Oregon's Department of Energy for emergency preparedness that small utilities could reuse, arguing that similar shared tools and pilots could accelerate energy infrastructure preparedness. Kurt Beckett described innovation labs that test whether projects can be energized by a target date and said even if experiments take longer than planned, they reveal the specific fixes needed for incremental reforms.
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