Navigating the complexities of the evolving electricity landscape
Join us for 27th Mid-C seminar, which will be held from, July 30-31, 2024 at the Wenatchee Convention Center. Pre-conference events will be Tuesday, July 30 with the reception dinner at the Ohme Garden beginning at 5 pm, and other optional golf and wine tasting. The conference will be Wednesday, July 31, 9 am to 5 pm.
| Keynote Speaker: Scott Miller, Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum “Update on markets and the West-wide Pathways Initiative” |  |
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Agenda – July 31- Day 2
| Time (PDT) | Topics |
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am – 9:15 am | Opening Remarks –Doug Frazier, Horsepower Consulting, Bill Dearing, Dearing Consulting |
| 9:15 am – 10:15 am | Keynote Speaker – Scott Miller, Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum , “Update on markets and the West-wide Pathways Initiative“ |
| 9:45 am – 10:15 am | – Randy Hardy, Principal, Hardy Energy Consulting, “Loads, Resources and Transmission: Challenges and Opportunities” |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | – Sarah Edmonds, President & CEO, Western Power Pool, “Update on WestTEC, the Western Transmission Expansion Coalition” |
| 10:45 am – 11:00 am | – Break |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | – Branden Sudduth, Vice President of Reliability Planning and Performance Analysis, WECC, “WECC Reliability Risk Priorities“ |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | – David W. Brown, Senior Principal, Obsidian Renewables, LLC, “Biomass to Hydrogen and other Biofuel” |
| 12:00 pm- 12:20 pm | – Lunch Break |
| 12:20 pm – 12:50 pm | – Luncheon Speaker: Mel Clark, President and CEO, CleanTech Alliance, “Does the Future of Fusion run through Washington?” |
| 12:50 pm – 1:20 pm | – Jeff Benoit, Vice President, Global Clean Energy Solutions, “Racing to the Start – Creating Commercially Viable Net Zero Power with Gas Turbines Through Hydrogen Fuel Adoption” |
| 1:20 pm – 1:50 pm | – Bryan Villano, Co-Founder, Contract Power, “Generative AI: A Technology Review Using the Historic Transmission Regulation, FERC Order 1920 and Other Contracts” |
| 1:50 pm – 3:30 pm | “Policy Panel“: – moderated by Steve Wright, EUE, LLC – Rich Glick, Principal, GQ New Energy Strategies“Impact of FERC order 1920 on the West” – Arne Olson, Senior Partner, E3, “Accounting for Clean Energy and Carbon: Why Simpler is Sometimes Better, or In Defense of the Humble REC” – Jennifer Light, Director of Power Planning, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, “The Evolving Approach to Assessing Resource Adequacy” – Gabriela Oliveira, Director Renewable Power, Atlas Agro, “Hydrogen for fertilizer production in the PNW” – Michelle Cathcart, VP of Generation Asset Management, BPA, “The Columbia River Treaty Agreement in Principle” |
| 3:30 pm- 3:35 pm | – Break |
| 3:35 pm- 5:00 pm | – “Panel on New Markets with updates on future market design, potential seams issues, transmission, resource adequacy, and greenhouse gas attribution”: moderated by Michael Linn, Director, Market Analytics, Public Power Council, – Carrie Simpson, Senior Director, Seams & Western Services, Southwest Power Pool, – Becky Robinson, Director of Market Policy, CAISO, – Rebecca Sexton, Director of Reliability Programs, Western Power Pool, |
| 5:00 pm | Wrap up and Close |