Recap from Mid-C Seminar 2024.

Transforming Power Markets Together: Navigating the complexities of the evolving electricity landscape!

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Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Scott Miller, Executive Director, Western Power Trading Forum , “Update on markets and the West-wide Pathways Initiative“
Randy Hardy Randy Hardy, Principal, Hardy Energy Consulting, “Loads, Resources and Transmission: Challenges and Opportunities”
Sarah Edmonds
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Sarah Edmonds, President & CEO, Western Power Pool, “Update on WestTEC, the Western Transmission Expansion Coalition”
Branden Sudduth
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Branden Sudduth, Vice President of Reliability Planning and Performance Analysis, WECC, “WECC Reliability Risk Priorities“
David W. Brown
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David W. Brown, Senior Principal, Obsidian Renewables, LLC, “Biomass to Hydrogen and other Biofuel”
Mel Clark
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– Luncheon Speaker: Mel Clark, President and CEO, CleanTech Alliance, “Does the Future of Fusion run through Washington?”
Jeff Benoit
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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”
Bryan villano
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Bryan Villano, Co-Founder, Contract Power, “Generative AI: A Technology Review Using the Historic Transmission Regulation, FERC Order 1920 and Other Contracts”
Steve Wright
Steve Wright
“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”
Gabriela Oliveira
Gabriela Oliveira
  Michelle Cathcart
Michelle Cathcart
 
Arne Olson
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Arne Olson, Senior Partner, E3, “Accounting for Clean Energy and Carbon: Why Simpler is Sometimes Better, or In Defense of the Humble REC”
Rich Glick
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“Policy Panel“: – moderated by Steve Wright, EUE, LLC
Rich Glick, Principal, GQ New Energy Strategies“Impact of FERC order 1920 on the West”
Jennifer Light
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Jennifer Light, Director of Power Planning, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, “The Evolving Approach to Assessing Resource Adequacy”
Michael Linn
Michael Linn
“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,
Carrie Simpson
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Carrie Simpson, Senior Director, Seams & Western Services, Southwest Power Pool,
Becky Robinson
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Becky Robinson, Director of Market Policy, CAISO,
Rebecca Sexton
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Rebecca Sexton, Director of Reliability Programs, Western Power Pool