Navigating the complexities of the evolving electricity landscape
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Special Keynote Session
Update on markets and the West-wide Pathways Initiative.
Scott Miller, Executive Director,
Western Power Trading Forum
Our Speakers and Moderators
- Branden Sudduth, Vice President of Reliability Planning and Performance Analysis, WECC, “WECC Reliability Risk Priorities”
- Sarah Edmonds, President & CEO, Western Power Pool, “Update on WestTEC, the Western Transmission Expansion Coalition”
- Randy Hardy, Principal, Hardy Energy Consulting, “Loads, Resources and Transmission: Challenges and Opportunities”
- Bryan Villano, Co-Founder, Contract Power, “Generative AI: A Technology Review Using the Historic Transmission Regulation, FERC Order 1920 and Other Contracts”
- Jeff Benoit, Vice President of Global Energy Solutions, “Racing to the Start – Creating Commercially Viable Net Zero Power with Gas Turbines Through Hydrogen Fuel Adoption”
- David W. Brown, Obsidian Renewables, LLC, “Biomass to Hydrogen and other Biofuels”
- Mel Clark, President and CEO, CleanTech Alliance, “Does the Future of Fusion run through Washington?”
- 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 Development, CAISO
- Rebecca Sexton, Director of Reliability Programs, Western Power Pool
- Energy Policy Panel
– moderated by Steve Wright, EUE, LLC- Rich Glick, Principal, GQ New Energy Strategies, “FERC order 1920- Impacts on transmission planning”
- 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 of Policy and Government Affairs, Atlas Agro, “Hydrogen for fertilizer production in the PNW”
- Michelle Cathcart, VP of Generation Asset Management, BPA, “The Columbia River Treaty Agreement in Principle”
Our organizers
Doug Frazier HorsePower Consulting,
Mid-C Founder
Bill Dearing CEO Dearing Consulting,
Mid-C Founder