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Webinar: Fuel Security, Resilience, and Reliability: What’s it All About?
October 23, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Featured Speaker: Rob Gramlich, Founder & President, Grid Strategies
Rob Gramlich has been working to drive grid modernization and expansion efforts since the mid-1990s. Through senior positions in government and the private sector, he has developed and led initiatives on renewable energy integration, market design, and transmission policy.
Rob oversaw transmission policy for the American Wind Energy Association from 2005 through 2016 as Senior Vice President for Government and Public Affairs, Interim CEO, and Policy Direc
tor. He was Economic Advisor to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III from 2001 to 2005, Senior Economist at PJM Interconnection in 1999 and 2000, Senior Associate at PG&E National Energy Group in 2000-2001, and an analyst at the FERC Office of Economic Policy, ICF Resources, the World Resources Institute, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the 1990s.
He has testified before the US Congress, US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and state regulatory commissions. He has served on advisory committees for the U.S. Department of Energy and the North American Energy Standards Board, on boards of a number of regional clean energy organizations, as Vice Chair of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and as Interim Executive Director of the Wind Energy Foundation.
Moderator: Charlie Smith, ESIG Executive Director
Registration Cost: FREE
Webinar Abstract: FERC’s expressed top priority is resilience. The Trump Administration is considering financial support for potentially retiring coal and nuclear plants. The three Northeast ISOs have active processes underway on fuel security, in one case in response to an order by FERC. This webinar will examine the meaning of resilience and fuel security and how they relate to reliability. It will present the extent to which resilience is supported by generation, as opposed to transmission and distribution. Finally, it will cover the role of renewable energy in providing reliability services and fuel security.
