Parking is free and allowed in the Mitchell Hamline parking lot and in the nearby
Grotto lot. A map can be found here.
*Please
note that parking is limited within the Mitchell Hamline parking
lot.
Deadline
to Register: Monday, April
23,
2018
Schedule: A lunch buffet will be served at 12:00 Noon.
Pre-registration is
required. The program begins at 12:45 PM. Reception and light refreshments following
the program.
Program:
Please join the MSBA Public Utilities Law Section and
Mitchell Hamline School of Law as our speakers address the unofficial
buzz-phrase of 2018 - "Grid Resilience." Recent extreme weather events,
continuing examination of our distribution and transmission infrastructure, and
evaluation of various solutions on the customers’ side of the meter, have
launched resilience of the electric grid into the forefront of the minds of
industry experts and legal practitioners. Come to hear experts discuss what have
been dubbed as the four pillars of improving our nation’s grid resilience -
smartening the grid, hardening the grid, distributing generation, and building
resilience on demand.
Keynote Speaker:Arshad Mansoor, Senior Vice President,
Research and Development, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Arshad Mansoor is Senior Vice President of the Research and
Development for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), with executive
responsibility for EPRI’s portfolio of research, development and demonstration
programs, spanning renewable, fossil, and nuclear generation; power delivery and
utilization; and the environment. Previously he served as Vice President of
EPRI’s Power Delivery and Utilization sector where he led research, development,
demonstration, and application of transmission and distribution and energy
utilization technologies, grid resiliency and customer
solutions.
Mansoor has a strong technical background in power
systems engineering, with 20 years of experience in consulting and R&D
related to the electricity industry. He earned a Bachelor of Science in
electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology and Master of Science (1992) and doctorate (1994) in electrical
engineering focusing on power systems engineering from the University of Texas
in Austin. He has completed the MIT Reactor Technology Course and the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard Business School. He holds five U.S. patents in
distributed energy resources.
He has published numerous papers in journals and conference
proceedings on all aspects of power system engineering and economics, has been
cited and quoted extensively as an expert in power systems by national media,
and has given numerous talks as a panelist in technical forums
worldwide.
First Panel:
Our first panel is comprised of industry experts familiar
with the deployment of smart grid technologies and solutions for hardening the
grid and ensuring grid reliability in the face of extreme weather events.
This panel will be moderated by Daniel Lipschultz,
Vice-Chair of the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission.
• Ellen Anderson
: Executive Director; University of Minnesota’s Energy Transition Lab
• Daniel Lysaker : Senior Grid Modernization Engineer; Xcel Energy
• Tim
Sullivan : Manager
of Electric Standards & Materials; CenterPoint Energy
Second Panel:
Our second panel is comprised of industry experts familiar
with programs to facilitate growth in distributed generation and keys to
expanding incorporation of demand-side management programs. This panel
will be moderated by Andrew P. Moratzka
, partner at Stoel Rives LLP.
• Michael Riewer
: Manager of Special Projects; Otter Tail Power Company
•
Jukka Kukkonen: Electric Vehicle Consultant.
Fresh Energy
• Jeremy
Bertsch :
Ventures Technology Leader; Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend,
LLC