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• G&T R​esource Planning Association Bylaws
• ​Resource Planners Association History​​​

Past Meeting Materials​​

October 2024​​​​​​

October 2023

• RPA 2023 Keynote – Angela Strickland
  
  Angela Strickland, Senior Vice Presid​ent, Business and Technology Strategies, NRECA​​
  
• Carbon Capture: Technology, Tax Credits, and Deployment
  ​Will Morris, Ph.D., President and Technical Director, Carbon Management Strategies LLC​​
  
• Diversifying a "Paper" G&T Resource Portfolio - Central Electric's Evolution​
  ​Caleb Bryant, Manager Corporate Planning, Central Electric Power Cooperative
  
• Wildfire Mitigation- Best Practices & Proactive Planning – Dean
  Wildfire Mitigation- Best Practices & Proactive Planning - Parr ​
  Doug Dean, Senior Manager, Transmission Maintenance, West at Tri-State G&T
  Corey Parr, VP Safety & Loss Pr​evention Consultant at Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange
• ​​Regulatory Update: IRA, Tax Incentives, and FERC 2222
• Mary Ann Ralls, Senior Director, Regulatory Counsel, NRECA
  
• Hydrogen Hubs: Incentives and Economics
  
  Kevin Cox, Utility Services Director and Senior Principal at CDG Engineers, Inc.
  
• Hydrogen Blending in Firming Resources - Freeman​ Hydrogen Blending in Firming Resources - Meeusen
  Dr. Karl Meeusen, PhD is the Director, Markets, Legislative and Regulato​ry Policy, North America for Wärtsila
  Tom Freeman, Chief Customer Consultant, GE Gas Power
  
• The "New" Clean Power Plan: Proposed Rule for State-Level CO2 Regulation
  
  Dan Bosch, Regulatory Affairs Director, NRECA
  
• Transmission Barriers to New Resources: Developments by Planning Region
  Eric Laverty, Vice President of Regulatory and Reliability Services, ACES Power
  
• Long Duration Storage: Are We There Yet?
  Michael Keyser, CEO at National Renewables Cooperative Organization
  
• ​DERMS Platforms: Capabilities, Use Cases, and Case Studies – OATI
  ​DERMS Platforms: Capabilities, Use Cases, and Case Studies – NCEMC
  ​Chris DiMisa, Manager of Energy Operations, NCEMC
  ​Johnathan Talley, Manager – Near Term Optimization, NCEMC
  Ali Ipackhi, Ph.D., OATI
• Planning for Large Industrial Loads - Data Centers in Virginia – ODEC
  Planning for Large Industrial Loads - Data Centers in Virginia – REC​
  
  Felicia Ainsa, Economic Development Director, Rappahannock Electric C​ooperative
  Brandon Newbill, Senior Manager Power Supply Planning at Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
  
• Grid-Level Planning: Proactive DER and EV Integration
  
  Eugene Hamrick, Director - Enterprise Analytics and Innovation, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
• RPA Conference_2023 Bios​
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October 2022

• Batteries for Breakfast: Battery Storage Modeling and Procurement Pra​ctices & Lessons Learned from NCEMC Portfolio​
  ​Johnathan Talley, NCEMC
  ​Debbie Britt, NCEMC
• Batteries for Breakfast: Movement in Battery Storage Market, Supply Chain, and Safety​
  ​Matt Paiss, PNNL
  
• Batteries for Breakfast: Operations and Maintenance for Your New Asset​
  ​Piper Wilder, 60Hertz Energy
  
• Highland Electric: The Business Case for School Bus Electrification & Storage
  ​Michael​ Callender, Highland Electric Fleets
• Small Modular Reactors: The Latest and Greatest​
  ​​​Pat Looney, GE Hitachi
  
• Wholesale-Retail Rate Alignment: Enabling New Technologies Through Flexible Rate​s
  ​Dr. Lucas Johnson, Wolverine Power
  
• Available Tools and Incentive for Distributed Wind in Your Area
  ​Michael Leitman, NRECA
  
• The Infrastructure Bill: Grants and Opportunities
  ​Lauren Khair, NRECA
  
• Inflation Reduction Act: Federal Grants and Direct Pay Incentives
  Teri Visanath, CoBank
  
• Regulatory Update: Coal Regulations, Renewable Incentives, and More
  ​Mary Ann Ralls, NRECA
  
• What Happened in Texas? 2021 Winter Storm, Load Shedding, and Financial Impacts
  ​Mark Thomas, ACES
  
• The Changing Value of Energy Resources in Our Markets
  ​Patrick Mcguire, ACES
  
• The Value of Integrated Distribution and Resource Planning​
  ​Fathalla Eldadi, NRECA
  

October 2019

• AGENDA
• Welcome
  David Crews, Senior VP of Power Supply, East Kentucky Power Cooperative
• Regulatory Update
  Stephanie Crawford, NRECA
• Review of Market Hedging Strategies
  Jason Painter, ACES
• A G&T Perspective in SPP
  Erica Villarreal, Sunflower Electric Poewr Corporation
• Modeling Markets Fractured by State Policies
  James Wright, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and Ben Thompson, Energy Exemplar
• G&T Rate Structures and Alignment
  Mike Casper, Jo-Carroll Energy and John Young, Dairyland Power Cooperative
• Natural Gas Production and Supply Economics
  Tim Dorpinghaus, Kinder Morgan
• Electric Vehicles, State of the Industry and Load Impacts
  Peter Muhoro, CFC
• Small Modular Reactors
  Scott Rasmussen, NuScale
• Interconnecting Renewable Resources
  Bill Pazella, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative

October 2018

• AGENDA
• Welcome - GTC Overview and Perspectives
  Daniel, Georgia Transmission
• Keynote - How Different Is Georgia?
  Donovan, Georgia Transmission
• Plant Vogtle Units 3 & 4 - Impact on Transmission
  Casey, Georgia Transmission
• High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
  Brogdon, Georgia Transmission
• Regulatory Update
  Silberstein, NRECA
• Grid Scale Energy Storage
  Sprenkle, PNNL
• Modeling Energy Storage and Lessons Learned
  Talley, NCEMC
  
• Dynamic Modelling and Value of Flexibility
  Fladger, Wartsila
• Flexible Generation Options
  Henderson Interview of Fladger, Wartsila
  
• Coal Plant Closures - Understanding and Mitigating the Risk Factors
  Presented by Bradshaw;
  Dykstra and Nowling, Black & Veatch
• State of the Markets
  Rohrbach, ACES
• Renewable Standards and the Reshaping of the Western Energy Market
  Gernet, Arizona G&T
• RECS as a Tradeable Commodity
  Rainey, NOVEC
• The Value of Broadband Backbone
  Santoro, NRTC

October 2017