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Casey Baker reposted thisCasey Baker reposted thisAnnouncing the second round of experts who will be speaking at our Northwest Transmission Summit next week in Boise! Panel 2—Looking Ahead: Opportunities to Expand the Transmission System Many opportunities exist to expand the grid to meet future needs. Panelists will share about the utility and regional plans to expand our regional grid around three key strategies: optimizing the current grid, increasing capacity along existing corridors, and a small set of new projects that will reinforce the system and access the lowest cost resources available to meet our energy demands. Panelists: Casey Baker, Senior Program Manager, GridLab Hamody Hindi, Manager of Transmission Planning, Bonneville Power Administration Kyle Unruh, MBA, PMP, Director, Montana & Idaho, Renewable Northwest Curtis Westhoff, System Consulting Engineer, Idaho Power Planning Department Moderator: Shanna Brownstein, Utility Partnerships, GridCARE Learn more about our panelists: https://lnkd.in/gpiU72wc We hope to see you in Boise! ☺️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gicMBZ7H
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Casey Baker reposted thisCasey Baker reposted this📢 GridLab and RMI are excited to launch IRP CoLab, a platform built to support planners, regulators, advocates, and utilities with transparent, modern, and forward‑looking IRP approaches. As planning gets more complex, the CoLab plans to respond in kind with transparent and innovative resources to adapt and strengthen planning outcomes. Developed through collaboration with industry experts, IRP CoLab features: ✓ A comprehensive Best Practices Rubric ✓ Tools and insights for more rigorous planning ✓ Resources designed for stakeholder alignment The team is hosting a launch webinar on Thursday, April 23rd with an all-star ⭐ panel: Roger Pierce, Senior Specialist, Capacity Planning at Tennessee Valley Authority Ryan Tracey, Chief Strategy Officer at Sonoma Clean Power Nidhi R. Santen, Ph.D., Area Manager, Integrated Systems Planning at EPRI Aaron Schwartz, Senior Engineer at Telos Energy They'll discuss the rubric, emerging planning challenges, and how this platform can support your work in utility planning, regulation, or advocacy. 🗓️ Register now: https://lnkd.in/esYewZkwWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IRP Best Practices Rubric: Prioritize, Articulate, and Empower . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IRP Best Practices Rubric: Prioritize, Articulate, and Empower . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Casey Baker reposted thisCasey Baker reposted thisI'm just getting back from Berkeley where I joined the GridLab "Flex and Invest" workshop to discuss how grid interconnection reforms can help speed up generator interconnections to help bring on new load. The goal was to lock thirty experts in a room for the day, and don't leave until we solve the industry's interconnection woes. And mission accomplished, you should see the queues unjam any day now :) We didn't get quite that far, but I learned a ton. Importantly how we can reform NRIS and ERIS interconnection processes and use flexibility (in both gen and load) to interconnect faster and decouple "deliverability" from capacity constructs. I can't say we solved all the problems, but I can say confidently that the next breakthrough in interconnection reform will likely have its groundwork layed by someone that was in that room. Huge thansk to Ric O'Connell, Casey Baker, Katie Siegner and the RMI team for facilitating.
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Casey Baker reposted thisGreat initiative! These efforts and proposed steps are critical to: 1. Enhance speed to market 2. Ensure resource adequacy 3. Maintain transmission grid reliability/security 4. Address supply-chain challenges through increased capital efficiency 5. Create more cost-effective generation and transmission solutions 6. Ensure affordability and protect existing retail customersCasey Baker reposted thisToday EPRI released an open letter at CERAWeek signed by more than 30 members of the power and digital infrastructure industries -- including hyperscalers, utilities, ISO/RTOs, and others -- calling for industry-wide collaboration on a standardized approach for integrating large flexible loads. "Today’s interconnection and planning processes rely heavily on worst case assumptions about load behavior," the letter states. "While prudent from a reliability perspective, these assumptions could change when planning with flexibility in mind." The letter continues: "We call on: ● 𝐔𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 to engage with shared flexibility framework as a tool to unlock capacity and reduce interconnection friction. ● 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 to design for flexibility and adopt common performance definitions. ● 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 to enable pathways that recognize flexibility as a legitimate, reliability enhancing resource. ● 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 to align efforts and avoid fragmentation." Signatories include North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Compass Datacenters, Southern Company, Entergy, Exelon, DTE Energy, Arizona Public Service - APS, Constellation, MISO, SPP, CAISO, and others. To address this bottleneck, today EPRI is launching Flex MOSAIC, a uniform flexibility classification framework for large electric loads, developed through its DCFlex initiative in collaboration with more than 65 utilities, system operators, regulators, hyperscalers, and technology providers. With thanks to EPRI, Arshad Mansoor, Anuja Ratnayake and their team members for their leadership. Letter: https://lnkd.in/gNGimfGU Release: https://lnkd.in/g4R5-jnN
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Casey Baker posted thisMicrosoft SharePoint really is the most secure file sharing service because even if someone gives you access to a file, you don't actually have access to the file.
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Casey Baker reposted thisCasey Baker reposted thisFriends, I’m thrilled to be releasing this new paper - “A vision for a Customer Led Low Cost Power Grid” authored by Michael Lee. I think Michael makes a compelling case for a re-invigorated retail competitive landscape in PJM states as a tool to push down prices and make electricity affordable again. PJM states have been frustrated with the glacial pace of new resources added to the grid, which has driven up prices and squeezed consumers. We wanted to come up with a solution to the conundrum of PJM prices that didn’t require changes at PJM, which are notoriously difficult due to a governance structure that is, in essence, putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop. Michael’s vision is retail electricity providers innovate and deploy customer sited resources (solar, batteries, smart thermostats) to bring down capacity and energy costs for not just the consumers that host these resources, but deploying more capacity brings down prices for all consumers. This is the model of Tesla Energy, Octopus, and Base Power in Texas, as well as in many western countries where retail energy is the norm. For this vision to be realized, we need some minor structural changes to how we settle customer bills and we need to speed up the signup process for residential customers. The big change is “Supplier Consolidated Billing” - where customers would get a bill from their retailer, not their distribution utility as it is today. These changes would allow existing and new retailers to develop creative and innovative offerings for customers that deliver real value to both customers and all ratepayers. And these changes finally align retailer incentives with creating better outcomes for customers and the grid at the same time. This paper is a bit of a departure for GridLab, but I strongly believe that re-invigorating the residential market in these states is something that states can do today without waiting for PJM to fix its broken interconnection queue and rise to meet the challenge of load growth in its footprint. I was just in Australia recently, and the UK last year, where we saw how nimble retailers are offering innovative solutions that save customers money and deliver excellent value for all ratepayers. It’s time we got some of that competition and excitement in the US, it’s not fair that Texas gets to have all the fun. It’s serious. There are voices calling loudly to re-verticalize the utilities in PJM, stomping out retail competition and moving back to an old model that those states left behind over 20 years ago. This is the wrong choice, as competition brings innovation and drives down cost - not returning to the vertical regulation of the past. With some modest reforms we can enable retailers and their customers be sources of lower costs for PJM states while providing fertile ground for innovative consumer products. https://lnkd.in/gZBxKADw
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Casey Baker shared thisThe ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) Spring Technical Workshop - Great panels, and amazing snacks!
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One thing they didn't mention is the immense number of recent UNR grads that you have helped shepherd into the industry over the last 20+ years. I still remember the tour you gave us as interns back when you were running Tracy. Glad to see you recognized!
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Caleb Mayer Yes. That is exactly what can be done. FERC is expected to release an order of some form at the end of June that will hopefully allow for this type of participation. I would rather see storage than thermal generation, but the need is going to be so infrequent that it's better in either case compared to building new massive thermal plants to serve an increasingly small number of hours per year.
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Casey Baker liked thisCasey Baker liked thisIn a recent episode of United States Energy Association's Power Sector podcast, Grid Strategies Director of Research and Policy, Zachary Zimmerman, discusses the findings of the "2025 Transmission Planning and Development Report Card," with host Herman Trabish. The Report Card, which was led by Zach and supported by Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), was released in February and provides an updated assessment of regional and interregional #transmission planning and development across ten regions of the U.S. Listen to the episode for high-level takeaways and discussion of where improvements are still needed: https://lnkd.in/eQcr9R_K Plus, download the full 2025 Report Card here: https://lnkd.in/eivBuKm7
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Casey Baker liked thisNew Wolf Pack Way banners going up in the quad today (April 27), including this one of Nevada Engineering alum Jesse Murray! A senior VP at NV Energy, Jesse Murray also serves on the Nevada Engineering Advisory Board and is a recipient of the Scrugham Medal, the college's award recognizing oustanding alumni. #NevadaEngineering #UNREngineering NV Energy Jesse Murray -
Casey Baker liked thisIt's an honor to be included on the Wolf Pack Way on the historic quadrangle of the University of Nevada 24 years after graduating there. #nevadaengineering #gopackCollege of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno
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Casey Baker liked thisNew Wolf Pack Way banners going up in the quad today (April 27), including this one of Nevada Engineering alum Jesse Murray! A senior VP at NV Energy, Jesse Murray also serves on the Nevada Engineering Advisory Board and is a recipient of the Scrugham Medal, the college's award recognizing oustanding alumni. #NevadaEngineering #UNREngineering NV Energy Jesse Murray -
Casey Baker liked thisCasey Baker liked thisI'm so excited to share two new grid reliability resources today! 📈 We've developed a new Reliability Dashboard, hosted on RMI's Utility Transition Hub, where you can interactively explore 10 years of US electric grid reliability data, and compare outcomes state-by-state or utility-by-utility: https://lnkd.in/g5UY3Kbj 🤓 To help understand reliability data at a deeper level, and what we can do to improve it affordably, check out our companion article that showcases some neat analyses made possible with our Dashboard data: https://lnkd.in/gapTrmHC
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Casey Baker liked thisCasey Baker liked thisAnnouncing the second round of experts who will be speaking at our Northwest Transmission Summit next week in Boise! Panel 2—Looking Ahead: Opportunities to Expand the Transmission System Many opportunities exist to expand the grid to meet future needs. Panelists will share about the utility and regional plans to expand our regional grid around three key strategies: optimizing the current grid, increasing capacity along existing corridors, and a small set of new projects that will reinforce the system and access the lowest cost resources available to meet our energy demands. Panelists: Casey Baker, Senior Program Manager, GridLab Hamody Hindi, Manager of Transmission Planning, Bonneville Power Administration Kyle Unruh, MBA, PMP, Director, Montana & Idaho, Renewable Northwest Curtis Westhoff, System Consulting Engineer, Idaho Power Planning Department Moderator: Shanna Brownstein, Utility Partnerships, GridCARE Learn more about our panelists: https://lnkd.in/gpiU72wc We hope to see you in Boise! ☺️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gicMBZ7H
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