Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2023 | Infocast | 12 June 2023 | Hyatt Regency Crystal City At Reagan National Airport, 2799 Richmond Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202, USA

This events promises to turbo-boost the clean energy transition, creating a staggering need - and opportunity - for new transmission development and investment. Multiple studies suggest that the U.S. high-voltage transmission system needs to increase its annual growth rate to 250% of the rate over the last decade in order to meet the Inflation Reduction Act’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential—let alone tackle the challenges of growing demand from electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other electrification. Grid operators must also streamline processes to interconnect the new renewable resources joining queues at an unprecedented pace. This suggests the need for a total projected increase of 91,000 miles of new transmission lines in the U.S. within the next 13 years—in comparison with the 193 miles of 230-kV and larger transmission lines that started operating last year.

While the transmission asset market is poised for epochal growth, many challenges remain given long transmission project and approval times, in incorporating advanced technologies to existing networks, and in utilizing new approaches to interconnecting renewable projects far more rapidly to the grid. Only those understanding how these massive changes will play out will be able to position themselves to profit optimally under this new regime, whether as a transmission investor or power system stakeholder.

It will bring together the leading policymakers, senior executives and leading experts working to reimagine interconnection and transmission planning processes to meet the needs of the clean energy transition. They will address the potential solutions to generation interconnection procedure reforms, optimizing planning processes and more holistically allocating costs based on benefits yielded for both system loads and new generation, including:

• Will establishing processes to identify geographic zones having the potential for large amounts of renewable generation development, and plan transmission to facilitate the integration of these resources, accelerate the massive needed transmission buildout?
• Are reforms needed to improve the coordination between the regional transmission planning and cost allocation and generator interconnection processes?
• What impacts are cluster studies and multi-benefit planning having on identifying and justifying tens of billions of dollars in transmission to enhance reliability, enable the addition of vast amounts of clean energy assets, and reduce congestion and fuel costs
• What are the most effective ways to incorporate extreme weather resilience, offshore wind, grid-enhancing technologies and battery storage in transmission planning and operations?

Attend this events after over 20 years still the only event focusing on the business and business environment of transmission asset investment and development — and get the answers you need to fully participate in the remarkable investment opportunities of the new era. Review our carefully researched agenda and remarkable faculty and reserve your place today!

2023 Speakers

Jeff Dennis
Deputy Director for Transmission Development, US DOE GRID DEPLOYMENT OFFICE

Ammar Qusaibaty
i2X Co-Lead, US DOE

David M. Turk
Deputy Secretary, US DOE

Kamran Ali
Vice President, Transmission Planning, American Electric Power (AEP)

Riley Allen
Commissioner
VERMONT PUBLIC, Utility Commission

Ali Amirali
Senior Vice President, Lotus Infrastructure Partners

Girish Behal, PMP
Vice President, Projects and Business Development, New York Power Authority

Noel Black
Senior Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs, Southern Company

Johnny Casana
Director of North America Strategy, Pattern Energy

Ali Chowdhury, PhD, MBA
Senior Vice President - Transmission, Avantus

Stephen Coterillo
Engineer II, Reliability Assessment, North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Lathrop Craig
Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, PSEG

Ed De Varona
Vice President – Transmission & Substation, Florida Power & Light

Vandan Divatia
Vice President, Transmission Policy, Interconnections & Compliance, Eversource Energy

Rodica Donaldson
Senior Director, Transmission Analytics, EDF Renewables

Kimberly Duffley
Commissioner, North Carolina Utilities Commission

Maura Farver
Distributed Energy Technology Strategy and Policy Director, Duke Energy Carolinas

Larry Gasteiger
Executive Director, Wires Group

Rob Gramlich
President, Grid Strategies LLC

Neil Millar
Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Planning, CAISO

Stuart Nachmias
President & CEO, Con Edison Transmission, Inc.

Bhaskar Ray
VP of Interconnection & Development Engineering, QCELLS USA Corporation

Kathleen Staks
Board Chair, Colorado Electric Transmission Authority

David Townley
Director of Public Policy, CTC Global Corporation

Kris Zadlo
Chief Commercial & Technology Officer, Grid United

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Power Engineers

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Akin
• Ampacimon
• CTC Global
• Energy Re
• Enerzinx
• ICF
• Scott Madden

SLIDO Q&A SPONSOR:
• SAM Companies

HOSPITALITY SPONSOR:
• Lindsey Systems