Thank you to all who participated in a successful 2018 NECPUC Symposium. The contents of this page have been provided by the presenters.
Wholesale Markets Panel
- Ensuring System Reliability Through the Transition to a Cleaner Energy Future
Gordon van Welie, President and Chief Executive Officer, ISO-NE - Observations from New Hampshire
Hon. Kathryn Bailey, Commissioner, New Hampshire Public Utilties Commission
Water Panel
Understanding and Managing Risk in the Water Industry
- Southern Maine Water Supply Resiliency
Rick Knowlton, President, Maine Water Company - The Connecticut Water Plan
Lori Mathieu, Public Health Section Chief, Drinking Water Section, State of Connecticut Department of Public Health - Understanding and Managing Risk in the Water Industry: Drought Preparedness and Response
David Radka, Director of Water Resources and Planning, Connecticut Water - CT: Southwest Fairfield County Drought: How it Progressed, Our Response and Where We’re Going
Jeff Ulrich, Director of Supply Operations, Aquarion Water
Telecom Panel
Peering Behind the Curtain on Net Neutrality: What you really need to know
- A Brief History of Net Neutrality
Daniel Lyons, Associate Professor, Boston College - Net Neutrality: The Need for Pro-Consumer Protections to Preserve an Open Internet
Sarah Morris, Director of Open Internet Policy, Open Technology Institute
Technical Innovation Panel
Innovation at the Bleeding Edge: The future of the grid
- Power in Transition – Challenges, and Opportunities Ahead for the Changing Grid
Francis O’Sullivan, Director of Research, MIT Energy Initiative - Data! Data! Data!
Emilie Moeckel Bolduc, Vice President, New York Energy Manager, New York Power Authority - Grid Modernization in a Rural State: The View from Vermont
Anne Margolis, Renewable Energy Development Director, Vermont Department of Public Service
Natural Gas Panel
Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Natural Gas Distribution Systems
- Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Culture and the Regulatory Environment
Nathan Dore, Inspector, Maine Public Utilities Commission - Natural Gas Pipeline Accident: Manhattan, New York, March 12, 2014
Robert Hall, Director, National Transportation Safety Board, Office of Railroad, Pipeline, & Hazardous Materials Investigations - High Confidence Cross Bore Inspection Programs and Gas Utility Data Integration
Mark Bruce, Cross Bore Safety Association - Distribution Integrity Management: Risk Management for Natural Gas Pipeline Safety
Christopher LeBlanc, Vice President, Gas Operations, Unitil
Hair-Raising Hazards: Analytical Frameworks for Risk & Catastrophic Events
- Dependence and Interdependence in Critical Infrastructure
Andrew Bochman, Senior Cyber & Energy Security Strategist, Idaho National Labs - Networked Infrastructure Resilience – remarks
Susan Ginsburg, Co-Founder and President, Criticality Sciences - Hair Raising Hazards from AI, ML & IoT: Adaptive Response to Cyberphysical Risks
David Mordecai, Lead Investigator, RiskEcon Lab for Decision Metrics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University - Weather Induced Outage Risk Analysis
Richard B. Jones, SVP Research & Engineering, Hartford Steam Boiler
How Big a Buttress?: Regulation and Risk Management in the Face of High Impact, Low Frequency Events
- Risk 101 and decisionmaking in the face of uncertainty
Dalia Patino Echeverri, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy, Duke University - Avangrid Overview
Thorn Dickinson, Vice President-Business Development, Avangrid - Mitigating and Managing the Risk of a Cyberphysical Cat (Event)
Samantha Kappagoda, Investigator, RiskEcon Lab for Decision Metrics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University - Practical Risk Management Methods
Richard B. Jones, SVP Research & Engineering, Hartford Steam Boiler - Risk Management Interactive Session
Ethics CLE for Lawyers
- Limitations on Ex Parte Communications in New England
Hon. Martin Honigberg, Chair, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
Bill Hewitt, Roach Hewitt Ruprecht, Sanchez & Bischoff
* Ex Parte – State-by-state Materials
Metrics for Resilience in Theory and in Practice: A Workshop
Joe Eto, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Bradt, Director – Transmission Planning, Avangrid