Mpact Week: Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience
Monday, October 20, 2014
10:00 a.m.
NOAA Center for Weather & Climate Prediction, College Park, MD
For More Information:
Elise Carbonaro
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ecarbo@umd.edu
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Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience

NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD

October 20, 2014

9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Agenda:

9:00 – Welcoming Remarks by Darryll Pines, Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMD

9:15 – Keynote: “Environment, and Society: Increasing Grid Resilience ThroughAnalysis of Interacting Uncertainties,” Ghassem R. Asrar, Ph.D., Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

9:45 – Keynote: “A System Operator’s Resilience Wish List,” Tom Bowe, Executive Director of Reliability and Compliance, PJM Interconnection

10:15 – Panel: "Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience in an Evolving Climate”

Panel Moderator: Robert Orr, Professor and Dean, UMD School of Public Policy

Panelists:

• Abigail Ross Hopper, Esq., Director of the Maryland Energy Administration;
• Ken Geisler, Vice President of Strategy for Siemens Smart Grid, Siemens USA;
• Prof. Eric Wachsman, Director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center;
• Prof. Alireza Khaligh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD

11:45 – Poster Session and Reception (w/ Light Lunch)

1:00 – End of Event

This event is a part of the University of Maryland’s Mpact Week on Disaster Resilience.