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Cybersecurity and Digitalization Webinar Series

Market Monitoring in the Australian Electricity Market

February 2nd, 2021
This webinar will feature a presentation by Scott Johnston, director at the Australian Energy Regulator. He will discuss how market monitoring takes place within Australia’s electricity-market framework.

Scott Johnston

Job Title: 
Director for monitoring and reporting
Organization: 
Australian Energy Regulator

Scott Johnston is employed at the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) as a Director responsible for monitoring and reporting on the performance of the wholesale electricity market, including the effectiveness of competition in the market. His team also surveys the market to detect breaches of relevant legislation. Previously, he worked as an Economic Analyst at Mitsubishi Motors Australia, and as an analyst at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia. Scott has a Degree in Economics and Politics from Flinders University.

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Michael Green

Job Title: 
General Manager, Nuclear Power
Organization: 
Arizona Public Service
Michael Green is the General Manager of the Nuclear Power division of the Arizona Public Service.
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Bruce Hallbert

Job Title: 
Director, Technical Integration Office, LWR Program
Organization: 
Idaho National Laboratory
Bruce Hallbert, Ph.D., is the Director of the Nuclear Safety and Regulatory Research Division. As Division Director, he oversees research and development programs conducted for government agencies, with private industry and industrial partners, and with international organizations. Activities within the division which he oversees include: Digital Instrumentation & Control Systems at nuclear installations, prognostics & diagnostics for process control applications; visualization and modeling for advanced nuclear energy systems; human factors and Human Reliability Analysis; Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA); operating experience analyses; and safety analyses of nuclear systems. Dr. Hallbert received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University with dissertation research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, specializing in Reliability Engineering. He has numerous publications and technical reports and has held numerous positions including the Research Pathway Lead of Advanced Instrumentation and Controls for the joint DOE-Industry collaborative program of research and development to support long term sustainability of Light Water Reactors. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM), an association that promotes the use and standardization of risk and reliability technologies for use in the development and management of technical systems. He has also served as U.S. Representative to the IAEA Technical Working Group on Instrumentation & Controls for Nuclear Power Plants and is a member of IEEE Power Engineering Society.
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Green Hydrogen: The New Utility Frontier

January 15th, 2021
There is a growing overproduction of electricity from solar and wind, but solar in particular, especially in the Southwest. Utilities are in a rush to find ways of saving this electricity and balancing their systems. Batteries and other storage systems are all on the table, along with what may have the most promise: green hydrogen. This is hydrogen made by electrolysis, using surplus electricity.

Branko Terzic

Job Title: 
Managing Director
Organization: 
BRG LLC

The Honorable Branko Terzic is an internationally recognized regulator, management consultant, and expert witness in the energy, public utility, and infrastructure industries.

He has experience in the electric, natural gas pipeline and distribution, liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil pipeline, hydroelectric, and water utility industries.

Mr. Terzic’s areas of expertise are national and international utility regulation, valuation and depreciation, rate and tariff studies, and regulatory policy for conventional, renewable, and distributed electricity resources.

Mr. Terzic’s four-decade career has included service as a commissioner on the State of Wisconsin Public Service Commission and Commissioner for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; international and domestic consulting to management and governments; and experience as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of an NYSE-listed holding company with a subsidiary regulated public utility and unregulated operations.

In the United States, Mr. Terzic has experience as an expert witness before state public-service commissions and committees of Congress. His international energy experience includes serving as regional managing partner for a major professional services and audit firm in central and eastern Europe and chairmanship of an international committee of experts on cleaner electricity under the UN Economic Commission for Europe.

Additional experience includes:

  • Development and leadership of a stakeholder and issues workshop for management employees of a Midwestern investor-owned electric utility
  • Development and presentation of three- and five-day training programs in electric utility regulation for management employees of three US investor-owned electric utilities
  • Preparation of comprehensive restructuring study and program for commercialization of a state-owned electric utility system in Eastern Europe in advance of European Union membership
  • Development of a privatization plan for a state-owned Eastern European electric utility system
  • Recommendation of plan for the creation of an independent regulatory agency for the electric industry in a Caribbean nation
  • Preparation of a study of options for funding nuclear power decommissioning for an Asian government
  • Preparation of a study of options for treatment of potential stranded costs in the electric power industry for the government of an Asian country
  • Presentation of current strategic issues in the electric power industry based on global trends for the board of directors of a state-owned electric system
  • Executive coaching and training for new CXO officer of a multi-state investor-owned utility in electric utility regulation and strategic issues
  • Testimony before a state public-service commission on FERC natural gas pipeline regulatory policy for an investor-owned natural gas distribution system
  • Testimony before a state public-service commission on state regulatory policy concerning affiliate interest transactions for an investor-owned natural gas distribution company
  • Testimony before a state public-service commission on depreciation policy and rates for an investor-owned telephone system
  • Testimony before a state public-service commission on decommissioning costs for a nuclear power plant
     

Employment History
Branko Terzic & Associates, Inc.
President
2014 – 2015

Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions
Executive director
2012 – 2014

Deloitte Services LP
Regulatory policy leader
1999 – 2014

Deloitte & Touche Central Europe LLP
Regional managing partner of resources, energy & infrastructure
1999 – 2004

Yankee Energy System, Inc.
Chairman, president and CEO
1994 – 1998

Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting
Managing director
1993 -1994

US  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Commissioner
1990 – 1993

AUS Consultants
Group vice president
1986 – 1990

State of Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Commissioner
1981 – 1986

Terzic and Mayer Public Utility Consulants
Partner
1979 – 1981

Associated Utility Services, Inc.
Vice president
1976 – 1979

American Appraisal Associates, Inc.
Staff appraiser
1969 – 1971, 1974 – 1976

Wisconsin Electric Power Company
Special investigations engineer
1972 – 1974
 

Professional Affiliations
Energy Efficiency Forum Executive Committee
Member

Society of Depreciation Professionals
Member

Society of Utility Regulatory Financial Analysts
Member

Association of Energy Engineers
Member

The Natural Gas Roundtable
Member

Energy Bar Association
Member

US Association for Energy Economics
Member

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Senior member

The Washington Campus MBA Programs
Faculty member
 

Community/Civic Involvement
FinMetrix LLC
Chairman
April 2015

State of Wisconsin Racing Board (state official in part-time capacity), Madison, Wisconsin
Chairman
May 27, 1988–October 19, 1990

National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University
Board member
1988-1990

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Bill Hederman

Job Title: 
Senior Fellow
Organization: 
Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Bill Hederman is a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. He teachers the core course: Introduction to Energy Policy, as well as being part of the Wharton Executive Education Faculty for the "Futures of Utilities" program. In addition, he advises 3 startup firms, two in demand-side management and one in advanced encryption technology.

He also currently serves as a Senior Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he is teaching Geopolitics of Energy for the joint CSIS_Maxwell School masters program. A retired Deloitte Director, Bill is now an independent senior adviser at Deloitte and Touche. He served as senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, providing leadership on Department of Energy (DOE) missions to Ukraine, the Baltics, and Germany. In this position, he was also the chief architect for the analytic framework developed for DOE's groundbreaking Quadrennial Energy Review.

In the corporate sector, he was vice president for Business Development and Strategic Initiatives at Columbia Transmission Companies on the management team that brought Columbia out of bankruptcy. During the Enron and California crises, he joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and formed the Office of Market Oversight and Investigations, which has been credited with playing a major role in the restoration of confidence in electricity and natural gas regulatory oversight.

Hederman began his professional career as a systems integration engineer at Bell Labs in the directorate that later developed the cell phone system. He served on the RAND Corporation's pioneering technology demonstrations research team, and was the Congressional Budget Office's first energy budget analyst. He led the establishment of: the policy analysis department at INGAA (pipeline association), the International Energy Agency's gas technology center, and the Washington office for RJ Rudden Associates (now Black & Veatch).

Hederman holds engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Notre Dame, and a professional degree (M.P.P.) from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Call for CVs: Expert Advisors for Transmission System Operator Framework Review and Capacity Building for Energy Regulatory Commission of Thailand Staff

United States Energy Association
Asia EDGE (Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy) Indo-Pacific Energy Market Investment and Modernization
Call for CVs – Expert Advisors for Natural Gas Transmission System Operator Framework Review and Capacity Building for Energy Regulatory Commission of Thailand Staff


CALL FOR CVs – Expert Advisors for Transmission System Operator Framework Review and Capacity Building for Energy Regulatory Commission Staff 

Jack Weixel

Job Title: 
Senior Director, Gas, Power, & Energy Futures
Organization: 
S&P Globlal Commodity Insights

Jack is a Senior Director with S&P Global Commodity Insights and plays a key role in product development and client support focused on modeling real-time, short-term and long-term forecasts of natural gas supply, demand and storage. He comes to S&P Global from OPIS where he helped build that company's first ever natural gas fundamentals service, the PointLogic Energy Suite. Prior to joining OPIS and S&P Global, Jack was a director for Bentek Energy, managing its North American Natural Gas, European Gas, and GIS business units in addition to serving on the company's Senior Leadership Team. He previously led the company's Client Services division along with the company's Midcontinent and Canadian natural gas desks. Before joining Bentek in 2006, Jack spent seven years as a senior energy regulatory consultant for the EOP Group, Inc. in Washington, DC after working in the U.S. Senate.

Jack holds a Master in Business Administration from George Washington University and a degree in Finance from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He also serves on the board of directors for Energy Outreach Colorado and Denver CASA.

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