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Energy Management Webinar Series: Rising to the Challenge of the Energy Transition and its impact on operations

May 16th, 2023

On May 16th, USEA hosted the 6th installment of our Energy Management webinar series hosted by USAID's Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI), with guest speakers from New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and PJM Internconnection. They discussed the ongoing renewable energy transition and the challenges that it can pose to operations for the power sector.

USEA Now - May 2023

April 27th, 2023
USEA Now

Markham Hislop

Job Title: 
Publisher and Journalist
Organization: 
Energi Media
Markham Hislop is a Canadian energy and climate journalist. He hosts the Energi Talks podcast, conducts video interviews with experts from around the world, writes the Markham On Energy political analysis column, and writes about the energy future.
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Erin Autin

Job Title: 
Senior Director of Research and Content
Organization: 
Zpryme
Senior Director of Research & Content at Zpryme.
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Kyle Pynn

Job Title: 
Director Transportation Electrification
Organization: 
Burns & McDonnell
Kyle is a Director Transportation Electrification within Burns & McDonnell's Transmission and Distribution Practice.
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Lon Huber

Job Title: 
Senior Vice President of Pricing and Customer Solutions
Organization: 
Duke Energy
Lon serves as the senior vice president to the Pricing & Customer solutions team at Duke Energy. His focus is leading the strategy and delivery of product and service portfolios spanning all customer types, with a focus on revenue generation and carbon savings.
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Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud

Job Title: 
Director for e-Mobility
Organization: 
ConEdison
Dr. Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud completed her Ph.D. on measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background in 2010 from Columbia University and is now the section manager of electric vehicles at Con Edison, where she has worked on a variety of projects related to energy generation, storage, and distribution.
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Phil Dion

Job Title: 
Senior Vice President
Organization: 
EEI

Phil Dion is the Senior Vice President of customer solutions at The Edison Electric Institute (EEI). Dion comes to EEI from American Electric Power, where he held several leadership roles since joining the company in 2015

At AEP, Phil served as vice president of technology business development, vice president of customer policy solutions and insights, vice president and interim chief customer officer, and vice president of federal affairs. Prior to AEP, he was senior vice president of public policy and customer solutions for UNS Energy Corp. and was the chief of staff to former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission commissioner Marc Spitzer. Dion has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Arizona and a juris doctorate and master’s degree in finance from Santa Clara University.

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Utilities and the Onslaught of EVs--How Will They Be Accommodated?

May 4th, 2023

Sometime between now and the decade’s end, the nation’s electric utilities will begin to contend with a surge. That is when electric vehicles (EVs) will begin arriving in numbers large enough to tax the edge of the grid and to have utilities scrambling for ways of accommodating the new demand in peak hours. 

S&P Global projects that 40 percent of new car sales in 2030 will be electric; other studies’ projections go as high as 50 percent. 

Advancing Modern Power Through Utility Partnerships (AmpUp)

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