Anna Lafoyiannis

Technical Leader
EPRI
Biography: 

Anna Lafoyiannis is a Technical Leader in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at EPRI, supporting Program 178 on Resource planning for Electric Power Systems.

Her primary research areas include long-term electricity sector resource planning, risk analysis and investment decision-making under uncertainty. Prior to joining EPRI, she was supervisor of reliability assurance at Ontario’s IESO, where she developed its capacity market, set specifications for long term contracts and defined the grid services needed ensure reliability in the future. She also held leadership roles at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), including a term as chair of NERC's Reliability Assessment Subcommittee.

Anna holds a B.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo and M.Eng. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with an emphasis on Sustainable Energy from the University of Toronto.