Plenary Panel I: Learning of the Texas Blackout
08 August, 2021
- Tom Coleman, Chief Technical Adviser, NERC, “The Changing Resource Mix, Extreme Natural Events, and Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies – How these emerging risks contributed to the wide scale outages in ERCOT, SPP, and MISO during the February 2021 Cold Weather event”.
- Mark McGranaghan, Vice President, EPRI, “Resource Adequacy Lessons Learned and Future Requirements in a Decarbonized Future”
- Damir Novosel, President, Quanta Technologies, “Issues and Solutions in Achieving Electrical Power Delivery Resilience”
- Le Xie (Professor, TAMU) and Hao Zhu (Assistant Professor, UT Austin), “An Open-access Cross-domain Approach to Analyzing the Impact of Extreme Events on the Electricity Sector: What We Learned from COVID-19 and 2021 Texas Winter Outage”