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Webinar: U.S. Department of Energy’s National Transmission Planning Study Results
November 14, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Yamit Lavi
Featured Speaker: Yamit Lavi, Technical Advisor, Grid Deployment Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Webinar Abstract: The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the National Transmission Planning (NTP) Study, a set of long-term planning tools and analyses that examine a wide range of potential future scenarios through 2050 to identify pathways to maintain grid reliability, increase resilience, and reduce costs, while meeting local, regional, interregional, and national interests and supporting the changing energy landscape. This webinar will give an overview of the study which finds that the United States will need to approximately double to triple the 2020 transmission capacity by 2050 to meet demand growth and reliability needs, and hundreds of billions of dollars of cost savings can be achieved through substantial transmission expansion and interregional planning.
About the Speaker: Yamit Lavi serves as a technical advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy Grid Deployment Office, where she oversees a portfolio of projects focused on expanding interregional transmission to accelerate decarbonization while ensuring system reliability. She has over a decade of experience in power systems and has previously worked at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) as an operations engineer. Yamit holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Moderator: James Okullo, Director of System Planning, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.
