Webinar: From Goals to Plans: Improving Rigor, Transparency, and Decision-Making in Electricity Plans with Ambitious Policy Targets

Featured Speaker: Elaine Hart, Co-Founder and Principal, Sylvan Energy Analytics

About the Webinar: As 100% clean electricity and net-zero emissions requirements are being adopted in jurisdictions around the world, electricity system planners and regulators are being asked to answer a new and challenging question: how can we build a reliable, affordable, and fully decarbonized power system over the next 15 to 25 years? To explore the complexities of planning for electricity decarbonization, ESIG created a Clean Electricity Planning Task Force, convening industry planners and reviewing recent industry planning studies that include 100% clean and net-zero emissions policy requirements. The task force aimed to articulate the unique challenges of planning for completely decarbonized electricity systems, explore the resource options available to planners to meet these requirements, and make recommendations for conducting future planning studies. This webinar will walk through the task force’s recommendations for improving rigor, transparency, and decision-making in 100% clean electricity planning studies.

About the Speaker: Elaine is a co-founder and principal at Sylvan Energy Analytics and leads the company’s consulting practice. She brings fifteen years of experience in clean energy system planning, with expertise spanning integrated resource planning, resource adequacy, complex resource valuation, and clean energy policy design and implementation. Elaine has driven innovation in resource planning and decarbonization strategy from within a major investor-owned utility and has advised state agencies, utilities, non-profits, and developers on the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to cleaner energy systems. She holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and is an alumnus of Harvey Mudd College.

Registration Cost: FREE

Moderator: Trieu Mai, Visiting Fellow, ESIG

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.