Webinar: Integrated Planning: Foundations, Optimization, Guidebook

Featured Speakers: Aaron Burdick, Director of Integrated System Planning, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) and Jacob Kravits, Research and Development Lead, encoord

Webinar Abstract: Join us for this webinar covering highlights from ESIG’s latest reports on Integrated Planning.  Aaron Burdick will present key findings from two upcoming ESIG reports: Foundations of Integrated Planning and, Optimization for Integrated Electricity System Planning.  Jacob Kravits will present key findings from the upcoming Integrated Planning Guidebook.

Integrated Planning is a comprehensive energy system planning approach that coordinates across systems to develop affordable, reliable, and robust investment plans.  A four-part integrated planning framework is presented in the foundations paper.  The optimization paper explores the benefits of full-system capacity expansion optimization including the potential for endogenous identification of integrated planning solutions, lower-cost integrated system plans, and fewer iterations between planning models. The guidebook presents a practical approach that organizes integrated planning across four primary planning areas: generation, transmission, distribution, and customer planning.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the lead authors of these upcoming Integrated Planning reports.

About the Speakers: Aaron Burdick is a Director in E3’s Integrated System Planning practice area, focused on electricity system planning, utility strategy, and market design. At E3, he has led long-term capacity expansion, resource adequacy, and production cost modeling projects in California, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, and the Caribbean. Aaron currently leads E3’s thought leadership on integrated system planning, including E3’s whitepaper released in 2024 and E3’s ongoing coordination of the ESIG Integrated Planning task force. Before E3, Aaron worked at ICF, PG&E, and various non-profit organizations. He has an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Atmosphere and Energy) from Stanford University and a BS in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jacob Kravits leads Research and Development at encoord, where he focuses on integrating cutting-edge Data Science, Decision Making, and Power System Planning concepts into SAInt. Driven by a passion for turning data into actionable decisions, he has led open-source data visualization projects and published award-winning research in machine learning. Jacob holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his research focused on balancing the often-competing objectives of water and energy systems.

Moderator: Matt Schuerger, Senior Fellow, 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.