Event
Mpact Week: Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience
Monday, October 20, 2014
10:00 a.m.
NOAA Center for Weather & Climate Prediction, College Park, MD
Elise Carbonaro
301.405.6501
ecarbo@umd.edu
http://www.eng.umd.edu/html/mpact/index.html
Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD
October 20, 2014
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Agenda:
9:00 – Welcoming Remarks by Darryll Pines, Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMD
9:15 – Keynote: “Environment, and Society: Increasing Grid Resilience ThroughAnalysis of Interacting Uncertainties,” Ghassem R. Asrar, Ph.D., Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9:45 – Keynote: “A System Operator’s Resilience Wish List,” Tom Bowe, Executive Director of Reliability and Compliance, PJM Interconnection
10:15 – Panel: "Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience in an Evolving Climate”
Panel Moderator: Robert Orr, Professor and Dean, UMD School of Public Policy
Panelists:
- Abigail Ross Hopper, Esq., Director of the Maryland Energy Administration;
- Ken Geisler, Vice President of Strategy for Siemens Smart Grid, Siemens USA;
- Prof. Eric Wachsman, Director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center;
- Prof. Alireza Khaligh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD
11:45 – Poster Session and Reception (w/ Light Lunch)
1:00 – End of Event
This event is a part of the University of Maryland’s Mpact Week on Disaster Resilience.