BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Mountain BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151102T140113Z UID:B44862BC-8169-11E5-A050-0050568D2FB3 DTSTART;TZID=US/Mountain:20151112T173000 DTEND;TZID=US/Mountain:20151112T191500 DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday\, November 12th. At this meeting we will be briefly going over the coming 2016 year and possib le tours and technical talks. After this discussion\, one of our members\, Gary Simonson will be giving a talk on Transmission Expansion Planning in the West. I am really excited about this topic and it's relevancy in the ever-changing energy industry.\n\nMr. Simonson joined Colorado Springs Uti lities(CSU) in 2014 and he currently works in transmission planning. As a Transmission Planning Engineer\, Mr. Simonson develops tools\, develops ba se cases\, acts as the subject matter expert for modeling standards\, runs studies\, and produces reports for the CSU planning horizon.\n\nPrior to joining CSU\, Mr. Simonson was a Staff Engineer in the grant funded Transm ission Expansion Planning group at the Western Electricity Coordinating Co uncil (WECC). In that role\, he developed the 10 year transmission topolog y for WECC’s “Common Case” production cost model (PCM) dataset\, dev eloped the 2024 power flow model used in the PCM\, took on numerous effort s to introduce synergy between data and modeling used for production cost and power flow studies\, performed and coordinated production cost and pow er flow analyses to identify transmission needs and reliability challenges under a variety of possible energy futures. He also supported the develop ment of WECC’s 20-year capital expansion model\, and developed software tools to automate frequent tasks and report study results. Mr. Simonson wa s the author of the 2024 WECC Common Case Transmission Assumptions\, acted as a subject matter expert for WECC’s state of the interconnection repo rt\, and was responsible for analyzing the qualified WECC 8760 path flow d ata.\n\nPrior to joining the transmission planning group at WECC\, Mr. Sim onson was a Compliance Engineer at WECC. In that role\, he led and partici pated in numerous on site and off site operations and compliance audits in the western interconnect. Mr. Simonson acted as a subject matter expert i n resource balancing\, demand balancing\, and modeling Federal Energy Regu latory Commission compliance standards.\n\nMr. Simonson has given technica l presentations in regional policy and system reliability forums including the Energy Policy Institute’s (EPI) Annual Energy Policy Research Confe rence\, WECC Compliance User Group\, and many WECC Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee (TEPPC) stakeholder meetings. He also serves at the chair of the Douglas\, Elbert\, El Paso\, and Pueblos Counties (DEEP) subcommittee which studies and promotes regional transmission system solut ions for the load serving porting of that area.\n\nI hope to see you on Th ursday\, November 12th at 5:30pm at the Leon Young Service Center located at 1521 S. Hancock Expressway\, 80903.\nI plan to have pizza and soda\, so please register if you are planning to attend.\n\nSpeaker(s): \, \, Gary Simonson\, \n\nRoom: Pikes Peak Conference Room\, Bldg: Leon Young Service Center\, 1521 S Hancock Expressway\, Colorado Springs\, Colorado\, United States\, 80903 LOCATION:Room: Pikes Peak Conference Room\, Bldg: Leon Young Service Center \, 1521 S Hancock Expressway\, Colorado Springs\, Colorado\, United States \, 80903 ORGANIZER:us.martine-denise.long@ieee.org SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:PES - Transmission Expansion Planning in the West URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/36885 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday \, November 12th. At this meeting we will be briefly going over the coming 2016 year and possible tours and technical talks. After this discussion\, one of our members\, Gary Simonson will be giving a talk on Transmission Expansion Planning in the West. I am really excited about this topic and i t's relevancy in the ever-changing energy industry.</p>\n<p>Mr. Simonson j oined Colorado Springs Utilities(CSU) in 2014 and he currently works in tr ansmission planning. As a Transmission Planning Engineer\, Mr. Simonson de velops tools\, develops base cases\, acts as the subject matter expert for modeling standards\, runs studies\, and produces reports for the CSU plan ning horizon.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Prior to joining CSU\, Mr. Simonson was a Staff Engineer in the grant funded Transmission Expansion Planning g roup at the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC). In that role\ , he developed the 10 year transmission topology for WECC&rsquo\;s &ldquo\ ;Common Case&rdquo\; production cost model (PCM) dataset\, developed the 2 024 power flow model used in the PCM\, took on numerous efforts to introdu ce synergy between data and modeling used for production cost and power fl ow studies\, performed and coordinated production cost and power flow anal yses to identify transmission needs and reliability challenges under a var iety of possible energy futures. He also supported the development of WECC &rsquo\;s 20-year capital expansion model\, and developed software tools t o automate frequent tasks and report study results. Mr. Simonson was the a uthor of the 2024 WECC Common Case Transmission Assumptions\, acted as a s ubject matter expert for WECC&rsquo\;s state of the interconnection report \, and was responsible for analyzing the qualified WECC 8760 path flow dat a.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Prior to joining the transmission planning grou p at WECC\, Mr. Simonson was a Compliance Engineer at WECC. In that role\, he led and participated in numerous on site and off site operations and c ompliance audits in the western interconnect. &nbsp\;Mr. Simonson acted as a subject matter expert in resource balancing\, demand balancing\, and mo deling Federal Energy Regulatory Commission compliance standards.</p>\n<p> &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Mr. Simonson has given technical presentations in regional policy and system reliability forums including the Energy Policy Institut e&rsquo\;s (EPI) Annual Energy Policy Research Conference\, WECC Complianc e User Group\, and many WECC Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Commit tee (TEPPC) stakeholder meetings. He also serves at the chair of the Dougl as\, Elbert\, El Paso\, and Pueblos Counties (DEEP) subcommittee which stu dies and promotes regional transmission system solutions for the load serv ing porting of that area.</p>\n<p><br />I hope to see you on Thursday\, No vember 12th at 5:30pm at the Leon Young Service Center located at 1521 S. Hancock Expressway\, 80903.<br />I plan to have pizza and soda\, so please register if you are planning to attend.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR