Elli Ntakou of Eversource Energy

This talk will discuss various aspects of non-wires alternatives (NWAs) and will attempt to bring together industry and academic perspectives on the topic. First, the talk will discuss popular NWA technologies and applications in power systems. Then, a discussion of the methods to optimize and operationalize NWA solutions will be presented, looked at from the perspective of the utility as well as third parties, like regulatory bodies, developers and electric customers. Finally, the talk will focus on two critical topics around implementation in today’s power systems: analytics tools that can support NWA analyses and how the NWA applicability, technologies, planning and generally “a-day-in-the-life-of” an NWA will change in light of climate change and associated country-wide mitigation and adaptation efforts. 

Biography:

Dr. Elli Ntakou is the Manager of System Resilience and Reliability at Eversource Energy. In her role, she is responsible for implementing an enterprise-wide, model- and data-driven strategy for resilience and reliability planning to mitigate and adapt to climate change and to enable a modern, digital, resilient and decarbonized electric grid. Elli is also in charge of technical aspects of relevant regulatory compliance. Prior to that, Elli was a Senior Advisor with Quanta Technology where she was consulting a variety of clients on a breadth of technical areas like power markets, non-wires alternatives, grid modernization, integrated planning and electric assets’ M&As. Elli graduated from Boston University with a PhD in Systems Engineering in 2017 and has a Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Elli also serves as a reviewer in multiple IEEE conferences and journals.

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