Snohomish County PUD Clean Energy Technologies

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University of Washington EE 500 seminar "Snohomish County PUD Clean Energy Technologies"

 

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  • Date: 05 Jan 2024
  • Time: 12:00 AM UTC to 01:00 AM UTC
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  • 1400 NE Campus Parkway
  • Seattle, Washington
  • United States 98195
  • Building: Mary Gates Hall
  • Room Number: Room 251
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  • Contact Event Host

  • Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington   

    kirschen@uw.edu

  • Co-sponsored by University of Washington - Seattle

  Speakers

Snohomish County PUD

Topic:

Clean Energy Technologies - Snohomish County PUD

  • Scott Gibson:  Manager – Energy Storage and Emerging Technology
  • Alex Chorey:  Principal Engineer – Energy Storage and Emerging Technology
  • Jessica Spahr: Program Manager - Energy Storage and Emerging Technology

Biography:

Scott Gibson is the Manager for the Energy Storage & Emerging Technologies Department at
Snohomish County PUD.
He is a Professional Electrical Engineer and a 1987 graduate from the University of Wyoming.
After graduation, Scott worked for Boeing and then with a consulting company
designing electrical systems for commercial and industrial facilities.
In 2000, Scott joined the PUD where he had the opportunity to work on the development of a
tidal generation project, assist with the construction of two “run of the river” hydroelectric
projects and then be the project manager for the PUD’s first state-of-the-art utility scale
microgrid.
Alex Chorey is a Professional Electrical Engineer and has worked for Snohomish County PUD for
over 15 years. After graduating from Gonzaga University in 2007, he joined the PUD’s
distribution and transmission engineering group to build and maintain the electrical grid in
Snohomish County. After spending much of his career focused on building the infrastructure to
deliver power to customers, he transitioned to his current role in the Energy Storage and
Emerging Technologies group which is working to ensure that the PUD has reliable capacity
resources to flow through that infrastructure. Alex is a Washington native and is excited to be a
part of the development of clean energy resources in the Pacific Northwest.
Jessica Spahr is a project manager in the Energy Storage and Emerging Technologies group at
Snohomish PUD. She graduated from the University of Washington with a BS in Atmospheric
Sciences and University of Denver with an MS in Environmental Policy and Management. She
has held a variety of environmental, renewable energy, and grant reporting roles at the PUD
since 2007, including the environmental lead for the Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project, Arlington
Microgrid, and PUD’s hydroelectric projects. She is passionate about supporting clean energy in
Washington state and beyond.




Agenda

Snohomish County PUD – Recently created a new department which will focus on clean energy technologies to help prepare for the future.  The new department is called Energy Storage and Emerging Technologies and is just 10 months old.   Our first big projects will be the state’s largest battery energy storage system – a 25MW/100MWh lithium-ion battery located in Arlington, Washington -and – a microgrid with the Tulalip Tribes which will utilize solar and lithium Ion battery storage.    These new systems are needed to provide carbon-free generation capacity to meet load growth due to electrification of buildings and transportation, an ever-increasing population, colder winters, and hotter summers.   We use to add generation and/or capacity with gas fired peaking plants -but- the Washington Clean Energy Transformation Act – CETA -  is requiring that Washington electric utilities be 100% carbon free by 2045.  During the past 10 years the PUD has constructed and operated a 2MW lithium-ion battery storage system, a 2MW vanadium flow battery and a microgrid that included stationary and mobile energy storage (V2G – Vehicle-to-grid) .