Andrew Calvert & Blake Poole of Evergy, Inc.

The Evergy Transmission Planning and Project Management team will provide an overview of the generation Interconnection process and the Transmission Owner/Operator's role in working with the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) and interconnecting generation owner/operator (GO/GOP).

Biography:

Andrew Calvert is a Project Manager with the Transmission and Substation Large Construction team at Evergy. Andrew received his electrical engineering degree from The Wichita State University. Andrew was born and raised in Wichita, KS, where he and his wife are currently raising their two teenagers. If Andrew is not working, he enjoys spending time with his kids, working on cars with his kids, and volunteering at his church.

Blake Poole is the Manager of Transmission Planning at Evergy. 

Dr. Antonio Conejo of The Ohio State University

The principles underlying the design of restructured electricity markets that are in-use today were developed over three decades ago when power systems were considerably different than they are today. Systems of the past typically relied on large dispatchable thermal generators. This can be contrasted with power systems today, which are experiencing increasing penetrations of weather-dependent renewable energy sources that have limited dispatchability. Additionally, power systems are experiencing growing adoption of distributed energy resources and novel uses of electric energy by end customers, which adds to demand uncertainty and variability. However, these technologies also provide opportunities for more active participation of the demand-side. Given these significant changes in the structure of electric power systems, we are at a unique point at which the assumptions of electricity market design can be re-evaluated. While this re-examination is largely driven by changes in power system structure, we can also rely on lessons learned from the past three decades of market-restructuring experience. In this presentation, we highlight some of the challenges in designing electricity markets brought about by changes in system structure. We also discuss a number of lessons learned from market designs that have been implemented. We then suggest some important principles that could underlie future reforms of electricity market designs and raise design questions that require further research and examination.

Biography:

Antonio J. Conejo, professor at the Integrated System Engineering Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US, received his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

He has published over 220 papers in JCR journals and is the author or coauthor of 14 books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill and CRC. He has been the principal investigator of many research projects financed by public agencies and the power industry and has supervised 25 PhD theses.

Dr. Conejo is the member of the following societies:

• National Academy of Engineering, Member 2024.
• IEEE Fellow, Class of 2004.
• INFORMS Fellow, Class of 2019.
• AAAS Fellow, Class of 2022.