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Oct. 20 Agenda

Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience

• 9:00 pm – Welcoming Remarks by Darryll Pines, Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMD
  
• 9:15 pm – Keynote: “ Environment, and Society: Increasing Grid Resilience Through Analysis of Interacting Uncertainties," Ghassem R. Asrar, Ph.D., Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• 9:45 pm – Keynote: “ A System Operator’s Resilience Wish List," Tom Bowe, Executive Director of Reliability and Compliance, PJM Interconnection
• 10:15 pm – 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; Presentation Title: “Maryland Resiliency Through Microgrids”
  Ken Geisler, Vice President of Strategy for Siemens Smart Grid , Siemens USA; Presentation Title: “Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience in an Evolving Climat”
  Prof. Eric Wachsman , Director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center; Presentation Title: “Distributed Generation & Storage to Improve Grid Resiliency”
  Prof. Alireza Khaligh , Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD; Presentation Title: “Plug-In Electric Vehicles and Grid Integration of EVs”
• 1:00 pm – End of Event