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Host: Todd Snitchler, President and CEO, Electric Power Supply Association
Guest: Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President & Chief Engineer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
During the winter months, grid reliability is vital to keeping the nation running through extreme weather. Credit: iStock/kev303
In October’s episode of Energy Solutions, NERC Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer Mark Lauby discusses with EPSA CEO Todd Snitchler the reasons for NERC’s recent reliability concerns going into the winter months. Lauby emphasizes the importance of maintaining energy reserves, taking a realistic approach to the timing of the energy transition, and other measures to keep the lights on.
“It’s one thing to provide incentives for different types of technologies. But as you drive other technologies out using those incentives, you’ve got to make sure that you do that in such a way that the endpoint is not just – I understand that we want it to be a green endpoint. We also want it to be reliable, secure, and resilient grid of the future.”
Mark Lauby, North American Electric Reliability Corporation
Chapters
1:08 | Plugged In: How Mark Got Started in Energy
2:24 | We Need to Manage the Change: NERC’s Reliability Focus
5:49 | How NERC Addresses Drought in Reliability Planning
7:56 | Winter Is Coming: What NERC Is Watching for the Winter Assessment
10:11 | “We’ve Got to Get it Right”: Planning for Reliability With a New Set of Resources
13:58 | “Energy Is King”: New Planning Parameters
20:20 | Will There Be an Answer? Gas-Electric Coordination
24:06 | “A Much Longer Bridge”: The Future for Natural Gas
26:14 | How do we promote reliability while addressing climate change?
29:58 | How NERC Is Tackling Cybersecurity Threats
33:23 | What policymakers need to know about reliability
35:11 | Working together to ensure reliability
Production
Producer, Audio Editor: Christina Nyquist, senior director, communications, Electric Power Supply Association
Production Associate: Frances Owen, communications associate, Electric Power Supply Association
