Speaker Biographies
Matthew Harward - Southwest Power Pool, Inc Matthew Harward has worked in the public utility industry for more than 16 years, starting his career in Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) legal department as a staff attorney. He currently works as Manager of SPP’s Reliability Standards department, which facilitates SPP’s coordinated efforts to track the development and implementation of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (“NERC”) Reliability Standards and other documents, and supports SPP’s compliance outreach. During his career, his experience includes regulatory and administrative law matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, open access transmission tariffs and service agreements, wholesale rate recovery for transmission facilities, electricity markets, Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) seams issues, and system planning and operations. Matthew is a member of the drafting team for the current Project 2021-07 Extreme Cold Weather Grid Operations, Preparedness, and Coordination.
Heather Polzin - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Heather is a graduate of James Madison University and the University of Virginia School of Law. A former General Counsel to the Maryland Public Service Commission, she joined FERC in 2010 and has served as co-lead on three blackout inquiries and one near-miss inquiry. She also wrote the report for three of the inquiries, including the November 2021 report on the February 2021 cold weather event in Texas and the south-central U.S.
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