Natural Gas and Electric Coordination Vision for the Future Webinar Tuesday, May 17, 2022
RAPA/Outreach - The webinar will provide a forum for experts in the gas industry, as well as electric utilities planning groups. The purpose is to raise awareness as we work together to understand and address the risk to reliability.
Objectives: To raise awareness of the growing risk associated with the growing dependence of natural gas and the need to incorporate/coordinate with the gas industry.
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TargetAudience This event will be of interest to Planning Authorities (PA) and Transmission Planners (TP)
The agenda allows time for Q&A after each presentation.Therefore, times listed may vary.
Agenda
Tuesday , May 17, 2022 All Times Eastern
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Richard Becker – SERC Senior Program Manager of Engineering
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Tom Coleman – NERC Chief Technical Advisor
9:10 a.m.
Industry Coordination Activities
Rick Stachowicz– SERC Principal Reliability Engineer, Situational Awareness & Events Analysis
9:35 a.m.
Reliance on Natural Gas and the Importanceof Communication and Coordination.
Tony Hall – LG&E and Ku Services Manager CIP Program (Industrial Control System and IT Security)
9:55 a.m.
Cyber/Physical Security of the Gas Infrastructure
Mark Babula - NE ISO Principal Engineer – System Planning
ISO New England Energy Security Timeline: 2004‒2025
10:20 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m.
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Tuesday , May 17, 2022 All Times Eastern
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Kimberly Denbow - American Gas Association Managing Director of Security & Operations
11:00 a.m.
Natural Gas – An Enabler of Electric Grid Resilience
Charles Phillips – TSA Pipeline Industry Engagement Manager
11:25 a.m.
TSA Security Directives – Cybersecurity
Brian Fitzpatrick – PJM Principal Fuel Supply Strategist
11:50 a.m.
Planning Challenges with the Growing Dependency on Natural Gas
Gaurav Karandikar - SERC Manager RAPA & Technical Services
SERC Initiatives – What’s Next
12:15 p.m.
Wrap-Up
12:25 p.m.
Richard Becker – SERC Senior Program Manager of Engineering
Adjourn
12:30 p.m.
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Speaker Biographies
Richard Becker - SERC Richard Becker is the Senior Program Manager of Engineering with SERC Reliability Corporation. The Engineering program at SERC promotes the reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system though collaboration in the areas of planning, engineering and reliability assessment. Mr. Becker has been at SERC since 2019. He has also worked at Florida Power and Light, LakelandElectric and the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council. Mr. Becker has over 21 years of industry experience in the areas of distribution design and planning, transmission planning and Regional reliability assessment. Mr. Becker has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida, with a focus on strategic and risk management. Mr. Becker received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida.
TomColeman –NERC ThomasColeman is Chief Technical Advisor at NERC. He works with industry and stakeholders to assess, report on, and provide recommendations to ensure the reliability of the North American Bulk Power System. Mr. Coleman leads the efforts around NERC’s natural gas risk strategy and is the NERC lead for NERC’s Electric Gas WorkingGroup. He has led initiatives for the NERC Reliability Issues Steering Committee as well as efforts around long term, short term and historical reliability assessments. Mr. Coleman joined NERC in 2014. Prior to joining NERC Mr. Coleman traded power and natural gas commodities and directed long term origination at JP Morgan and Williams Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida and his MBA from Vanderbilt University .
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Tony Hall – LG&E and Ku Services Tony Hall is currently the Manager, Critical InfrastructureProtection (CIP) Program at LG&E and KU Energy, a diversified Energy Services Company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Hall has held this position since 2011. During this period, he has served as an Industry Subject Matter Expert (ISME) for several SERC audits, coordinated and prepared for CIP mock audits in addition to LG&E and KU’s CIP Audits. Mr. Hall serves as the point person for CIP-related industry changes for LG&E and KU. He coordinates company responses from LG&E and KU as well as with the parent company, PPL Corporation. Mr. Hall is served two terms on the SERC Registered Entity Forum (REF) steering committee and is currently Chair of SERC Critical InfrastructureProtection Committee (CIPC) and SERC cyber member of NERC CIPC. He has also severed on two NERC standard drafting teams, as a member of the 2018 -02 CIP-008 Cyber Incident Reporting and as Vice-Chair for 2019-03 Cyber Security Supply Chain Risks. Mr. Hall has worked at LG&E and KU for 30 years, spending 17 years within the IT organization serving a variety of roles from Operations to Development. His last assignment in IT was Service Delivery Manager responsible for all development activities for the Power Plants, Transmission, Trading, Legal, and Communication departments. Also, while a member of IT, Mr. Hall led and participated on several international project teams with the previous parent company E ON AG located in Germany. Before transitioning to Manager, CIP Program, Mr. Hall served as the Manager of IT and Operational Auditing where his responsibilities included the internal audits of both CIP and the 693 Reliability Standards. Mr. Hall is a graduate of the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Computer Science/Electric Engineering, and a Master of Law from California Southern University. Mr. Hall holds the CRISC certification from ISACA. Rick Stachowicz - SERC Rick Stachowicz joined SERC as a Sr. Reliability Engineer in July of 2020 and was promoted to Principal Reliability Engineer in 2022. He has over 30 years of utility experience. He is an experienced real-time operator and team leader ensuring reliable and efficient operation of the bulk power system for over twenty years. He has a proven track record of successfully operating power systems, managing operators and engineers, designing transmission and distribution solutions, and leading complex projects with interdisciplinary teams within highly regulated conditions. Rick is a collaborative problem solver interpersonal and communication skills who fosters inclusive and positive relationships with internal and external customers. Having spent with superior most of his time in the control room, Rick thrives in fast-paced environments where attention to detail must be balanced with agility and creativity. He previously held positions as a Co-Gen Project Designer, Engineering Assistant, Sr. System Operator and Chicago Load Dispatcher with ComEd. He obtained his NERC RC Certificate and also worked as a Sr. System Operator with American Transmission Company and a Sr. Reliability Coordinator and Shift Manager with MISO.
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Mark Babula - NE ISO Mark Babula is a Principal Engineer in the Resource Studies & Assessmentsgroup within the System Planning department at ISO New England, located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Mark graduated from WesternNew England University in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986 with a master’s degree in Computer Science. Mark’s responsibilities at ISO New England include analysis of bulk electric power system reliability, generating unit availability, fuel/energy security assessments, and environmental analysis. He also serves as technical lead on issues pertaining to natural gas and liquid fuel use within the electric generation sector. Mark is Co-Chair of ISO New England’s Electric/Gas Operations Committee. Mark has over 40 years of experience within the electric power industry. During that time, has worked with various regional and national committees covering a wide spectrum of power supply planning studies and assessments. KimberlyDenbow - AmericanGasAssociation Kimberly Denbow is the Managing Director of Security & Operations at the American Gas Association (AGA) and has been with AGA for over 25 years. Ms. Denbow has served as staff executive for multiple AGA Operations Section technical committees, including the AGA Natural Gas Security Committee. Ms. Denbow developed the AGA security program and helped stand up the Downstream Natural Gas InformationSharing & Analysis Center. She supports AGA’s resilience and reliability initiatives and AGA’s all-hazards emergency preparedness activities.
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Charles Phillips – TSA Chuck Phillips has over forty years of experience serving at both the Federal and State government level. He has worked for the last 20 years in Homeland Security, starting with the New York response to the attack on the World Trade Center in September, 2001. He has specialized more recently on critical infrastructure across the Prevent-Protect-Respond-Recover domains, with a specific emphasis on the electric and pipeline sectors. He was directly responsible for executive reports on those critical infrastructure sectors in New York including detailed assessments on threat, vulnerability and consequence for those sectors. In 2017, he returned to federal service as the Pipeline Industry Engagement Manager at TSA. In that capacity, he oversees federal engagementwith the pipeline industry on all security matters including assessments, analysis, information sharing and technology. He also works with the government of Canada regarding information-sharing and in facilitating an annual conferenceof pipeline security managers.
Brian Fitzpatrick – PJM Brian Fitzpatrick is a senior lead fuel supply analyst in the Generation Department of PJM Interconnection
Brian joined PJM in 2015 as a senior lead fuel supply analyst with the responsibility to provide natural gas industry expertise to the nation’s largest regional transmission organization, and assist with the growing need for coordination and communication between the natural gas and electric industries Prior to joining PJM, Mr. Fitzpatrick was employed in the regulated electric and natural gas utility industry for over 20 years with UGI Utilities and Peoples Gas in Pennsylvania. In these roles he gained with a wide range of experience in power plant engineering, electric and gas regulatory proceedings, rates, marketing and energy supply portfolio management. Mr. Fitzpatrick received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute in Utica, NY. PJM Interconnection, founded in 1927, ensures the reliability of the high-voltage electric power system serving 65 million people in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. PJM coordinates and directs the operation of the region’s transmission grid, which includes over 84,042 miles of transmission lines; administers a competitive wholesale electricitymarket; and plans regional transmission expansion improvements to maintain grid reliability and relieve congestion. PJM’s regional grid and market operations produce annual savings of $2.8 billion to $3.1 billion. For the latest news about PJM, visit PJM Inside Lines at insidelines.pjm.com.
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Gaurav Karandikar Gaurav Karandikar is the Manager, Reliability Assessment, Performance Analysis, and Technical Services with SERC Reliability Corporation. Mr. Karandikar has been with SERC for more than six years. The reliability assessment, performance analysis, and technical services group is responsible for providing value-added services to the SERC entities by engaging in a collaborative environment through various technical committees and their subgroups. Mr. Karandikar has over twenty-two years of industry experience with Siemens PTI, Ameren Services, and Alstom. Mr. Karandikar has a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Power Systems from Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri. Mr. Karandikar has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Malviya National Institute of Technology, India. In addition, Gaurav is a senior member of IEEE and has a Leadership Certificate from Cornell University.
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