Speaker Biographies
Valerie Carter Ridley – NERC
Ms. Carter-Ridley is currently a Lead Engineer in the NERC Events Analysis Group. Her primary responsibilities support the evaluation of bulk power system events to determine the cause of the events and providing lessons learned to the industry.
Prior to joining NERC, Ms. Carter-Ridley was a Transmission System Operations Shift Manager for PECO Energy, in Philadelphia, PA; a subsidiary of Exelon. As a shift manager, she managed and directed the operation of the PECO transmission system during normal and emergency conditions while maintaining safety and reliability. Her prior responsibilities included project management, nuclear plant system engineer and field engineer. Ms. Carter- Ridley has her master’s degree from Drexel University and her bachelor’s from the University of Delaware; both in Electrical Engineering. Ms. Carter -Ridley is a PJM certified system operator and a NERC certified Reliability Operator.
Freddy Garcia – ERCOT Freddy Garcia is the Manager of Operations Analysis and Improvement at ERCOT. He has been with ERCOT for 20 years in various roles including supporting, tunning and enhancing Grid Applications, as well as evaluating, monitoring and improving the convergence between ERCOT Real-Time and Forward Markets.
Freddy currently leads the transmission Grid Analysis team and the ERCOT Event Analysis team. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
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