BIOGRAPHIES
Daryl McGee Daryl McGee is manager of the OATT and Regional Transmission Planning group in Southern Company Transmission. Mr. McGee has been with Southern Company for over 26 years and has worked in a variety of roles in Transmission Planning, Transmission Policy & Services, and Fleet Operations and Trading. In his current role, Mr. McGee is responsible for providing supervision and technical leadership to a team of highly skilled engineers who conduct technical studies as required in Southern Companies’ Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) and are responsible for all interface and regional planning efforts with other utilities across the United States. Mr. McGee serves on a variety of industry committees and is currently the chairman of the SERC Planning Coordination Subcommittee.
Ken Keels Ken Keels serves as director, initiatives for the North American Transmission Forum (NATF). As director, Ken is responsible for strategy, leadership, and direction of the NATF’s Initiatives Program, which encompasses resiliency and new or emerging reliability risk areas. Initiatives projects typically span multiple transmission disciplines and practice areas, involve organizations beyond the NATF, and are not being addressed by other NATF Programs and activities. Prior to joining NATF, Ken was director of compliance for SERC Reliability Corporation (SERC). In that role, Ken established policy, set expectations, and directed operations and performance of SERC’s compliance monitoring and enforcement program and its organization registration and certification program, covering bulk electric systems in central and southeastern United States. Ken worked for 25 years at Duke Energy Corporation in a variety of engineering and program management roles including electric distribution and transmission, resource planning, stakeholder relationship management; rates and regulatory affairs; contract management; energy procurement and bulk power marketing. Ken holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a master’s of business administration degree, both from Duke University. He is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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