Extreme Weather Webinar

2021 Extreme Weather Webinar Tuesday, May 18, 2021 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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The Extreme Weather Webinar will be beneficial for entities that own or operates the BPS who experiences Objectives: To share lessons learned and best practices for storm preparation and recovery , storms, and/or tornadoes in their territory. The Webinar will be an opportunity to share lessons learned and best practices for storm preparation and Target Audience: Entities that own or operates the BPS who experiences hurricanes, storms, and/or tornadoes in their territory . The agenda allows time for Q&A after each presentation. Therefore, times listed may vary.

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TuesdayMay18,2021

Dave Krueger – SERC Program Manager, Operations

Introduction

8 : 30 a.m.

Keynote

Charles Long – Entergy VP- Transmission Planning and Strategy

8 : 35 a.m.

Ensuring a Robust T&D System s

8 : 55 a.m.

Mark McVey – Dominion Principal Engineer Michael McAmis-TVA Principal Engineer Casey Scoggins -TVA Manager, Substation Physical Engineering

TVA– 2021 Spring Storm Restoration on 500kV Substation t

8 : 55 a.m.

10 : 1 0 a.m.

Break

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TuesdayMay18,2021

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Kelly McFarlane – Bonneville Power Supervisory Electrical Engineer

High Wind Event Loss of Communications due to Multiple Fiber Breaks

10 : 2 0 a.m.

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10 : 5 0 a.m.

Summer 2020 Preparations and Experiences

Dan Jewell – Cleco-Louisiana Generating LLC. Manager of Transmission Operations.

11 :0 5 a.m.

Storm Preparation & Resiliency

Tom Gwaltney – Florida Power & Light Company Senior Director, Emergency Preparedness Tim Ponseti - SERC Vice President Operations

11 : 35 a.m.

Making use of all the tools

11 : 55 a.m.

Wrap-Up

Dave Krueger – SERC Program Manager, Operations

12 :00 p .m.

Adjourn

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Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger has been with SERC for three years and is currently the Program Manager, Operations. Prior to that, Dave spent nearly 14 years at ISO New England. He worked in IT, Real-Time and Day Ahead Markets, and spent his last 10 years working in the EMS Modeling and Real-Time Support group and the final 5 as supervisor of the group. Dave has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters Degree in Power Systems Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Charles W. Long, P.E.

Mr. Long joined Entergy in 1992 as a substation field engineer, supporting grid activities in Entergy Louisiana. During his 29 years at Entergy, Charles has performed various field and engineering roles in Asset Management, Operations, and Planning, most recently leading the Transmission Planning and Strategy group overseeing the long-term capital planning for the transmission systems of the Entergy Operating companies. In addition, Charles leads the planning section of Entergy’s System Incident Command organization. Charles is active in the utility industry participating on various working groups in SERC, MISO, and NERC, is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Louisiana. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from The University of Alabama and a master’s degree in business administration from Millsaps College.

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• B.S., Electrical Engineering Dual Majors Power Systems and Control Theory,1978–1982, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA • Principal Engineer Engineering Operations, Dominion VA Power 30 years CIGRE B3 Substations & A3 High Voltage Equipment • 2003-2007 - Corresponding B3.03 Guidelines To An Optimal Approach AIS • 2007-2014 - WG Member and Contributor 1) B3.15 - Guidelines to Cost Reduction AIS 2) B3.21 - Turnkey Substations 3) B3.23 - Guidelines for Uprating And Upgrading Substations 4) B3.32 - Savings Through Optimized Maintenance In AIS Substations • 2010-2014 - WG Member, Contributor and Meeting Host, A3.26 - Influence of Shunt Capacitor Banks on CB Fault Interruption • Convener Brochure AIS Design for Severe Climate Conditions • Convener Guideline of Safe Work Methods for existing AIS B3.46 IEEE Senior Member 2013 • IEEE Capacitor Subcommittee Chair 2003-2011 1) WG Chair IEEE 1036 - Guide For The Application Of Shunt Caps 2011 2) WG Chair Series Capacitor since 2004 - Current, IEEE 824 and IEEE 1726 Standard for Series Capacitor Banks in Power Systems 3) WG Chair Task Force Geo Magnetic Disturbances (GMD) Mitigation 4) Member and contributor IEEE 18, IEEE 824, IEEE 1531, IEEE C62.11 and IEEE C62.22 IEEE Substations 2008-2013 1) Member and capacitor subcommittee liaison IEEE 1534 Recommended Practice For Specifying Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitors 2) Member IEEE I4 Static VAR Compensator (SVC) 3) Member IEEE Substations WG I4 SVC IEC US Delegate TC 33 Power Capacitor And Their Applications 2009-2014 • Appointed by US National Committee the following as an Expert on IEC TC 33 JWG 17A and on MT 20 June 2013, Series and Shunt Capacitors • IEC 60143-1: Series capacitors for power systems - Part 1: General • IEC 60143-2: Series capacitors for power systems - Part 2: Protective equipment for series capacitor banks • IEC 60143-3: Series capacitors for power systems - Part 3: Internal fuses IEC US Delegate TC 37 Surge Arrester Member MT4 2011 Co-author of McGraw Edison Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers Section 10.5 POWER CAPACITORS Author CIGRE Green Reference Book B3 Substations – Section 3.5 Mark McVey

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C. Michael McAmis

M ichael graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Currently in addition to working as a Principal Engineer in TVA Transmission Operations, Michael is pursing a Master of Business Administration Degree with the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. At TVA Michael currently helps lead a group of engineers that analyze the power system to ensure the reliability of the power grid in the TVA Reliability Coordinator footprint including 11 states and 11 million people. He has been with TVA 8 years from 2013 – Present. In industry, Michael is an advisor and task force member for the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry advisory member for the University of Tennessee’s NSF/ DOE CURENT center, a member of the SERC RCWG, and an IEEE member.

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J. Casey Scoggins, PE, MBA, PE

J. Casey Scoggins is currently Manager, Substation Physical Engineering at TVA. He has been employed at TVA since 2011. Prior to this role Casey serve d as Senior Project Manager for Transmission Projects and Principal Civil Engineer for Substation Physical Engineering Casey has the following qualifications ;

• Civil Engineer – Tennessee Tech University (1999) • MBA – University of Tennessee Chattanooga (2003) • PE License – Tennessee – 2006 • PMP Certification – 2011

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Kelly McFarlane

K elly McFarlane works as a supervisory Electrical Engineer at Bonneville Power Administration, or BPA. Prior to that she worked as an Electrical Engineer in Transmission Operations at BPA’s Dittmer Control Center. In that position she analyzed major system disturbances and tested Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) equipment. At this event she will share BPA’s response to a loss of communications that occurred due to large wildfires resulting in multiple fiber breaks. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Portland, a Master of Science in Electrical Power Engineering from Washington State University, and is presently working on her MBA from Washington State University

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Dan Jewell is Manager of Transmission Operations for Cleco-Louisiana Generating LLC. He has been with the company over 38 years in various roles involving System Operations. He currently is responsible for overseeing real-time operations of the control center in New Roads, LA. He holds a NERC Reliability Operator Certification and represents Cleco-Louisiana Generating LLC on the SERC Board of Directors as a member. Dan is married and has two sons and a daughter-in-la w He and his wife live in New Roads, La. Dan Jewell

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Tom Gwaltney

Tom Gwaltney is the senior director of power delivery emergency preparedness at Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). In this role, Tom oversees all plans and processes related to emergency response, event mitigation and recovery. These plans and processes apply to hurricanes and other severe weather conditions, pandemic and grid capacity shortfall emergency events, cyber and physical threats, in addition to corporate business continuity plans across the NextEra Energy enterprise. Mr. Gwaltney has been with FPL for more than 35 years and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. He represents FPL on several committees of the Southeastern Electric Exchange and Edison Electric Institute. Florida Power & Light Company Florida Power & Light Company is the largest energy company in the U.S. as measured by retail electricity produced and sold. The company serves more than 5.6 million customer accounts supporting more than 11 million residents across Florida with clean, reliable and affordable electricity. FPL operates one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S and in 2020 won the ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Excellence Award, presented by PA Consulting, for the fifth time in the last six years. The company was recognized in 2020 as one of the most trusted U.S. electric utilities by Escalent for the seventh consecutive year. FPL is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), a clean energy company widely recognized for its efforts in sustainability, ethics and diversity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry in Fortune's 2021 list of "World's Most Admired Companies." NextEra Energy is also the parent company of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.

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T im Ponseti

Tim is the Vice President of Operations for SERC Reliability Corporation, which includes several program areas, including Reliability Monitoring, Situational Awareness and Security, IT, Technical Services, Reliability Assessments and Performance Analysis (RAPA), Engineering, Advanced Analytics, and System Operator Training. Tim’s extensive background includes leading control center operations, transmission operations, transmission planning, transmission maintenance, resource planning, load forecasting, distribution engineering, rate design and customer service, regulatory policy and compliance, industrial marketing, plus many years of experience serving on the SERC Board of Directors and NERC committees. Tim graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the National Engineering Honor Society, the National Electrical Engineering Honor Society, the National Leadership Honor Society, and was a NERC Certified System Operator. After graduating from Tulane, Tim joined Entergy, where he worked a variety of jobs over the next 18 years. His last five years were spent in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the overall manager of Entergy’s System Operations Center, with Balancing Area responsibility across four states, and Reliability Coordinator responsibility across seven states. Twelve of these years with Entergy were spent as a member of SPP. In 2003, Tim joined TVA, where he held a variety of executive level positions. From 2013 to 2017 he served as TVA’s Vice President of Transmission Operations & Power Supply (TOPS), where he had responsibility for TVA’s Transmission Operator and Balancing Area function (seven states), Reliability Coordinator function (11 states), plus SCADA, the Network Operations Center, Operator Training, Compliance Execution, Real Time Power Trading, and Power Origination. From 2015-2017 Tim served as the Vice Chair of the SERC Board of Directors; from 2015-2017 he served as a member of the NERC Member Representatives Committee (MRC); and from 2016-2017 he served as Chair of the Eastern Interconnect Planning Collaborative (EIPC). He was also a member of the original multi-sector NERC Functional Model team.

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