Manager, Resilience Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Join us for an insightful session on “Resilience Planning with SEPA,” where attendees will hear best practices and innovative methodologies for grid resilience planning. Discover new approaches to enhance statewide energy and distribution system planning by integrating natural hazard, environmental justice, and energy equity maps with reliability and hosting capacity data. Learn how to identify critical facilities and priority customers through innovative partnerships and business models, and assess the impact of state and federally-led energy equity and environmental justice initiatives on resilience funding prioritization. Finally, uncover opportunities for collaboration among stakeholders to secure state and federal funding, de-risk resilience projects, and improve investment benefit-cost analysis. Gain valuable insights into how resilience and customer-sited and grid-scale DERs can enhance overall grid resilience, ensuring a reliable and sustainable energy future.