Scott Institute Distinguished Lecture with Gordon van Welie

The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy and outreach, entrepreneurship, and education.  We address the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education.We support transformative work that strives to optimize energy resources and reduce the environmental impacts associated with energy production and use with social equity. We also seek to encourage the development of breakthrough technologies that will accelerate the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon energy future.

CMU Scott Institute for Energy Innovation

Join the Scott Institute for a lecture with Gordon van Welie, President and CEO of ISO New England.

Bosch Conference Room, Scott Hall 5201

New England’s Resource Adequacy Outlook and Revisiting the Assumptions and Expectations Underpinning the Move to Competitive MarketsJoin us on Thursday, October 9, for a Distinguished Lecture at the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, featuring Gordon van Welie, President and CEO of ISO New England.Mr. van Welie will discuss New England’s ongoing energy transition as the region looks ahead to 2050. He will share insights from ISO New England’s economic study, Economic Planning for the Clean Energy Transition, including:<ul><li>Forecasted load growth and trends in resource additions and retirements</li><li>Challenges for achieving resource adequacy through a wholesale market structure</li><li>Reflections on the original assumptions behind the move to competitive markets, including wholesale and retail competition, supply-side and demand-side solutions, transmission planning, energy adequacy, and the electric–gas system interdependencies</li><li>How the region is working to balance reliability, affordability, and decarbonization in the decades ahead +++ Breakfast will be provided.</li></ul>Space is limited. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.