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Multi-level Architectures of Energy Resilience

Lorenzo Kristov will explore how, by mapping our energy systems and their roles in other parts of the social system, we can see potential resilience-building strategies.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Kemeny Hall 008
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Multi-level Architectures of Energy Resilience
Public Talk by Lorenzo Kristov
Tuesday, April 24th @ 4:30pm
Kemeny Hall 008

Resilience has now become a central theme in the public discourse. But what do we mean by resilience, how are energy systems involved, and what does it mean for societies?

Resilience of complex systems – whether technology-based systems like electric power, or human social and urban systems, or natural ecosystems – spans multiple layers and integrates multiple functions. In this talk Kristov will explore how, by mapping our energy systems and their roles in other parts of the social system, we can see potential resilience-building strategies.

Co-hosted by the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, the Revers Center for Energy at Tuck Business School, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, and Thayer School of Engineering

Free and open to the public.

About Lorenzo Kristov:
Lorenzo Kristov, Ph. D. Brief Bio Lorenzo Kristov recently retired as Principal, Market and Infrastructure Policy at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), where he worked for nearly 19 years. For most of the 2000s he was a lead designer of the locational marginal pricing (LMP) market system the CAISO implemented in 2009. He later led initiatives to redesign the transmission planning and new generator interconnection processes to accommodate rapid growth of renewable energy projects triggered by California’s renewable portfolio standards. Since then he has focused on integrating distributed energy resources (DER) into markets, grid operations and planning. He has written articles and given presentations on the electric industry transition, distribution system operator (DSO) models, transmission-distribution interface coordination and electric system decentralization. He participates in national forums on electric system evolution and grid architecture, in California proceedings related to distributed energy resources, and in international discussions on TSO-DSO coordination with high DER. During the industry restructuring of the 1990s he worked at the California Energy Commission in collaboration with the CPUC and stakeholders to develop the rules for retail direct access. In 1993-4 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia working on a commercial and regulatory framework for direct foreign investment in power generation. He has a B.S. in mathematics from Manhattan College, an M.S. in statistics from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Davis.

 

 

For more information, contact:
Kristin Miller

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