Electric Transmission: Enabling a Smart Grid
Mason Willrich, Board Chair, California Independent System Operator; Director, California Clean Energy Fund; Senior Advisor, MIT Energy Innovation Project
As America continues to develop clean, non-carbon-based electricity, our century-old electric grid is emerging as a major bottleneck. Meanwhile, public-policy oversight of electric power is a hodgepodge of 50 different states’ approaches to regulation. Willrich illustrates the problem, with special insight into California’s situation, and lays out a program for developing a 21st-century system.
MLF: Environment & Natural ResourcesLocation: SF Club OfficeTime: 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. programCost: $8 members, $15 non-membersProgram Organizer: Kerry Curtis