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Alison Silverstein
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Alison Silverstein is a recovering regulator, now working as a consultant, lecturer and writer on electric transmission and reliability, infrastructure security, energy efficiency, demand response and technology adoption issues. She serves as a member of the U.S. DOE ’s GridWise Architecture Council.
Silverstein worked as Senior Energy Policy Advisor to Chairman Pat Wood, III , at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, from July 2001 through July 2004. She advised the Chairman on a variety of legal, economic, strategic and administrative issues spanning the agency’s electric, hydro, and pipeline responsibilities. She served as the agency’s lead on infrastructure security, cyber-security and energy reliability and worked on many of the agency’s major cases and rulemakings. Silverstein was a co-chair of the Electric Systems Investigation for the US-Canada Joint Power System Outage Task Force and principal author of the Interim and Final Blackout Reports. Before moving to the FERC , she worked as Advisor to Chairman Wood at the Public Utility Commission of Texas between June, 1995 and June, 2001, covering both electricity and telecommunications matters.
Before becoming a regulator, Ms. Silverstein worked variously for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ICF Inc., the Environmental Law Institute, and the U.S. Department of Interior. She has a BA in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, an MSE in Systems Analysis from Johns Hopkins, and an MBA from Stanford University. She lives with her family near Austin, Texas.
| Tue, May 08 |
| 03:15 PM - 04:45 PM |
How Government is Driving AMI, Distribution Automation & SmartGrids -SUPER SESSION
Room: 17A
Legislators and regulators have decided that utilities need to invest more in automating their distribution systems. What they want is greater reliability, fewer outages, better restoration predictability, demand management through time-of-day billing and a touch of broadband in underserved areas. Congress began by passing the Energy Policy Act in 2005 that encourages investment in advanced energy infrastructure. And, states are following suit with regulations encouraging aggressive investment in improved infrastructure. With regulatory mandates likely to sweep the country, learn from experts what’s behind this drive and how it likely will affect your utility.
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