The electric system Planning Authorities that formed the Eastern
Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) today announced the
election of Tim Ponseti, Vice President, Transmission Operations & Power
Supply for the Tennessee Valley Authority, to be the Chairman of the
EIPC Executive Committee for 2016. Michael J. Kormos, Executive Vice
President and Chief Operations Officer for PJM Interconnection, was
elected to serve as Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee.
The EIPC is an organization formed by Eastern Interconnection Planning
Authorities to perform interconnection-wide transmission analysis. The
EIPC has successfully completed a U.S. Department of Energy-funded
analysis of the electric transmission system in eastern North America
looking 20 years into the future, as well as an analysis of the
interface between the electric transmission system and the natural gas
delivery system. The EIPC also develops transmission system models of
combined regional transmission plans and performs scenario analysis on
those combined models to identify stress points on the system and
identify gaps in the combined plans. The Executive Committee provides
strategic leadership to EIPC’s continuing studies.
“I look forward to the opportunity to continue EIPC’s progress and
success during the upcoming year,” said Ponseti. “The past few years
have been exceptionally productive for the EIPC. The entire membership
and former President and CEO of the New York Independent System Operator
Steve Whitley, who recently retired as chair of the executive committee,
are to be commended for their accomplishments.”
Ponseti is currently the Vice President of Transmission Operations &
Power Supply (TOPS) for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Ponseti began
his career in 1985 with Louisiana Power & Light Co, a subsidiary of
Entergy. Over the next 18 years, Ponseti held a variety of positions in
Entergy’s operations, planning, major accounts, and customer service
departments. From 1997–2003 he served as the Site Manager for Entergy’s
System Operations Center. He joined TVA in 2003 as the General Manager
of Transmission Policy, and later held a variety of senior positions in
transmission operations and system planning before becoming the VP of
TOPS in 2013. Over the past 12 years, Ponseti has served on numerous
SERC Reliability Corporation and North American Electric Reliability
Corporation committees, including Chair of the SERC Engineering
Committee from 2006-2008 and as a member of the original NERC Functional
Model team. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the SERC Reliability
Corporation Board of Directors.
Kormos is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for
PJM. Previously, Kormos was the Executive Vice President – Operations,
responsible for all services that touch reliability. Kormos also has
served in various senior management and engineering positions. He is on
the Board of Directors for the Eastern Interconnection Data Sharing
Network. He was a member of the Operating Committee for the North
American Electric Reliability Corporation, the Board of Directors for
the ReliabilityFirst Corporation and the Industry Leaders Council for
the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions.
About the EIPC
Formed under an agreement by 19 planning authorities from the Eastern
United States and Canada, the EIPC has developed a “bottom-up” approach
to transmission planning, starting with a roll-up of the existing grid
expansion plans of electric system planning authorities in the Eastern
Interconnection. The EIPC membership includes Alcoa Power Generating,
Inc.; Duke Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Florida, and Duke Energy
Progress; Louisville Gas & Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities
Company; Florida Power & Light Company; Georgia Transmission Corporation
(An Electric Membership Corporation); ISO New England, Inc.; JEA;
Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.; Municipal
Electric Authority of Georgia; New York Independent System Operator,
Inc.; PJM Interconnection; PowerSouth Energy Cooperative; South Carolina
Electric & Gas Company; South Carolina Public Service Authority;
Southern Company Services Inc., as agent for Alabama Power Company,
Georgia Power Company, Gulf Power Company, and Mississippi Power
Company; Southwest Power Pool, Inc.; and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
For more information, visit eipconline.com.
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