WASHINGTON, D.C. – The North American Electric Reliability Corporation convened its fifth Reliability Leadership Summit with more than 100 leaders from industry and government coming together to identify and prioritize evolving and emerging risks as well as develop approaches to managing them as the bulk power system undergoes transformational change. Consumer, technology, market and policy factors are creating a new grid reliability and security paradigm.
The summit opened with remarks from Mark Lauby, senior vice president and chief reliability officer at NERC, and Nelson Peeler, chief transmission officer at Duke Energy and the chair of NERC's Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC). The keynote speaker was Bruce Walker, assistant secretary at the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity.
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