Wildfire Risk Mitigation Technical Conference

Docket No. AD25-16-000 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) Staff convenes a Technical Conference to discuss cost-effective best practices to reduce the risk of wildfire ignition from the Bulk-Power System in response to Executive Order 14,308. _____________________________________________________________ PANEL 1: Grid-Focused Best Practices for Wildfires - Catherine Jereza, Senior Advisor, Undersecretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy - Kristen Sleeper, Deputy Undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Bradley Shoemaker, Fuels & Post-Fire Specialist, Office of Wildland Fire, U.S. Department of the Interior - Branden Sudduth, Vice President, Reliability Planning & Performance Analysis, Western Electricity Coordinating Council - Letha Tawney, Chair, Oregon Public Utility Commission (also representing the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners) - Clif Lange, General Manager, South Texas Electric Cooperative (also representing the National Rural Electric Utilities Cooperative) PANEL 2: Leveraging Technology to Monitor, Evaluate, and Mitigate Wildfire Risks - Mark Quinlan, Sr. Vice President, Wildfire and Emergency Operations, Pacific Gas and Electric Company - Randy Howard, General Manager, Northern California Power Agency and Co-Chair, Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council Wildfire Working Group - Dr. Karim Al-Khafaji, Head of Business Development, Overstory - Dr. Ali Arabnya, Director and Head of Power/Utilities Risk Management Practice, Quanta Technologies - Sucheta Lakhani, Head of Utilities Practice, North America, Pano AI - Brita Formato, President, Heimdall Power _____________________________________________________________ LOCATION Commission Meeting Room (Room 2C) FERC Headquarters, 888 First St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426 POINT OF CONTACT For more information about this conference, please contact Lodie White at [email protected] or (202) 502-8453