Scenario Planning Work Group

Purpose of Scenario Planning Work Group (SPWG)
  • Recommend to the EIPC Stakeholder Steering Committee (SSC) a set of diverse macroeconomic futures for selection, and if so directed by the SSC, make recommendations as to the eight futures to be employed and up to nine sensitivities to be used within each.
  • Fully develop the eight macroeconomic futures and the sensitivities selected by the SSC, so that they meet CRA’s needs.
  • Recommend to the SSC which three scenarios should be assessed in reliability studies.
Work Group Official Sector Representatives
(* indicates SSC Member)

NGOs
Mark Kresowik, Sierra Club
Ellen Vancko, Union of Concerned Scientists
Seth Kaplan, RENEW

End Users
*Sonny Popowsky, PA Office of Consumer Advocate
*Alice Jackson, Occidental
Robert Weishaar, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, LLC

Transmission Owners & Developers
David Boguslawski, Northeast Utilities
Tsion Messick, Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Matt Lacey, GRE

Generation Owners & Developers
*Michael Goggin, AWEA
*Steve Gaw, The Wind Coalition
Mark Volpe, Dynegy

Other Suppliers
Dan Hartman, NW Kansas Regional Energy Collaborative
Marie Pieniazek, ECS
Robert Stein, HQUS Energy Services

Public Power-TDUs
Paul McCurley, NRECA
Gabe Stern, CMEEC
*Tim Noeldner, WPPI Energy

Canada
Mike Zajmolowski, Ontario Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure
Rob Sinclair, Ontario Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure

States (EISPC)
Diane Barney, New York Dept. of Public Service
Greg Carmean, Maryland Public Service Commission
Scott Morris, Alabama Public Service Commission

Ex Officio
*Joe Bryson, U.S. EPA
*David Meyer, U.S. DOE
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