E. Kristina Brock
E. Kristina Brock is from Lee, Massachusetts and is currently a graduate
student at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. and B.E.
degrees from Dartmouth College in 2001 and 2002, respectively. At Dartmouth,
she performed undergraduate research on a power system for DARTSAT, a picosatellite
designed by Dartmouth engineering students. During the fall of 2001, she
studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research
interests include power electronics and renewable energy. In 2003, she has
been awarded the Grainger Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Dr. Hsiao-Dong Chiang
Dr. Hsiao-Dong Chiang, received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from
University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and President
of Bigwood Systems, Inc. and Global Optimal Technology, Inc. He has published
more than 190 refereed papers including 100 Journal papers and book chapters.
He was Associate Editor for Express Letters of IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems: Part I; 1993 - 1995. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems; 1990 - 1991.
Dr. Chiang's research efforts are focused on nonlinear theory, nonlinear computation and applications to electric circuits, systems, signals and images. He has been working on theory of stability regions and local bifurcation theory of nonlinear dynamical systems (continuous, discrete, hybrid, hyperbolic and non-hyperbolic) and their practical applications. He was awarded 6 patents and 5 pending patent applications. Dr. Chiang was a recipient of Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1997.
Chris Crowley
Chris Crowleyhas owned a public affairs consulting business for the past
twelve years, serving some of the country's largest industrial companies
in the Northwest and around the United States. His clients include: Atlanta-based
Colonial Pipeline Company (the world's largest-volume oil products pipeline);
Fluor Daniel's Hanford Nuclear Reservation clean up team (assistance in
winning a $5 billion contract); Northwest Airlines; the Seattle Arboretum;
developers of an 18,000-seat outdoor concert amphitheater and many others.
Mr. Crowley has been involved in permitting major utility projects in several states, from Washington to Florida. His ties to elected officials, environmental and consumer organizations and trade unions in the Pacific Northwest are vital assets for Columbia Energy Partners.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Crowley served as press secretary for the environmental agencies of Massachusetts and as chief communications strategist and writer for New York's Assembly Speaker. He worked on campaigns in twelve states for president, governor, congress and local offices.
Mr. Crowley has served on a number of community and civic groups. He chaired and served eight years on the (Washington) Governor's Small Business Improvement Council. He is on the Board of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and serves as Treasurer for Congressman Brian Baird (D-Vancouver, WA). He is a graduate of Cornell University (BA, 1978). He and his wife, Martha, have two young children, Gus and Lurana. They have lived for the past ten years on a 20-acre farm in northern Clark County, Washington where they raise ginko and bamboo and pasture retired horses and other creatures.
Ken Dragoon
Ken Dragoon was a Structuring and Pricing Analyst with PacifiCorp until
October 2002, when he became responsible for renewable resource acquisitions
and green tag trading for the company. The 41 MW Combine Hills I Wind Turbine
Ranch that began operation in December 2003 was his first successful renewable
acquisition. He is currently responsible for administering PacifiCorp's
1,100 MW Request for Proposals for renewable resources.
Ken has been with PacifiCorp for 6 years, and spent 15 years before that at the Bonneville Power Administration. Most of his varied positions involved power system planning, operations, analysis, and modeling. He holds a Master's degree in physics from the University of New Hampshire; B.S. physics, Western Washington University.
Kurt Granat
Kurt Granat is a native of Oregon. He has a MA in Economics from Northwestern
University and BS cum laude in Mathematics & Economics from Willamette University.
Kurt has over 19 years of experience at PacifiCorp including Regulation
& Pricing, Generation Planning, Transmission Planning, and various regional
efforts. Currently Kurt is the Lead/Senior Financial Planning Consultant
in the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) Project.
Sung-Kwan Joo
Sung-Kwan Joo received his B.S. degree from Korea University in 1995. He
received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington
in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was an engineer at DACOM from 1995 to
1997. His research interests are focused on multi-disciplinary research
related to power systems, involving such areas as economics, information
technologies, advanced control, and intelligent systems.
Robert G. Olsen
Robert G. Olsen is Interim Associate Dean of the College of Engineering
and Architecture and the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Washington State University, Pulllman, WA, USA. He received the BS degree
in electrical engineering from Rutgers University in 1968 and the MS and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado,
Boulder in 1970 and 1974 respectively.
Prof. Olsen has been a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Washington State University since 1973. During that time he has been a visiting scientist at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, MA at ABB Corporate Research in Vasteras, Sweden and at EPRI in Palo Alto, CA and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
His research interests include electromagnetic interference from power lines, the electromagnetic environment of power lines, electromagnetic wave propagation, electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic scattering. His work in these areas has resulted in approximately 75 publications in refereed journals. His most recent work has been supported by the Bonneville Power Administration, the Boeing Defense and Space Group, the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and presently serves as chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Corona Effects Fields Working Group, as Technical Editor of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Newsletter, and as Technical Program Chair of the 2005 Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the past United States National Committee representative to CIGRE Study Committee 36 (Electromagnetic Compatibility) and past chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society AC Fields Working Group. He is also past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Science.
Brian Silverstein
Brian Silverstein has been with the Bonneville Power Administration since
1979, where he has focused on transmission reliability, market and policy
issues. Currently he is Acting Vice President for Planning and Chief Engineer.
Brian has a Masters in Electric Power from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union. He is a
Registered Professional Engineer in Oregon.
Kai Strunz
Kai Strunz graduated with the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Saarland
in Saarbrucken, Germany, in 1996, and he was awarded the Dr.-Ing. degree
with summa cum laude from the same university in 2001. From 1995 to 1997,
Dr. Strunz pursued research at Brunel University in London, where he worked
in close cooperation with the National Grid Company in the fields of power
system stabilization, electromechanical transients, and power system modeling.
From 1997 to 2002, he worked at the Division Recherche et Developpement
of Electricite de France EDF in the Paris area. At EDF, his main research
work was concerned with the creation of efficient numerical methods for
real time digital simulation. In April 2002, he joined the University of
Washington at Seattle as assistant professor. He received the National Science
Foundation CAREER award in 2003.
Walt van Schalkwijk
Dr. van Schalkwijk has over 25 years experience in the battery industry
in research, product development, manufacturing, battery electronics, and
applications engineering. His knowledge of electrochemistry has been utilized
in other industries, most notably in clinical chemistry. Some of the highlights
of his career:
He has expertise in mot aspects of battery technology and applications including theoretical principles, manufacturing methods, performance and limitations, charge methods, monitoring and control, battery testing, packaging, application engineering, economics, and in the development of requirements and specifications. This combined expertise has been used to perform technology due diligence on several new battery and fuel cell companies.
Dr van Schalkwijk is a graduate of the Lowell Technological Institute (now called the University of Massachusetts at Lowell) and holds a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry from the University of Ottawa, Canada.
He a member of the Electrochemical Society
Dr. van Schalkwijk is a past winner of the Electrochemical Society's Battery Division Student Research Award.
In 2001 He was appointed as an Affiliate (aka adjunct) Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington.
Dr. van Schalkwijk is co-editor (and multiple chapter author) with Dr. Bruno Scrosati of the University of Rome of "Advances in Lithium Ion Batteries," published in May, 2002 by Plenum/Kluwer.
Carolyn Whitney
Carolyn Whitney is Vice President for Business Line Management and Public
Affairs for the Bonneville Power Administration's Transmission Business
Line. She began her career at BPA in 1975 and her expertise spans management
analysis, political strategy, energy efficiency, communications and public
affairs. Carolyn has a bachelor degree in Business Administration and Marketing
from Portland State University.
Robert Young
Robert Young, founder and Managing Director of Economists.com, is a nationally
recognized expert in all phases of economic and financial analysis for regulated
industries. He was a pioneer in the development and use of linear programming
models for electric utility resource planning and rate design, developing
such a model for Portland General Electric in 1980. Subsequent adoption
of linear planning models by other utilities, commissions and public interest
groups led to wide spread use of linear programming and other forms of optimization
models by utilities to develop integrated resource plans. Mr. Young has
provided expert testimony on cost allocation and rate design before the
Oregon Public Utility Commission, the Washington Utilities and Transportation
Commission (WUTC), the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
Recently, Mr. Young prepared an expert report and reply report in a contract dispute between two aluminum companies before the International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of Arbitration in London, England. He successfully completed several far-reaching engagements for BPA, including a comprehensive assessment of their fiber optic strategy, a review of their financial strategy, and development of an information systems architecture plan for the Transmission Business Line (TBL). Mr. Young advised TBL on development of new transmission billing, metering, scheduling and contracts systems. He has also provided strategy consulting to US Generating Co. and PacifiCorp. Mr. Young has assisted large high-tech manufacturing companies and national retail chains with negotiating open access electric power sales agreements, and advised a large independent power producer on electric power pricing issues for a proposed new aluminum smelter.
Mr. Young has taught a variety of classes on engineering economics, regulatory economics and accounting, rate of return, cost allocation and rate design, and economic and financial analysis at utilities throughout the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Young has broad-based background in regulated industries and brings over 25 years of experience in a wide variety of issues.
Mr. Young has a BS and MS in economics from Southern Illinois University and serves on the Board of Directors of the Western Energy Institute.
