Idaho Power - Southern Idaho Demand Growth and Idaho’s Future Energy Resources

Overview
Speaker(s)

Shelby McNeilly-Resource Planning
Topic 1 – Effective Load Carrying Capability of Renewables – How can renewable resources be directly compared to traditional fossil resources?

Trevor Schultz- System Planning
Topic 2 – Summer grid operations during the Pacific Northwest heat wave, and Idaho Power’s all-time peak demand.

Dan Johnston- Distribution System-Operations, Power Quality and Planning
Topic 3 – Distributed Battery Storage – Deferring or avoiding traditional wires solution.

Shelby McNeilly

Idaho Power

Shelby joined Idaho Power in 2020 as a Resource Planning Engineer after graduating from Boise State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in applied mathematics. In her spare time, Shelby enjoys riding dirt bikes and competing with her horses.

Trevor Schultz

Idaho Power

Trevor joined Idaho Power in 2003. He currently works in the System Planning group and is involved in supporting Operations. Trevor grew up in Boise, and other than spending four years in Seattle getting a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seattle Pacific University, he has lived in Idaho his whole life. In his free time, Trevor enjoys spending time with his wife and their three sons.

Dan Johnston

Idaho Power

Dan has worked for Idaho Power Company for 24 years. He has worked on the distribution system in Operations, Power Quality, and Planning. Dan holds a BSEE degree from Brigham Young University and ME and PhD degrees from University of Idaho with emphasis in reliability impacts of a distributed hydrogen system considering equipment probability failures.