Florida Reliability Coordinating Council and the FRCC Transmission Planning

tom blair tom_blair@ieee.org 813-245-5842	Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:30am-1:00pm
	Meeting Description Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 Time: Meeting: 11:30am-1:00pm (includes Lunch) Cost: $10 IEEE Members, $20 Non-Members, $5 Students Speaker: John Odom, VP of Planning and Operations, FRCC Location: Florida Reliability Coordinating Committee (FRCC) 1408 N. Westshore Blvd., Suite 1002, Tampa, FL, 33618 RSVP: Online at: http://time2meet.com/fwcs-pes3/index.html Space limited to the first 45 registrants!!! Questions: Donna Howard at 813-207-7966 or DHoward@FRCC.com The FRCC is a not-for-profit company incorporated in the State of Florida. The purpose of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council is to ensure and enhance the reliability and adequacy of bulk electricity supply in Florida, now and into the future. FRCC serves as a regional entity with delegated authority from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) for the purpose of proposing and enforcing reliability standards within the FRCC Region. The objective of the FRCC Regional Transmission Planning Process ("Planning Process") is to ensure coordination of the transmission planning activities within the FRCC Region in order to provide for the development of a robust transmission network in the FRCC Region. The Planning Process is intended to develop a regional transmission plan to meet the existing and future requirements of all customers/users, providers, owners, and operators of the transmission system in a coordinated, open and transparent transmission planning environment.
	Additional Information SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION John Odom is Vice President of Planning and Operations at the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC). John joined FRCC in May, 2005 after 26 years at Progress Energy Corporation (PEF). He is responsible for oversight of all Member Services Activities, including the Planning Committee, Operating Committee, FRCC Reliability Coordinator function and the FRCC Regional Transmission Planning Process. Additionally, he oversees the Regional Entity functions of reliability assessment, situational awareness, training and certification of system operators, and event analysis. John is one of FRCC’s representatives on the Eastern Interconnection Reliability Assessment Group (ERAG) Management Committee. Until June 2007, John was the FRCC Representative on the NERC Reliability Assessment Subcommittee (RAS), a position that he held for 6 years. John is currently the chair of the Assess Future Transmission Needs Standards Drafting Team (AFTNSDT), which is re-writing the existing TPL-001 through TPL-006. While at Progress Energy, John spent the majority of his time in Transmission Planning, where he was actively involved in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Open Access transmission proceedings and in various North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) activities. John has been a member of IEEE for more than 20 years. He received a BSE from the University of Central Florida and has been a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Florida since 1984
	Meeting Location FRCC - Suite 1002 1408 N. Westshore Blvd., , Tampa
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