Keynote 3: Wayne Bishop Jr, IEEE PES Vice President
BIO:
Wayne Bishop Jr is Senior Director of Industry Outreach at Quanta Technology, a subsidiary of Quanta Services, a Fortune 500 Company. Wayne also serves as Executive Advisor of LUMA Energy, the electric utility in Puerto Rico.
In addition, Wayne serves as IEEE PES Vice President of Meetings and Conferences, a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Governing Board, and a member of the IEEE PES Executive Committee.
Wayne Bishop Jr
IEEE PES Vice President
As Vice President, he has overall responsibility for all IEEE PES Conferences and Meetings worldwide. He also helped write and implement the Long Range Strategic Plan for IEEE PES, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Previously, Wayne worked at OMICRON electronics for 13 years where he was the Head of Marketing for North America. Prior to that, Wayne was employed at Doble Engineering Company for more than 16 years in several senior management positions. In 2007, he was appointed by Doble’s Board of Directors to serve on the Committee to broker the sale of Doble Engineering to ESCO Technologies.
Wayne Bishop Jr is a graduate of Merrimack College, Harvard University, and Suffolk University in Boston.
Wayne and his family reside in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
Keynote Title: Trends and Transformation of the Electric Power Industry
The electric utility industry is being transformed and reshaped with renewable, clean, and more resilient energy solutions. Robust decarbonization goals are being set along with more pressure to increase reliability and become more resilient. This is coupled with the challenges of an aging infrastructure and changing workforce. Power utilities are at the center of this challenge; tasked with integrating record levels of new, renewable, energy assets while accommodating dramatically increased multidirectional power flows, and hardening the grid to prepare for increasingly severe weather events exacerbated by climate change.
Some would say that the electric power industry will change more in the next 10 years than the last 100 years. This presentation will outline the global changes and trends happening including adoption of electric vehicles, the race toward decarbonization, integration of DER’s (wind, solar, etc.) onto the grid, electrification transportation, implementation of microgrids, etc. Examples of grid modernization projects at LUMA Energy (the electric utility) in Puerto Rico will also be shown.