Professional Experience. Education

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1 , Ph.D. Deputy Director, Power Systems Engineering Research Center University of Wisconsin-Madison 1415 Engineering Dr. Madison, WI ; The Deputy Director supports the mission of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) in Empowering Minds to Engineering the Electric Energy System. PSERC is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center with thirteen university power engineering programs working with almost 40 industry and government members (1) to find innovative solutions to challenges in electric power systems, markets, and transmission and distribution technologies, and (2) to educate the next generation of power engineering professionals. PSERC also receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for research in electric power systems and markets. PSERC has about 15 on-going research projects principally supporting about 50 graduate students working for about 25 university researchers. The PSERC university research community has about 75 members in power engineering, economics, industrial organization, operations research, computer science, etc. Professional Experience Deputy Director, PSERC. June 2010 to date. Executive Director, PSERC. August 2000 to May Senior Associate, MSB Energy Associates, Inc. July 1998 to August MSB was a consulting firm focusing principally on public policy in the electric and gas utility sectors. Assistant Professor, Management Institute, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. August 1992 to June Taught university courses in public utility policy, electric system planning, and managerial economics. Organized, advertised and spoke in professional development programs in cooperation with the Wisconsin Public Utility Institute. Co-Director, Wisconsin Public Utility Institute (WPUI). July 1987 to June WPUI was housed in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin. It provided public and for-fee programs principally on public utility policy issues in electricity, natural gas and telecommunications. Administrator, Wisconsin Public Utility Institute Other university positions: Research and teaching positions at UW-Madison ( ). Research project topics included energy management in the Wisconsin dairy industry, and energy programs supporting low-income households. Research analyst and liaison to DOE on time-of-use residential electricity pricing experiment. Public Service Commission of Wisconsin ( ). Power distribution engineering officer in USAF ( ). Education Ph.D., Transportation and Public Utilities Major; Economics and Quantitative Analysis Minors; University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. Thesis: A Cost Analysis of Wheeling in the Electric Utility Industry. Masters of Business Administration, Finance; University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering; University of New Mexico, 1972.

2 Tech Transfer Activities Including Building a Better Public Understanding of Technology and Public Policy Issues Dennis Ray Page 2 Assisted with organization of national education programs Member of the organizing committee for Workforce Development for the Electric Power Training Sector Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and held for recipients of $100M in ARRA grants for smart grid education and training. June Member of program committee of the National Electricity Forum sponsored by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the U.S. Department of Energy. Washington D.C Organizer of the session Preparing the Next Skilled and Innovative Workforce for the Electric Power Industry National Electricity Delivery Forum sponsored by the U.S. DOE and National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. February Organizer of the session Should Grid Operations be Changed to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Economic Development and Energy Security? 2008 National Electricity Delivery Forum sponsored by the U.S. DOE and National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. February Promoted a better public understanding of technical issues associated with grid reliability. Maintenance of web pages and distributing information via PSERC listserv on Blackout of 2003, Florida Blackout, etc. Provided presentations to the Energy Council composed of state legislators from energy producing states and Canadian provinces. Those and other examples include: Panel member in the session Operational Challenges of the Future: Maintaining Grid Reliability with New Tools and Approaches. What Do Grid Operators Need to Respond to New Technologies Being Deployed?. National Electricity Forum sponsored by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the U.S. Department of Energy. February 16-17, Washington D.C. Challenges in Integrating Renewable Technologies into an Electric Power System. Congressional Information Briefing. April 26, Series of presentations on integration of variable renewable resources sponsored by the Working Group for Investment in Reliable and Economic Electric Systems (WIRES) with support from Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Multi-Jurisdictional Issues Relating to Electric Transmission. University Advisory Board and Center for Legislative Energy and Environmental Research Seminar. The Energy Council. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. June Electric Reliability. Canada Consuls General. March Electric Reliability. Energy Council. September Electric Transmission. Mini-course of the Wisconsin Public Utility Institute given to the Wisconsin State Legislature. March Blackout of 2003: Recommendations for Maintaining Adequate Power System Reliability. Given with Fernando Alvarado, Chris DeMarco and Ian Dobson. Madison Section of the IEEE. March Blackout of 2003: Description, Responses, and Research Directions. Energy Council. Also to the Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions. September North American Electric Power Transmission: A System Under Stress. Energy Council. December 6-8, 2002.

3 Page 3 Communicated results of PSERC research projects and facilitated discussion on research needs and ideas. Editor, 90 PSERC technical reports. Co-organizer of over twenty industryuniversity meetings and 11 summer research planning workshops. Supported tech transfer via tele-seminars and website. Facilitated approximately 110 teleseminars since 2000 attended in recent years by about people (on-line), including archival of publicly available webinars and the delivery of Professional Development Hours to engineers for each tele-seminar. Maintained the PSERC website since Codesigned the current website. Support of Workforce Development and Education Serve as Member, IEEE Education Activities Board (beginning in 2011) Serve on the IEEE-USA s Career and Workforce Committee (2008 to date) Organized efforts to address power engineering workforce challenges. Member, Steering Committee, NSF Workshop and Executive Summit on the Future of the Power Engineering Workforce. Nov , Contributor to workshop report. Helped structure the Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative in response to the 2007 NSF Workshop. Currently member of the Collaborative s Management Steering Committee. The Steering Committee began work in The first meeting of the Executive Advisory Council occurred in November More information at Led development of an action plan for power engineering workforce development by industry, government and education providers. Co-author. Preparing the U.S. Foundation for Future Electric Energy Systems: A Strong Power and Energy Engineering Workforce. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative. April At the request of IEEE-USA President, formed and led a team to develop the IEEE-USA position statement on Electricity Delivery Workforce Training (approved by the Board of Directors on April 23, 2009). Made Congressional and DOE information visits with IEEE-USA to discuss workforce issues, Re-Energyse, and IEEE-USA s position statement (2009 and 2010). With IEEE-USA, organized the Energy Workforce Coalition composed of various associations in the DC area, convened with a luncheon in April Co-authored Engineering the Future: A Collaborative Effort to Strengthen the U.S. Power and Energy Workforce. IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. July/August pp Co-authored Professional Resources to Implement the Smart Grid. Paper for the North American Power Symposium. October Presented to HR representatives from industry Update on the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative. Center for Energy Workforce Development s Regional Summit. June Indianapolis, IN. Participated in various CEWD summits in Wrote a byline on IEEE actions to promote energy workforce development. Prepared at the request of IEEE for the Power and Coal Magazines published by Electric Power. May Organized the session Challenges in Energy Workforce Development for the 2009 National Electricity Delivery Forum. Sponsored by the U.S. DOE and National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners with some 600 attendees, principally from state and federal regulatory agencies, and from utilities. February Described approaches for addressing aging workforce issues and to sustaining university power engineering programs. Ray, Dennis and Bill Snyder. Strategies to Address the Problem of Exiting Expertise in the Electric Power Industry. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January Reprinted in PennWell JOBS Power Career Guide. March 2008.

4 Student Support Activities Dennis Ray Page 4 Working with a team of IEEE PES members to implement a $10M national scholarship program for undergraduates (U.S. citizens and permanent residents) interested in power and energy engineering careers. The program will include a new mentoring service: PES Mentors for Students. Website: Maintaining PES-Careers U.S. & Canada, a free on-line career service serving about 800 students and 200 employers in the U.S. and Canada. Building GOLD member participation in providing services. (Website: Collaborating with PES members in Region 8 to implement PES-Careers Global that will serve students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in Region 8 (North) and employers providing job and student career experience opportunities in Region 8 (North). This service is envisioned to expand worldwide after PES evaluation of this Region s experience. Facilitate a timely flow of information on industry/government issues, job opportunities, new research, etc. to about 400 PSERC students at 13 universities via as well as to some 800 students using PES-Careers. Organized IEEE PES first International Job Fair for Students at its 2009 General Meeting. Repeated the job fair at the 2010 General Meeting because of the success in It will also be offered in Selected Publications, Projects and Experience Workforce Challenges: Strategies and Responses Joined a collaborative effort and contributed to identifying an action plan from the IEEE PES Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative: Engineering the Future: A Collaborative Effort to Strengthen the U.S. Power and Energy Workforce. [multiple authors]. IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. July/August pp Preparing the U.S. Foundation for Future Electric Energy Systems: A Strong Power and Energy Engineering Workforce. [multiple authors]. Report from the IEEE PES Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative. April National Science Foundation Workshop on the Future Power Engineering Workforce. [multiple authors]. Report to the National Science Foundation. July Identified new education approaches. Professional Resources to Implement the Smart Grid. [multiple authors]. North American Power Symposium. October Assessed strategies. Strategies to Address the Problem of Exiting Expertise in the Electric Power Industry. [Ray and Snyder]. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January Reprinted in PennWell JOBS Power Career Guide. March Models of research collaboration Described successful approaches to collaboration in power engineering research and education. Ray, Dennis and Frank Wayno. Collaboration to Facilitate Research and Education in a Transitioning Electric Power Industry. International Energy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, June Presented at the International Conference on Electric Supply Industry in Transition: Issues and Prospects for Asia. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. January 14-16, Electric industry restructuring Identified restructuring challenges in developing countries. Market-Based Power Pools: Will They Achieve Sufficient Investment in Developing Countries? [D. Ray and D. Sharma]. US

5 Page 5 Association of Energy Economists. 22nd USAEE/IAEE North American Conference. October Summarized Australia s restructuring experience. Publication: Electric Power Industry Restructuring in Australia: Lessons from Down-Under. [D. Ray]. Occasional paper number 20, National Regulatory Research Institute, Ohio State University, January Developed public policy options for competition in Wisconsin s electric power industry. Publication: Competitive Policy Options for Wisconsin s Electric Power Industry. [L. Cullen, G. Mathis, D. Ray, and R. Stevenson]. Wisconsin Public Utility Institute. UW-Madison. September Also appears in Reinventing Electric Utility Regulation. G. Enholm and J. R. Malko, eds. Public Utilities Reports, Inc Reviewed unbundling strategies in electric markets. Publication: "Services in an Unbundled and Open Electric Services Marketplace. [S. Oren and D. Ray]. in The Virtual Utility: Accounting, Technology and Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry. Shimon Awerbuch and Alistair Preston, eds. Appears in Chapter 5 titled "Industrial Organization, Technological Change and Strategic Response to Deregulation Discussed challenges in achieving system planning objectives in a market-oriented environment. "Market Forces and Planning by Regulation: Conflicts and Complementarities." [R. Stevenson and D. Ray]. Utilities Policy, Vol. 3, No. 4, October Assessed problems in achieving consensus on electric transmission policy issues. "In Search of Consensus on Electric Transmission Issues. Electric Potential, Vol. 3, No. 6, November-December 1987, Power system economics and modeling Analyzed the information policies in restructured power markets. Publication: Operational Risks, Bidding Strategies and Information Policies in Restructured Power Markets. [D. Ray and E. Cashman]. Journal of Decision Support Systems, Vol Explored the engineering and economic foundations of secure power system operations. "Engineering Foundations for the Determination of Security Costs. [F. Alvarado, D. Ray, R. Stevenson, Y. Hu, and E. Cashman]. Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 6, No. 3, August 1991, The Value of Transmission Security. [F. Alvarado, D. Ray, L. Kirsch, and R. Stevenson]. Electric Power Research Institute Report TR , Project Principal Investigators: F. Alvarado and D. Ray. August Explained principals of planning to reach socially-beneficial objectives. "Least Cost Planning for Electric Utilities." [M. Hanson, S. Kidwell, D. Ray and R. Stevenson]. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 57, No. 1, Winter 1991, Explored geographically-targeted use of demand-side management programs. "Assessing the Effects of Demand-Side Programs on Transmission Planning." [F. Alvarado and D. Ray]. Demand-Side Management Strategies for the 90s, proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Utility DSM Programs, May 2-4, 1989, Electric Power Research Institute publication CU-6367, Vol. 1, April 1989, 25-1 to Demonstrated use of symbolically-assisted computation methods. "Symbolically Assisted Numeric Computation in Education." [F. Alvarado and D. Ray]. The International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, Vol. 4, No. 6, 1988, Developed method for allocating operational transmission costs and use of facilities. A Cost Analysis of Wheeling in the Electric Utility Industry. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1987.

6 Page 6 Reported on status of retail pricing based on time-of-use, including the structure of a residential experiment to determine response to time-of-day pricing incentives. "Time-of- Day Pricing of Electricity Activities in Some Midwestern States." [J. R. Malko, N. L. Hassig, and D. Ray]. Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 12, Spring 1981, with articles devoted to the topic of Energy Crisis: Policy Response, Peter Nemetz, ed., The Institute for Research of Public Policy, Montreal, Canada, Mergers in the electric power industry Analyzed historical merger trends in the electric power industry. Publication: "Electric Utility Mergers and Regulatory Policy. [D. Ray, R. Schiffman, R. Stevenson, and H. Thompson]. Published by the National Regulatory Research Institute, NRRI (Occasional Paper #16), June Assessed financial market evaluation of selected proposed mergers. Publication: "Fifty in Five: Prospects for Merger in the Electric Utility Industry. [D. Ray and H. Thompson]. Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1990, Market research Led a market research project to identify program design and marketing improvements for the Wisconsin ENERGY STAR Program. Conducting interviews of residential homebuilders, homebuyers and construction subcontractors in northeast Wisconsin Led market assessment of energy efficiency and load management programs in the Midwest Low-income policies and programs Analyzed the economic benefits of assisting low-income customers with bill payment and energy conservation. Meeting Low-Income Energy Needs through Public Benefits: Selecting Energy Assistance and Weatherization Funding Levels [J. Huddleston and D. Ray] which appears The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation, Edythe Miller and Warren Samuels (ed.). Michigan State University Press pp Worked with university research team to develop a low-income policy analysis tool for simulating policy strategies and public benefits levels under alternative future scenarios. Low-Income Policy Response Simulation Model: Technical Documentation. [J. Huddleston, D. Ray, and R. Stevenson]. Supported by the Energy Center of Wisconsin. October Participated on a consulting team serving as technical advisors to the Low-Income Governing Board to the California Public Utility Commission In cooperation with a consulting team, produced a report for the Regulator General in Victoria Australia on consumer and low-income issues associated with a Pricing Review Organized and led a symposium on low-income policies in restructured energy markets. Low Income Energy Services Symposium: Summary of Proceedings. [B. Tannenbaum, D. Ray, and R. Stevenson]. Published by the Energy Center of Wisconsin. July Developed a low-income research bibliography for Oak Ridge National Laboratory Proposed a design for a million-dollar, statewide, low-income energy needs assessment and market research study for the Low-Income Governing Board in California Testified before the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on an analysis of the need for energy efficiency programs for low-income households Evaluated the financial implications for a utility rate assistance program to targeted lowincome customer segments in New Mexico. "Measuring the Potential Impacts from Lifeline Pricing and Electricity and Natural Gas Services." [R. Stevenson and D. Ray]. Issues in Public Utility Pricing and Regulation, Michael Crew (ed.), Lexington Books, 1980, Reprinted by the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Reprint No. 413.

7 Page 7 Other work experiences Strategic planning for public power utilities in competitive energy markets Strategic planning for energy service companies in the Ukraine Design of a premium reliability service using standby-generation Power flow analysis of proposed transmission siting project Testimony for the Michigan Public Service Commission on residential concerns associated with recovery of costs due to a nuclear power plant outage