Speaker: Janet Besser, VP, National Grid. This is an open lecture in Dr. Raab's Energy Policy for a Sustainable Future class and presents a regulator's and utility's viewpoint, covering topic such as renewables and transmission, long-term contracting for renewables, energy efficiency, and decoupling sales from profits. Presented by the MIT Energy Club. Open to the general public.
About the Speaker: Janet Gail Besser is Vice President, Regulatory Strategy and Policy, for National Grid USA, where she is responsible for development, coordination and articulation of regulatory strategy and policy for company programs and initiatives across National Grid?s distribution, transmission and gas lines of business. Prior to assuming her current role in July 2007, Ms. Besser was Vice President, Transmission Regulation and Commercial Services where she oversaw all regulatory and commercial policy issues for US Transmission at the federal and state levels, representing National Grid positions in federal and state regulatory rulemakings, rate cases, ISO stakeholder processes, and other policy development arenas.