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Director, Energy Supply Operations & Reliability – Portland, OR #109146 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

September 28, 2022

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Manages the 24/7 real-time operation function. Oversees employees that determine system energy balancing requirements, schedule power, and dispatch generation resources during all hours to maintain system balance between supply and demand. Ensures compliance with applicable NERC standards. Strives for lowest net power cost solutions for customers. Responsible for selecting, coaching, and developing employees and implementing and supporting company programs and policies.

Responsibilities

•   Strategically position the company’s system to meet company load obligations at the least cost utilizing company resources to achieve the business unit’s financial goals.
•   Manage system resources to meet company obligations while reducing the business unit’s and company’s net power cost.
•   Report strategic and operational objectives and performance to the highest levels of PacifiCorp management.
•   Develop relationships with other utilities to enhance PacifiCorp’s ability to reliably and economically serve the company’s customers.

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The Energy Conundrum: Decarbonizing the Power Supply While Maintaining Reliable and Affordable Electricity

September 21, 2022

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Countries throughout the world have set carbon emission reduction targets in an effort to limit the effects of climate change. Many are striving to achieve net zero in coming decades. Yet, governments also want to maintain, or even improve, living standards for their citizens, which means keeping power affordable and reliable. This poses some potentially conflicting priorities.

“I think one of the most important topics we’re dealing with right now is how fast can we decarbonize the power generation and the electricity generation in the societies around us,” Karim Amin, executive board member with Siemens Energy, said as a guest on The POWER Podcast. “But on the other hand side, we also see the importance of security of supply. I mean, the world needs reliable electricity. It’s very important not only for the economic development, but for the very same life that we have.”

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IEA Calls for More Diverse Solar PV Supply Chains

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) is urging the development of more diverse solar PV supply chains, suggesting the sector’s heavy reliance on China has led to imbalances that pose risks to its future growth.

A dedicated study of the world’s solar PV supply chain issued by the Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization on July 7 acknowledges that government policies in China have contributed to a cost decline for solar PV of more than 80% through economies of scale and continuous innovation. But because global manufacturing capacity for solar panels has increasingly moved out of Europe, Japan, and the U.S. and into China over the past decade, China’s share in all key solar panel manufacturing stages now exceeds 80%. For key elements, including polysilicon and wafers, China’s share “is set to rise to more than 95% in the coming years, based on current manufacturing capacity under construction,” the agency said.

However, this concentration of PV supply chains poses specific vulnerability and risks to the industry that the world is banking on to achieve substantial decarbonization, it said.…

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July 4, 2022

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In May 2020, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) published a model procurement contract for cybersecurity supply chain risk, which is available for download. The foresight shown by EEI in this 2020 artifact is astute and profound on several fronts, as these concepts are now considered mainstream best practices for software supply chains in 2022. The May 2020 release of this contract model..
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May 12, 2022

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The California Energy Commission (CEC) is mulling a preliminary planning goal for 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and potentially expanding it to 10 GW to 15 GW by 2045. If finalized, California’s offshore wind goals would be the most ambitious in the U.S., surpassing even New York’s, which call for 9 GW by 2035.

In a draft report sent to the state’s governor on May 9, the CEC suggested California has an offshore technical potential in federal waters off the California coast of 21.8 GW, based on wind speed, ocean depth, bottom score, and distance to connecting infrastructure. Preliminary planning goals, however, focus mainly on floating offshore wind deployments, given that the deep waters of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf off California’s coast have “steep drop-offs and will require offshore wind turbines installed on floating platforms to be anchored to the seabed.”

The CEC’s draft responds to Assembly Bill 525 (AB 525), a law that took effect this January and requires the CEC to develop a “strategic plan” for offshore wind energy developments off the California coast in federal waters.…

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I've personally witnessed, and participated in, Microsoft's commitment to implement cybersecurity software supply chain improvements to help the US Government implement Executive Order 14028 requirements for SBOM. While many software vendors are talking the talk on Executive Order 14028 the folks at Microsoft are walking the walk and making real progress. I fully expect that Microsoft..
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