Northwest Energy System Symposium 2018, NWESS 2018 Planning Committee Meeting. These planning meeting for a 2-day IEEE PES conference to be held at the University of Washington are open plannning meetings held the 3rd Thursday of each month leading up to the conference.  The work is to obtain facilities, speakers for the conference, food and beverage and advertise.  Speaker(s): Max Emrick, Location: Seattle, Washington

    PenLight was established in 1925 as an Electrical Cooperative that provides service to the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas and three islands in the NW corner of Pierce County. The 32,500-meter co-op is surround by water and has only a single point of power delivery by Tacoma Power’s Potlatch Transmission system. The rural location and lack of transmission diversity has presented the co-op with many challenges to serve their members and to meet their expectations for reliable service. Improving system reliability and finding a second point of power delivery has been their primary focus over the past ten years. CEO, Jafar Taghavi will discuss how PenLight has overcome these challenges to become one of the top performing rural utilities in the Pacific NW and nationwide as well.   Speaker(s): Jafar Taghavi, CEO, Peninsula Light Co, Location: Seattle, Washington