In the next installment of USEA’s Energy Management webinar series hosted by USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI), we are pleased to host experts from NREL, CAISO and XM. Joining us will be from NREL will be Omar Guerra, a research engineer in the within the Grid Planning and Analysis Center; from CAISO will be Guillermo Bautista, Director, Market Analysis and Forecasting, and from XM, the planning office will join. Together they will discuss:

• + Role of the aggregator and the distribution system operator (DSO)
  • • Interaction among these players, including, possible conflicts of interest if operating in multiple roles,
  • • Interaction between DSO and bulk markets
• + ISO role in DSO market
• + How to incorporate DERs in ISO planning, modeling, scheduling and operations