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Upcoming Presentation

May 12, 2026

On May 12 at noon. We will host Dr. Pat DeLaquil, His presentation will be An Electric System Transition Strategy.

Speaker: Dr. Pat DeLaquil

Dr. Pat DeLaquil is an energy system modeler and climate policy expert. He lives in Gresham and is a member of the Metro Climate Action Team (MCAT) which is a community of volunteers working to ensure Oregon is a leader in addressing the climate crisis. Since the year 2000, He has done deep decarbonization studies in China, the US, Eastern Europe, and over a dozen other countries for organizations including the World Bank, the US government, and the private sector.

His groups have identified four core strategies:

1. Achieving 100% clean electricity generation

2. Converting our transportation fleets to electric vehicles

3. Converting our buildings and industry (where feasible) to electricity.

4. Developing carbon-free fuels for long-term storage, reliability and hard to electrify applications.

Presentation: An Electric System Transition Strategy

How will we grow our electric system in the face of growing demand from data centers and electrification of transportation and buildings? 

Affordability is the Hot Topic of the Day, and the existing central-station utility paradigm is at a breaking point because its size is driven by peak loads, which are minimally managed.  Currently overall grid utilization is only about 40%, which means that we only use the system at full capacity during the hottest days in the summer. The key to affordability, as we grow the system, is to promote technology that makes greater use of the existing electric grid infrastructure that we already have in place. The talk will identify an overall strategy and its main components for transitioning our electric system to a distributed network system, and how various legislative elements support its implementation.

One PDH will be granted for virtual attendance at this presentation.

No need to RSVP—just click on link below. Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/launch/edl?muid=e926592e-306b-4ac4-b40e-1e8509be24c1

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