Graham Ault

Executive Director & Co-Founder Graham is a co-founder of Smarter Grid Solutions and has leadership responsibilities spanning new business development, marketing, consulting, customer delivery, operations, and IP. He has a reputation for thought leadership and his contributions to energy system thinking include assignments for Institution of Engineering and Technology, Ofgem, BEIS, Scottish Government and the Energy System Catapult in the UK and the Department of Energy in the US. He is a Fellow of the IET, Senior Member of the IEEE, CEng (2000) and has PhD (2000), BEng (1993) and PGCert (2004) from Strathclyde University where he was also Professor of Power Systems until 2016.

Reforming the US Interconnection Process: FERC Order No. 2023

The new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order No. 2023 ‘Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements’ addresses the growing problem of interconnection queues for generation projects. This has become a major impediment to new energy asset connections in the US. The new approaches that System Operators and Transmission Operators must now adopt should go some way towards addressing the estimated 2 TW backlog and typical several year delays that have been building up in the US.