FERC Order No. 2222 will help usher in the electric grid of the future and promote competition in electric markets by removing the barriers preventing distributed energy resources (DERs) from competing on a level playing field in the organized capacity, energy and ancillary services markets run by regional grid operators. This rule enables DERs to participate alongside traditional resources in the regional organized wholesale markets through aggregations, opening U.S. organized wholesale markets to new sources of energy and grid services. It will help provide a variety of benefits including: lower costs for consumers through enhanced competition, more grid flexibility and resilience, and more innovation within the electric power industry. The rule allows several sources of distributed electricity to aggregate in order to satisfy minimum size and performance requirements that each may not be able to meet individually. FERC staff will provide an overview of the rule’s requirements and the compliance efforts to date. Co-sponsored by: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Speaker(s): Joe Baumann, Chris Young Agenda: 12:00 PM - 12:05 PM - IEEE PES Baltimore chapter introduction of the Speaker 12:05 PM - 12:40 PM - Presentation by Speaker 12:40 PM to 12:55 PM - Questions and Answers (Q&A) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332440

Over the past two years, the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee reached out to over 10,000 engineering professionals and heard from over 200 panelists from all over the world to gain an understanding of the workforce challenges the community is facing. Leading technological organizations risk not meeting their future needs unless leaders of today understand where action is needed. The Report can be found at: https://www.computer.org/press-room/2022-news/ieee-industry-engagement-committee-future-of-workforce-report Dejan Milojicic, Distinguished Technologist and Director System Architecture and Management Lab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will serve as the moderator. A panel of subject matter experts including Mercy Chelangat, Roxana Saint-Nom, Phillip Laplante, and Nita Patel . Co-sponsored by: CS and IEEE Future Directions Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332829

FREE Webinar From OpenReliability.org: "Open Reliability is dedicated to the development and use of reliability engineering and operations research applications under the open source paradigm. Too often it is observed that engineers will choose to base decisions on what is believed to be the correct result from a shrink-wrapped program without actually understanding what has really taken place 'under the hood'. Indeed, some argue that their analysis may be superior, simply based on the popularity, or even expense, of the software used to generate a result. The goal here is to openly present the inner workings of various analytical techniques in a way that encourages deeper understanding of the basis for analysis. Turning these techniques into useful software may be a beneficial result, but not an end in itself." The IEEE Boston Reliability Group presentation is expected to include a fast paced perusal of published tutorial type documents and pages. These cover topics from installation of R and acquisition of the relevant R packages to some interesting uses. We can pause for discussion throughout. However, it is expected that those interested in the topics can circle back to absorb the material on their own time. I remain available to handle individual guidance djsilk@openreliability.org Speaker(s): David Silkworth, Agenda: 11:00 AM Technical Presentation 11:45 AM Questions and Answers 12:00 PM Adjournment Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332882

Virtual ExCom for December Agenda: NH Section ExCom Meeting Agenda 7PM Wed. Dec 21st Virtual Meeting 1. Attendance Quorum check -- David Casper 2. approval of agenda including consent agenda Consent to approval of outstanding minutes (in the appropriate month's ExCom directory area) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sjLlQgHW90kJVcMzGF3exp7g0upQ-DSv?usp=sharing Consent to approval of outstanding treasurer reports https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AwJV9IfbN1e_q6XJ91gQywHaP416bnXH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114974291909984370342&rtpof=true&sd=true 3. Chairs Comments 4. Action Item Report 5. Chapter/Affiliate Group Activity & coordination Chapter/Affinity Group Activity topics --- 2023 BUDGET Review & Approval SEE Treasurer Reports link for 2023 budget: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NmFazMRfvLOXWz37zX_el7ZwjvBvW-sY?usp=share_link Communications and Signal Processing Chair: Open Computer Society Chair: Wei Lu Vice Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Treasurer: Baris Kazar Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chair: Laura Wierschke Secretary: J Michael OConnor Microwave T&T/Antennas and Propagation Chair: Elizabeth H. Schenk Vice Chair: Ian Armstrong Power and Energy Society Chair: Tom Mongeon Reliability Society Chair: Michael W. Bannan Robotics and Automation Society Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Affiliate Groups Consultants Network Chair: Open Life Members Chair: Alan Schecter Secretary: J Michael OConnor Women In Engineering/Young Professionals Chair: Barbara Bancroft Education Chair/Community Brian Betts Student Activities May Wan Key Action: finalize and approve budget for 2023 6. Standing Committee Activities: 7 Old Business --- Restoring Consultant's Network --- Creating SSIT Chapter 8 New Business `` Identify Chapter Goals for 2023 9 Next Meeting -- Wed. HB 18TH (Virtual) 10. For the good of the order -- What should section do for 2023? 11 Adjourn to forum 12 Forum topics (upcoming events, etc) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/335635