welcome
​Alene Underwood, NWHA President
Chelan County PUD

keynote
Scott Bolton
Senior Vice-president, Transmission and market development, PacifiCorp
about Scott: 
Scott Bolton sees the rapidly evolving energy industry as a catalyst for improving how PacifiCorp’s customers live and work. He has devoted most of the last two decades to working with leaders in government, businesses (large and small) and anyone with a stake in a cleaner, more economically robust future to help tackle broad-based challenges involving energy policy, infrastructure development, rural community revitalization, and clean transportation.
 
Currently, he leads PacifiCorp’s Transmission and Market Development initiatives, where he brings together a diverse team providing transmission planning, interconnection and project management, while also advocating for regional innovations in the wholesale market that will increase the efficiency of the grid and support needed infrastructure investment.  Recent initiatives include leading PacifiCorp’s efforts to build new day-ahead market offerings in the West, supporting high-voltage transmission development such as PacifiCorp’s Energy Gateway South, and unlocking barriers to other critical transmission system projects.  Scott focuses on helping customers, not only as consumers of electricity, but as people with families and jobs who want to thrive in their communities.
 
Before becoming part of the energy business, Scott worked in politics, opening Oregon's first congressional office ever east of the cascades in Bend in 1996 for newly-elected US Senator Ron Wyden.  He worked with local officials to ensure regional priorities around federal appropriations, public lands, infrastructure and economic development were represented. 

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