The Third Installment in the DWGP “Building on the Past, Preparing for the Future” 50th Anniversary Webinar Series
On October 6, DWGP presented the third Installment in the DWGP “Building on the Past, Preparing for the Future” 50th Anniversary Webinar Series.
In this webinar, DWGP’s Regulatory Policy Director Barry Lawson, and NERC’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Sônia Mendonca, discussed a range of reliability and security policy issues, including: Where are NERC compliance obligations going next; how are NERC and the Regional Entities addressing the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity, the changing resource mix and increasingly severe weather events; whether NERC’s expectations of industry from a standards and compliance and enforcement standpoint evolved as a result; and are NERC’s short and long-term priorities solely based on these issues, or are there others that industry should be aware of. Ms. Mendonca was featured in the ERO Executive Spotlight in the August 2021 NERC News.
We hope attendees enjoyed this informative discussion. If you missed the webinar or would like to view it again, please click here for our webinar recording.
Please submit any questions regarding this webinar to Lisa Gast,
About our Presenters:
Barry Lawson, Regulatory Policy Director, Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C. (DWGP). For over three decades, Barry Lawson has worked on electric industry policy, regulatory and technical issues including those related to cybersecurity, physical security, reliability, transmission, and disaster response and recovery. He joined the Firm in May 2021 as a Regulatory Policy Director with a continuing focus for clients on electric industry cybersecurity, grid security, Bulk Electric System (BES) reliability and other interrelated issues. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Lawson completed a 20-year career with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) as their Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs. Earlier in his career, he performed transmission policy analysis for the Edison Electric Institute, KEMA Consulting and Columbia Gas Transmission. Mr. Lawson's electric industry career began with Dominion Energy (Virginia Power) in the distribution engineering and customer service areas.
Sônia C. Mendonça, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Sônia Mendonça has been with NERC for the last ten years and is currently senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. In this role, she serves as chief legal advisor to the president and chief executive officer, the NERC Board of Trustees, and staff on all legal and regulatory matters affecting NERC. Her prior roles at NERC included vice president, deputy general counsel, and director of Enforcement. Before joining NERC, Ms. Mendonça was in private practice, where she represented energy companies in a broad range of matters, including electric transmission rate cases, mergers, corporate reorganizations, and the design of compliance plans and procedures.
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