Henry Chao Vice President, RTO/ISO Markets

Henry Chao, PhD, Vice President, RTO/ISO Markets, has over 30 years of leadership and technical management experience in delivering technology solutions and professional services to the electric utility industry with a focus on public policy development, renewable interconnection, grid reliability and resiliency, system planning, operations, engineering, project development, power market efficiency, and regulations. While as VP of System and Resource Planning at NYISO, he led and initiated several critical policy-driven studies for New York in recent years, including a STARS study to explore and promote an incremental value of replacing aging infrastructure in New York in 2009 that led to the public policy transmission development by the PSC and the NYISO; the Growing Wind study in 2010 to message the need for transmission expansion and market structure change to facilitate continuing renewable penetration; the New York State Scenario Resource Planning study in 2015 to assess what mix of resources (generation, transmission, EE, DR, and DER) needed to be deployed by 2030 to meet  public policies and regulations cost-effectively while maintaining reliability; and Clean Power Plan Assessment in 2016 to provide the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, policymakers, and NYISO market participants important information about the ability of New York to achieve compliance with federal environmental regulations. Dr. Chao has a strong academic background, including a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Executive MBA training in programs at Duke and Harvard.