Podcasts Technology Energy Unplugged EP.93 Guillermo Bautista Alderete, Director, Market Analysis and Forecasting at California ISO

EP.93 Guillermo Bautista Alderete, Director, Market Analysis and Forecasting at California ISO

Published: April 14, 2022, 3:47 p.m.

This week on Energy Unplugged, our Managing Director in Australia and California, Hugo Batten speaks to Guillermo Bautista Alderete, Director of Market Analysis and Forecasting at California\u2019s system operator (CAISO). Hugo and Guillermo are also joined by Rowan von Spreckelsen, Aurora\u2019s Head of Research in Australia and California. \n\nGuillermo has had a distinguished 15 years career at CAISO, having come out of academia at the University of Waterloo in Canada where he received a Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. \n\nMain topics include:\n\n\u2022\tThe role of the system operator over the next 5 to 10 years in the policy and market design space\n\u2022\tThe mechanisms that CAISO has introduced to help with the integration of renewables\n\u2022\tThe impact of new technologies such as offshore wind and hydrogen on the California market \n\u2022\tBatteries economics and saturation of ancillary markets