Senior Consultant
Tara Katamay-Smith

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Tara Katamay-Smith

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Tara Katamay-Smith works primarily with the distributed energy resources (DER) group, analyzing the value of energy storage, electric vehicles, flexible loads, and distributed generation and the role they play in enabling a low-carbon energy system. Based in Calgary, Tara also applies her modelling and analysis expertise to a range of Canadian projects from asset valuation to resource planning.

Previously, Tara worked with municipal governments on strategies to reduce carbon emissions, particularly transportation electrification. Prior to that, she worked with the University of British Columbia (UBC) on the development of an energy management system for electric vehicle (EV) charging in order to lower infrastructure and energy costs. This extended the work of her thesis on the optimal control of EV charging, which she completed as part of the Master’s of Energy Science and Technology program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

Tara spends most of her free time outdoors, whether backcountry skiing in the winter or mountain biking in the summer.

Education: MS, Energy Science and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH); BAS, Integrated Engineering, University of British Columbia

Projects

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Filing Support | National Grid, 2018 – 2022

E3 supported to National Grid, beginning in 2018, with developing and progressing their Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Grid Modernization Plan (GMP) filings in New York, Rhode Island, and most recently in Massachusetts. In addition to developing both a detailed business case and benefit-cost analysis for the meter installations, E3 worked with National Grid’s AMI team to engage internal stakeholders in the development of the filings. and to coordinate filing approaches with Eversource Energy’s Massachusetts team. E3 also worked with National Grid to align the proposed Massachusetts AMI implementation timeline with National Grid’s approved New York AMI implementation plan to maximize the cost savings of codeployment. National Grid’s final AMI proposal was approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities in December 2022.


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