Russ Seiler
Grant County PUD

Gordon Ashby
Bonneville Power Administration

DESCRIPTION

Prioritizing operations and maintenance and capital asset investment requires a balanced approach with considerations of safety, environmental impact and mitigation,  reliability, efficiency gains, and regulatory requirements.  Prioritizing within a business unit as well as in a corporate structure can often be challenging.  Developing and implementing tools such as asset strategies, condition assessments, life expectancy, and outage planning help corporate asset management bring a diverse set of decision-makers together at the corporate level. This session will focus on best practices to prioritize and document asset investment choices.

This Panel is within the Technical, Dam Safety, and Engineering Track at the conference. 
 
This is a general interest topic relevant to anyone working in the Northwest.  

Moderator:
Russ Seiler, Senior Manager of Asset Management, Grant County PUD

Panelists:

• Mark Parrish, Chief of the Hydropower Analysis Center, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
• Gordon Ashby, Asset Strategy Manager, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)

Speaker Bios:

• Mark Parrish is the Chief of the Hydropower Analysis Center (HAC). He holds a Master's Degree in Mathematics from Humboldt State University and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from Portland State University. Mark began his career as a mathematician, developing the SCE-TOM model suite, initially used for turbine replacement justifications but later expanded to support other business case investments. He also contributed to the development of twenty-year asset investment plans for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) outside of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Under his leadership, the HAC focuses on bridging the gap between the needs of power marketing agencies, power customers, and USACE engineers.
• Gordon Ashby- As Asset Strategy Manager at the Bonneville Power Administration, Gordon is responsible for the analysis and development of the Federal Columbia River Power System Strategic Asset Management Plan as well the economic analysis of capital investments in the federal hydro system. He received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Oregon and a Master of Science in finance from the University of Portland.