NYISO has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors, Chair Joseph Oates announced at the board’s meeting with the Management Committee on April 15.
Heather Rivard will join the board in July following her retirement from Southern California Edison, where she has served as senior vice president of transmission and distribution since September 2021. Prior to that she worked for DTE Energy for 28 years, climbing the ladder there until she was senior vice president of electric distribution.
Steve Doyon, who joined the board effective that day, was most recently the president and CEO of Onward Energy, an independent power producer in Denver that operates and manages over 6 GW of wind, solar and gas generation. He has worked in the energy industry for nearly 40 years at several companies, including DTE, Cogentrix Energy, AES and Terra-Gen Power.
“The board is very excited to have the two of them joining us,” Oates said. “And we look forward to engaging with them on the evolving energy issues we face here in New York.”
Oates and Director Gizman Abbas were reelected to the board, while Director David Hill was elected vice chair. Director Mark Lynch will chair the board’s Audit and Compliance Committee for another year, while Director Michael Crowe was assigned the chair of the Commerce and Compensation Committee. Abbas was made chair of the MC’s Liaison Subcommittee. Sally Talberg will chair the Reliability and Markets Committee.
Oates also briefly acknowledged that FERC had approved the ISO’s proposal for collecting import duties on electricity, if the Trump administration determines the president’s tariffs on Canada apply to it. (See FERC Authorizes NYISO, ISO-NE to Collect Tariffs on Electricity.)
A stakeholder asked the ISO whether there was any financial impact from the tariff levied by Ontario on its electricity exports for the short period it was in place and whether it factored into FERC’s ruling. Oates said he could not say.
“We sort of just found out this morning that FERC approved our tariff filing,” Oates said. “We’ll take that back and at the next appropriate working group or committee of the ISO, we’ll report back.”
