Concentric Energy Advisors, Inc. (“Concentric”), a recognized leader in management consulting services to the North American energy and water industries, continues to expand its executive-level expertise with the strategic hire of Mr. Mark G. Karl as an Executive Advisor. 

Mr. Karl brings over four decades of energy industry experience, with an extensive history of operations in the wholesale electric market from design to implementation, including resource adequacy. Before joining Concentric, Mr. Karl spent over 20 years at ISO New England, where he served as the Vice President of Market Development.

National reliability officials recommended a study of whether additional natural gas infrastructure, including new interstate pipelines and storage, is needed to maintain electric grid reliability in severe cold, among the lessons learned from Winter Storm Elliott that occurred in December 2022.

The study of additional infrastructure to support natural gas local distribution companies (LDC) was among the recommendations in the Joint Report on Winter Storm Elliott, which analyzed the severe cold weather event that took 1,700 generation units offline in the Eastern Interconnection. The report was jointly issued by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), an industry-based group responsible for creating and enforcing national reliability standards, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an agency tasked with enabling reliable, safe, and economic energy service for U.S. consumers.