Digaunto Chatterjee

Digaunto Chatterjee is Vice President, System Planning at Eversource. In this role, he is responsible for Transmission and Distribution Reliability and Resiliency Planning, Vegetation Management Planning as well as T&D Standards across Eversource's tri-state footprint. Mr. Chatterjee guides the advanced forecasting, modeling and the technical studies that serve as the foundation to the development of the 10- and 20-Year T&D Reliability and Resilience Capital Plan. These strategic technical studies incorporate scenario based probabilistic forecasts that include impacts of Transmission and Distribution connected Renewable generation, state or federal Electrification goals and mandates as well as more recently impacts of Climate Change. In his Gray Sky role, Mr. Chatterjee serves as the Director of Forecasting Branch charged with enabling efficient Storm Restoration through deployment of dashboards and analytical tools to provide real time visibility of Damage, Crew and Restoration assessment.

Mr. Chatterjee began his professional career over twenty years ago at GE Energy Consulting performing Engineering studies for utilities both within and outside US. Mr. Chatterjee subsequently worked for MISO where he led Reliability and Economic Transmission Planning as well as Resource Adequacy. At MISO, Mr. Chatterjee successfully led implementation of FERC Orders 890, 1000 as well as Technical studies in support of Zonal Capacity Market construct. Mr. Chatterjee led the reliability justification of MISO's Multi Value Projects planned and constructed to enable about 21 GW of onshore wind across Midwest.