Bill Blevins, Director, Grid Coordination, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Mr. Blevins is a native Texan from Port Lavaca Texas. He is a Graduate of the US Navy Nuclear Power Engineering School. He has 30 years of power systems experience with 24 years in civilian commercial power systems and 6 years Nuclear Power Systems experience. He started his civilian career with Houston Lighting and Power and worked at South Texas Nuclear Power station in Bay City Texas before moving into grid operations. Prior to coming to ERCOT, he held positions at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), as Manager of Interchange and then as Manager Business Practices. Before working at NERC he worked for Duke Energy as Manager Generation Control where he was responsible for control area operations in the Eastern and Western Power Grid. While at ERCOT he served as Manager of Operations Support, Manager Operations Planning and was responsible for grid operations as ERCOT transitioned to the new Nodal Market in 2011.
