Nivad Navid is consulting engineer in Market Development and Analysis department at MISO. Nivad held various positions in MISO working on reliability, market and seams projects. Before joining MISO, he held positions in Siemens, CAE Electronics and Power engineering consultants. He has broad experience ranging a wide variety from the utility operation to the system planning, operation, reliability, security and design. His current interests are: electricity markets, renewable generation, storage resources and SMART grid. He received his PhD from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE.