Eric Meier is the Supervisor of Planning Model Administration at ERCOT. He works across the grid operations and transmission planning domains with experience in transmission planning, grid modeling and simulation, large load integration, software development, and leading engineering teams. His team focuses on building grid models for simulations of the Texas Interconnection. In past roles he also managed the administration of ERCOTs operations modeling platform.

He has been involved in the integration of emerging large loads in ERCOT since they first began connecting to the system and has been focused on how to address the challenge of reliably integrating Large Loads on the grid by participating in numerous industry large load efforts across NERC, ESIG, IEEE, and CIGRE. He is the vice-chair of IEEE Standards Association Industry Connection Activity: Standards Needs Analysis and Recommendations. His focus has been on understanding the design and behavior of large loads and the potential reliability impacts they pose to the grid. He has also contributed to the Open Compute Project Power Distribution subproject that is designing the next generation of data center power distribution architectures.

Eric earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and he is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. He serves on advisory boards for the Texas State Electrical Engineering program, and the Bismarck State College Electrical Transmission Systems Technology program. He is also an active IEEE volunteer.