Eric Meier

About Eric Meier

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, Common Information Model (CIM) integration, software development, and leading engineering teams. His team focuses on building steady state, short circuit, geomagnetic disturbance models, and collecting the data needed for grid simulations of the Texas Interconnection. In past roles he also managed the administration of ERCOTs operations modeling platform. His recent work has focused on large load integration both at ERCOT and through industry efforts. He is the chair of NERCs Large Load Working Group where he has contributed to the white papers and reports, the vice-chair of Standards Association Data Center Needs Analysis and Recommendations activity, and participates in large load efforts at ESIG and CIGRE. He also participated in the drafting of the Open Compute Projects Power Distribution Subproject Rev1 report for LVDC data center power distribution system specs. In service to the broader engineering community Eric also serves on advisory boards for the Texas State Electrical Engineering, and Bismarck State College Electrical Transmission Systems Technology programs advising on the curriculums and workforce needs. He is an senior member, CIGRE member, and an active volunteer.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’s interested in energy systems integration to better plan and optimize the nations energy system while integrating vast amounts of renewable energy, developing integrated national transmission systems, advancing grid simulation tools, planning for high impact low frequency events, designing data centers and meeting the demand of new load growth, and how to build high performing teams.If you want to chat, send me a LinkedIn message.

Experience

1. Supervisor - Planning Model Administration

   ERCOT

   Jun 2025 — Present

   Re-orged my Model Administration team of ten into two teams - Operations Model Administration and Planning Model Administration. Continued as the supervisor of Planning Modeling.Manage a team of 5 engineers responsible for the building and delivery of steady state/short-circuit/geomagnetic disturbance models and associated data products, model management system administration, and modeling tool development.Manage the team by holding 1:1 coaching sessions, mentoring staff, setting yearly goals, and department road mapping. Responsible for team budget planning, and coordinating all aspects of hiring and performance management for engineers and interns.Technical expert for ERCOTs network modeling on operational, steady state, short circuit, geomagnetic disturbance models, and NMMS infrastructure.Chair of NERC Large Load Working GroupVice-Chair for the Standards Association Data Centers: Standards Needs Analysis and RecommendationsParticipate in the ESIG LLTF, CIGRE LLTF, and Open Compute Project.NERC LLTF Work:Writer and paper editor for WP2 – lead on the balancing and operations section. Writer for RG – lead for balancing and operations section. Member of ESIG LLTF – lead on the Large Load Behaviors, Capabilities, and Limitations section.

Education

• Woodland Regional High School

  High School Diploma

  2009 — 2013

• The University of Texas at Austin

  McCombs School of Business - Texas Executive Education Certificate, Mangerial Leadership

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• Matlab
• Windows 7
• Sql
• Ni Multisim
• Power Systems
• Teamwork
• Multimeter
• Power Distribution
• Vba
• Electrical Engineering
• Microsoft Office
• Oscilloscope
• Powerworld
• C
• Power Transmission
• Arcmap
• Power Supplies
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Psse
• Outlook
• Windows