EUCI

PROGRAM AGENDA:

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. :: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. :: Welcome Address and Opening Remarks from the Chair

Ahmad Faruqui, Principal, The Brattle Group

9:00 - 9:35 a.m. :: Demand Response Industry Overview

Ahmad Faruqui, Principal, The Brattle Group

Ahmad Faruqui will set the stage for the conference with how demand response and energy efficiency programs can provide a customer face to emerging utility smart grid strategies.

9:35 - 10:10 a.m. :: Demand Response and Energy Efficiency - Regulatory Considerations

Alan Freifeld, Commissioner, Maryland Public Utilities Commission

• The value to consumers
  
• The cost to consumers
  
• Addressing legitimate regulatory concerns
  
• Success stories

10:10 - 10:45 a.m. :: The California ISO Demand Response Lab

Walter Johnson, Principal, Technology Strategies, California ISO

Ali Vojdani, President, UISOL

• CAISO role and interest in DR
  
• The motivation for building a DR Lab
  
• Evolution of the CAISO DR Lab
  
• DRBizNet-AutoDR integration
  
• Lessons learned from Phase I implementation
  
• Future plans

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. :: Morning Break

11:00 - 11:35 a.m. :: Residential Real-Time Pricing in Illinois: Real World Results from Dynamic Pricing and Demand Response

Anthony Star, Director of Policy and Evaluation, CNT Energy

• Illinois has had residential real-time pricing since 2003, first as a pilot, now as programs going to scale
  
• Evaluations are studying the extent of demand response, reduction in market prices, and bill savings
  
• Real-time pricing can be a platform to showcase new home energy management options
  
• The Illinois experience shows how the path towards smart meters and a smart grid needs smart rates too

11:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. :: Analysis of California’s Energy Future

Rachelle Chong, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission

Commissioner Rachelle Chong will discuss the evolution of California's energy policies, climate change initiatives and energy efficiency decisions.

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. :: Group Luncheon

Afternoon Session Moderator: Charles Parsons, Director Demand Response Solutions, Cooper Power Systems

1:00 - 1:35 p.m. :: Price Responsive Demand: A Regulator's Perspective on a Third Generation of Demand Response

Paul A. Centolella, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio

A number of states and utilities are developing of a third generation of demand response based on dynamic and time-differentiated retail prices and utility investments in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), often as part of Smart Grid initiatives. The combination of innovative retail rate designs, AMI and a Smart Grid could produce large amounts of Price Responsive Demand, demand that predictably responds to changes in wholesale prices. Commissioner Centolella will discuss:

• Dynamic and time differentiated retail pricing;
  
• Smart Grid, AMI, and Enabling Technology;
  
• The integration of Price Responsive Demand into wholesale power markets; and
  
• Its role in the development of efficient markets and meeting the major challenges facing the power industry.

1:35 - 2:10 p.m. :: Hearing Whoville: More Results from a Small Commercial Customer Pilot

Steven Moss, Executive Director, San Francisco Community Power

• San Francisco Power has been implementing a pilot program to examine small business participation in demand response programs
  
• In the summer of 2008, roughly 200 commercial-class customers reduced their electricity demand by 4.5 megawatts
  
• Demand response participants were paid $86,000 for their efforts - a welcome remuneration during hard times
  
• Issues related to small customer demand response participation include use of the appropriate baseline to calculate reductions and application of enabling devices

2:10 - 2:45 p.m. :: Con Edison's Emergency Demand Response Programs

Liz Fennell, Manager - Demand Response and Targeted DSM Programs, Consolidated Edison Company of New York

• Overview of Con Edison's DR programs
  
• The road to reliable and verifiable data
  
• You want DR for what?
  
• Steps into the future

2:45 - 3:00 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:00 - 3:35 p.m. :: Smart Grid as an Enabler and Integrator

Perry Sioshansi, President, Menlo Energy Economics

• The smart grid concept started as a means of making the transmission grid smarter and more reliable - but evolved into a realization that smartness should include the ability to integrate a variety of loads and resources. More recently, the definition has expanded to make the grid an enabler.
  
• Distributed loads and resources feeding the grid or taking load off the grid will become commonplace, something the smart grid should be able to accommodate.
  
• PHEVs, a promising new application, provides an example of how the smart grid of the future should operate.
  
• All the talk about smart grid and smart meters should support smart pricing, which in turn will lead to smart electricity consumption - the ultimate goal of a smart grid.

3:35 - 4:10 p.m. :: Retail Demand Response Contracts: How Do They Fit Into the Wholesale Market?

Mark Martinez, Manager, Demand Response Program Development, Southern California Edison

• Retail vs. wholesale compensation settlements
  
• Coordination of market participants
  
• Dispatch priorities and customer roles

4:10 - 4:45 p.m. :: Low-Hanging Fruit, High-Hanging Fruit, and Harvesting Regrown Low-Hanging Fruit

Bruce Folsom, Senior Manager, Demand Side Management, Avista Utilities

• Implementing the most cost-effective energy efficiency delivery mechanisms
  
• Offering broad and deep energy efficiency programs and measures
  
• Available to all customer classes
  
• The importance of effective messaging to customers
  
• Avista pioneered the country's first 'public purposes surcharge' to fund energy efficiency
  
• Avista's portfolio of programs has continued to evolve with its www.everylittlebit.com outreach campaign while continuing to exceed annual targets for kilowatt-hour and therm savings

4:45 - 5:20 p.m. :: Demand Response through Smart Grid?

Letha McLaren, Global Product Manager, Landis+Gyr

• Traditional Load Management
  
• Smart Grid enabled Load Management
  
• A Landis+Gyr Customer's Point of View

4:45 - 5:20 p.m. :: End of Day One

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. :: Networking Reception Sponsored by: UISOL

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. :: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. :: Welcome Address and Opening Remarks from the Chair

Roger Levy, Consultant to the Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

8:45 - 9:20 a.m. :: Analysis of Texas Demand Response & Energy Efficiency Markets

Donna Nelson, Commissioner, Texas Public Utilities Commission

Commissioner Donna Nelson will discuss a range of topics covering the electricity efforts of the Texas Public Utilities Commission. Discussion will include the changing electric wholesale and retail markets, the unprecedented growth of wind energy as a load resource, and financial situations affecting generation.

9:20 - 9:55 a.m. :: Google.org Provides New Energy Conservation Application Through Their iGoogle website

Michael Terrell, Program Manager, Google.org

Join Google.org as they discuss their new energy-analysis application that will help transform residential acceptance with demand response.

9:55 - 12:00 p.m. :: The Future of Demand Response: Here Today

Objective: Paint a new picture of what future implementations of demand response could look like by highlighting the impacts on cost and effectiveness that the integration of the following creates for demand response:

Presentation: I

Roger Levy, Consultant to the Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Employing standard data models to support the broadcast of price and reliability signals via the Internet and other communication options directly to building energy management systems and consumer appliances.
  
• Employing reference designs to guide industry development of embedded controls in appliances and other programmable communicating devices that allow customers to easily implement efficiency and demand management options for reducing and managing their energy bills

Presentation: II

Mary Ann Piette, Director, Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Describe the experience, applications, and results with AutoDR applications in California (Seattle) and the concepts and work effort behind the Open AutoDR national standards effort.

Morning Refreshments

Presentation: III

Karen Herter, Consultant, Hershong Mahone

• Address the application (integration) of dynamic rates, new PCT's, RDS, and customer choice (pre-cooling and load shedding) through her summer 2008 SMUD small commercial pilot. Also address the new SMUD projects for 2009, which will specifically address mapping of CPP price signals from AutoDR to RDS transmission to activate new PCT's.

Presentation: IV

Tim Worthington, Manager DSM Technology, New Product Introduction, GE

Bill Paul, Marketing Manager, Innovation, GE

Rick Boland, e-Radio USA, Inc.

• GE and eRadio will provide an overview of the new products being introduced by GE with embedded controls to facilitate energy efficiency and demand response. GE will describe their new product initiative as well as the market and regulatory issues that impact their business assumptions.
  
• eRadio will provide a brief description of RDS and their utility pilots.

(Time permitting, the panel will provide a real-time demonstration of new PCT's using the eRadio communication technology)

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. :: Energy & Renewables Financing in California - AB32, On Bill Financing & the "Berkeley" (AB811) Plan

Hank Ryan, Executive Director, Small Business California

Frank Spasaro, Manager of Energy Efficiency Partnerships, San Diego Gas & Electric / Southern California Gas

• AB32 opportunities & challenges
  
• Educating businesses and addressing concerns
  
• On bill financing - California learns from New England
  
• AB811 - Taxpayer lien-based EE & PV financing

2:00 - 2:35 p.m. :: EE and DR in the Southeast- What is Working?

Ben Taube, Executive Director, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance

Ervan Hancok, Renewable Generation Strategy Manager, Southern Company

• EE in the Southeast - the political climate
  
• Regulatory drivers for EE and DR
  
• Technology innovation
  
• Public private partnerships and collaborations
  
• Examples of successful programs

2:35 - 3:10 p.m. :: Overview of District of Columbia’s Demand Response & Energy Efficiency Initiatives

Dan Cleverdon, Technical Advisor for Commissioner Rick Morgan, District of Columbia Public Service Commission

• From history to present
  
• Partners making headway
  
• The next development for our region

3:10 - 3:25 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:25 - 4:00 p.m. :: Changing the Regulatory Paradigm: Energy Efficiency as a Business

Kevin Bright, Energy Efficiency Product Manager, Duke Energy

• Update of Duke Energy's Save-A-Watt model
  
• Status of regulatory filings
  
• EE & DR program overview
  
• Planning for the future
  
• Questions

4:00 - 4:35 p.m. :: Demand Response in the Midwest

Michael Robinson, Manager, Market Design, Midwest ISO

• Demand Resources can provide energy, ancillary services and capacity
  
• Demand Resources can be treated as supply or demand resources
  
• Efforts to utilize demand resources in the provision of regulation
  
• Efforts to utilize demand resources in the provision of contingency reserves
  
• Efforts to utilize demand resources in the provision of capacity
  
• Efforts to utilize demand resources in the provision of energy
  
• Efforts to incorporate energy efficiency and price response demand

4:40 p.m. :: Closing Remarks from the Chair and Conference Adjourns