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2013 Agenda

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

11:30 AM

OPTIONAL: Workshop Registration Opens

1:00-5:00 PM

OPTIONAL: IEEE PES Consumer Engagement Workshop

5:30-7:00 pm

Welcome Reception at the National Press Club

529 14th St NW, 13th Floor

Admission included with National Town Meeting and Consumer Engagement Workshop registrations. Additional tickets may be purchased for $45.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

7:30 am

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast for all attendees

8:30-9:00 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Delegate Voting

Attendees will have an opportunity to let their opinion be known on a number of topics and issues in the area of demand response and smart grid.

Griddie Awards – Finalist #1

9:00-10:30 am

Roundtable #1 – Moving Forward

This Roundtable will try to cover current issues facing DR and SG and talk about some of the challenges, barriers, and opportunities that exist. Future-looking discussion will be encouraged.

Town Meeting Leadership Award Presentation

10:30-11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #2

Roundtable #2 – Demand Response 2.0

This Roundtable will talk about the present state of DR from a variety of standpoints: technology, policy, business models, etc. It will discuss both wholesale and retail DR. It will attempt to identify what is next on the development and implementation path for DR.

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30-3:00 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #3

Roundtable #3 – Smart Grid 2.0

This Roundtable will discuss what should be or should not be under the smart grid “umbrella.” It will talk about recent and future smart grid developments in the areas of policy, technology, business models, and finance. Infrastructure, resiliency, and reliability will all be discussed. Panelists will share their predictions as to what the path forward should be.

3:00-3:30 PM

Break

3:30-5:00 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #4

Roundtable #4 – Utilities 2.0

This Roundtable will discuss what the further growth of smart grid and demand response will mean for utilities. Possible scenarios and business models will be discussed. The impact of grid modernization on utility operations will be a topic.

5:00-5:30 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #5

Griddie Award Review, Voting, and Closing Remarks

5:30-7:30 PM

10th Anniversary Networking Reception

Admission included with National Town Meeting registrations. Additional tickets can be purchased for $65.

7:00-9:30 PM

ADS Members-Only Dinner with Special Guest (TBA)

The ADS Members-Only Dinner will be held following the Reception. It will be in the stately top-floor Rotunda of the Reagan Building, with balcony views up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. Network with fellow ADS Members and hear from a guest speaker. Sign up for ADS today!

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

7:30 Am

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast for all attendees

7:30 Am

ADS Member Meeting

ADS Members are invited to bring their breakfast into the Ballroom and join their fellow members for an annual meeting to discuss membership issues and ideas for the future of the organization. You may join ADS now at www.demandresponsesmartgrid.org. If you wish to join ADS while you are on site for the event, you can do so at the registration desk.

8:30-9:25 Am

BREAKOUT SESSION 1

Demand Response 1-A: Time-Based Pricing – New Info, but is There New Movement?

There is a lot of data out there on various aspects of time-based pricing – more than some may realize. But there is some serious new data rolling out that helps understand this seemingly inevitable electricity option.

Smart Grid 1-B: Smart Cities – Focal Point for Smartness

This session will explore the idea of a city being not only a unit of governance, but also of operations that may allow smart grid technology and practices to be implemented in ways that could address DR and smart grid challenges.

9:30-10:30 AM

BREAKOUT SESSION 2

Demand Response 2-A: Engaging the Customer – As Opposed to Just Talking to Them

The nature of DR and the Smart Grid means that there are a lot of new choices for customers, a lot of new things that customers may need to understand, and a lot of new opportunities for two-way touch points. This session will allow utilities and others to talk about what they have learned and what they think.

Smart Grid 2-B: Grid Integration – Essential Step for Optimization of Resources

Integrating intermittent and variable renewable energy resources is a hot topic and a top challenge for grid operators and utilities. This session will look at how this is playing out, especially via use of demand response.

10:30-11:00 AM

Break

11:00 Am – 12:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 3

Demand Response 3-A: Demand Response and Energy Efficiency – Avoiding Dysfunction in the DSM Family

DR has ramped up to be a more significant player on the demand side, but much of the development – technology, policy, and programs – has happened in a different silo from that of EE. This session will look at where things are coming together and where things are still not aligned.

Smart Grid 3-B: Microgrids – A Look at a Distributed World

Few topics are drawing more interest these days than the use of Microgrids. This session will focus on what exactly a Microgrid is, look at some examples, and discuss what Microgrids may mean to the overall grid.

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:55 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 4

Demand Response 4-A: Case Studies and Lessons Learned – Volume 1

Each year, more is being learned from DR programs, pilots, and operations. There are lessons being learned that may serve as best practices for you as a DR practitioner or policymaker. Hear some of the stories in this session.

Smart Grid 4-B: Distribution Management/Automation – Making Distribution Systems Dynamic

This session will look at what is increasingly being seen as a “sweet spot” for utilities – the deployment of smart grid technologies and practices at the distribution level. It will discuss what the options are and what benefits can be expected.

2:00-2:55 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 5

Demand Response 5-A: Case Studies and Lessons Learned – Volume 2

More stories…more lessons learned…more potential best practices. Hear from utilities that have some experiences you probably want to know of and hear more about.

Smart Grid 5-B: Reliability and Resilience – the Role of Smart Grid Technologies and Practices

Recent storms of varying types across the U.S. has had both policymakers and utilities focused on what needs to be done to harden the grid, make it more flexible and resilient, and improve outage management and restoration. This session will explore how movement to a smarter grid can address those issues.

3:00-3:30 PM

Closing Session

2012 Agenda

tuesday, June 26, 2012

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

1615 H St. NW, Washington, DC

11:30 AM

Registration Opens

1:00-1:30 PM

Welcome and General Session

1:35-2:35 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 1

Session 1-A: Integrating Renewables and Storage: the Role of Other Siblings in the Smart Grid Family

Several Town Meetings ago, renewable and distributed resource leaders were invited to talk to the DR and SG community, and many of us began to realize the inevitable intertwinement of the two areas. Now things are actually happening on this front and this session will give you a glimpse into some of the efforts.

Bill Jackson (moderator)
Interim Senior Manager of Demand Response, Tennessee Valley Authority

Katie Pruder-Scruggs
Smart Grid Outreach Coordinator, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)
“The potential role of demand response in integrating wind”

Priya Sreedharan
Senior Consultant, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3)
“A case study of the benefits of integrating rooftop solar PV using advanced inverters and battery storage”

Paul Steffes
CEO, Steffes Corporation
“Steffes / Dairyland Power Grid-Interactive Energy Storage (GETS) – Case Study and Lessons Learned”

Session 1-B: National Action Plan on Demand Response: Filling in the Gaps

Congress ordered DOE and FERC to develop a National Action Plan, and ADS was key in helping them do that. Work on addressing some of the gaps and needs identified by the DOE-FERC Plan is now underway. Hear from the heads of several different multi-stakeholder working groups that have been engaged in the areas of Cost-Effectiveness, M&V, DR Tools & Methods, and Program Design and Implementation.

David Kathan and Larry Mansueti (moderators)
Senior Economist, FERC and Senior Advisor, DOE

Mimi Goldberg
Senior Vice President of Sustainable Market Strategies, KEMA
Measurement & Verification Working Group

Tim Woolf
Vice President, Synapse Energy Economics
Cost-Effectiveness Working Group

Chuck Goldman
Department Head and Staff Scientist, Energy Analysis Dept., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tools and Methods Working Group

Rick Voytas
Manager Energy Efficiency/Demand Response, Ameren
Program Design and Implementation

2:35-3:00 PM

Break

3:00-3:55 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 2

Session 2-A: The Grid: More Than One Way to Make it Smart

There are many ways to make the grid “smart.” This session will feature new efforts focused on some of the developments that are taking place.

Tim Roughan (moderator)
Director of Distributed Resources, National Grid

Clinton Davis
Director of Product Strategy, Smart Grid, Ventyx
“Integrated Volt/VAR optimization with demand response and distributed energy resources”

Bruce Hamer
Principal Power Engineer, Burbank Water & Power
“Burbank Water & Power’s Integrated Automatic Dispatch System (IADS)”

Mark Podorsky
Manager, SmartConnect Business Design, Southern California Edison
“Best Practices to overcome Interoperability, Standards, and Process challenges in Demand Response”

Session 2-B: SGIG Consumer Engagement Case Studies

The Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) Program at DOE did more than just pay for deployments. A number of the grants also involve very structured research efforts on some of the hottest topics in demand response and smart grid. Hear from three utilities that are in this special group.

Paul Miles (moderator)
Manager of DR & Load Response Programs, PECO

Casey Bisard
Economist, NV Energy

Lupe Strickland
Demand Side Specialist, SMUD

Randy Pratt
Manager of Government Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative

4:00-5:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 3

Session 3-A: Technology Evolves, and with it, Demand Response

There are many different types of DR, and various ways that it can be enabled. This session will focus on some of the newest developments.

Col Smart (moderator)
Section Manager – Commercial Customer Initiatives, Consolidated Edison (ConEd)

Andrew Horstman
Manager of Load Response, Wabash Valley Power
“Wabash Valley Power Association’s AMI network, MDMS solution and DRMS platform”

Matt Wakefield
Senior Program Manager, EPRI
“EPRI’s Automated Demand Response and Ancillary Services Demonstration “

Howard Smith
Manager, Resource Planning, Southern Company
“The Technology Changes – The Program Continues”

Session 3-B: New Research

DR has “arrived.” It is actually happening – in large volumes in many different places! But research on DR and SG is still needed and it will have to be an ongoing component of our community. This session will focus on helping you know some of the things we now know.

Sharon Bauer (moderator)
Director Demand Response Programs, Progress Energy

Nik Schruder
Evaluation Manager, Conservation, Ontario Power Authority
“Identifying Paths to Success: Learnings on Barriers and Drivers to Demand Response Program Participation among C/I and Institutional Customers “

Paul Alvarez
President, Wired Group
“Operational Benefits: What formal deployment evaluations are telling us about the economic, reliability, and customer service value of smart grid capabilities beyond Demand Response”

Patty Durand
Executive Director, Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative
“Consumer Voices 2012: They Like What They’re Hearing”

5:15-7:00 pm

Welcome Reception at the Sofitel

Admission included with National Town Meeting registrations. Additional tickets may be purchased for $45.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

7:30 am

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast for all attendees

8:30-9:00 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Delegate Voting

Attendees will have an opportunity to let their opinion be known on a number of topics and issues in the area of demand response and smart grid.

Griddie Awards – Finalist #1

This spring, ADS put out a “Call for Creative,” looking for the best examples of creative work that explain the importance of smart energy practices and technologies to the public. Utilities, community organizations, technology companies, and other stakeholders sent in their submissions, and now the finalists are up for a vote! Who do you think deserves a National Town Meeting Award for Excellence in Communication – aka a Griddie?

9:00-10:15 am

Roundtable #1 – Big Thoughts on the Big Picture

Also known as our “keynote” roundtable, this session will feature top leaders from utilities, government, and the technology sector. They will talk about their views of where things are and where they are going. You will hear them discuss what the challenges are before each of them, and where “wrong turns” could be taken on the road to the smart grid and expanded DR. They will look into their crystal balls and give you their thoughts on what things may look like in the future.

Dorothy Robyn
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, U.S. Department of Defense

Blake Young
President and CEO, Comverge

Thierry Godart
President, Smart Grid Division – North America, Siemens

Stu Bresler
Vice President of Market Operations & Demand Resource, PJM

Mary Doswell
Senior Vice President – Alternative Energy Solutions, Dominion Resources

Town Meeting Leadership Award Presentation

10:15-10:45 AM

Break

10:45AM-12:00 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #2

Roundtable #2 – Policymakers Talk

When it comes to DR and smart grid, there is no getting around policymaking. This session will feature panelists from Congress, the White House, DOE, State PUCs, and others that have their hands on the policy ball. Look for talk about Cybersecurity, Green Button, Opt-Out, Time-Based Pricing, and other current and future topics.

Nick Sinai
Senior Advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Mary Beth Tighe
Senior Technical and Policy Advisor to the Chairman, FERC

Eric Lightner
Director of the Federal Smart Grid Task Force, U.S. Department of Energy

Ward Lenz
Director, North Carolina State Energy Office

Orjiakor Isiogu
Commissioner, Michigan Public Service Commission

David Wollman
Deputy Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, NIST

Kellie Donnelly
Republican Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Energy Committee

12:00-1:00 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #3

Roundtable #3 – The Observers

This is a new session at Town Meeting. It will feature a collection of parties that in various ways are professional observers of the demand response and smart grid industries. Included will be speakers from Wall Street, the Media, and the Research Community. Anticipate these panelists seeing the forest while you may be only focusing on the trees.

Tom Tiernan
Senior Editor, Platts

David Steele
Senior Director, Smart Energy Practice, JD Power & Associates

Chuck McDermott
General Partner, Rockport Capital

Christopher Joyce
Senior Correspondent, National Public Radio

Katie Tweed
Senior Writer, Greentech Media

1:00-2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00-3:00 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #4

Roundtable #4 – A Day in the Life of One Utility

At last year’s Town Meeting, for the first time we used a Roundtable session to focus on just one state (Texas), and featured different players that sit at the table there. This year we are turning the focus of a session to one utility that has been one of the early adopters of DR and smart grid, and that has been on the forefront of designing and implementing programs for its customers. In this session we will hear from those involved in the company’s critical peak pricing, AC cycling, residential TOU, EV work, and others. They will discuss both their work on these different programs and how they work together to provide the best options for their customers.

Jeremy Donnell
Manager – Demand Response Measurement and Evaluation, Pacific Gas & Electric

Mike Alexander
Manager – DSM Measurement and Evaluation, Pacific Gas & Electric

Karen Zelmar
Director – Pricing Products, Pacific Gas & Electric

Susan Norris
Senior Manager – Pricing Products, Pacific Gas & Electric

3:00-3:30 PM

Break

3:30-4:30 PM

Delegate Voting and Griddie Awards – Finalist #5

Roundtable #5 – Trending (Round One)

With so many issues and topics that relate to DR and smart grid today, there are many hot ones to talk about. Round One will give you important insight into privacy and cyber security, what DR and SG can mean to the affordability community, whether consumer unrest and opt-out are waning or waxing, and what place social networking and pre-pay may have in engaging customers.

Jules Polonetsky
Director and Co-Chair, Future of Privacy Forum

Ted Reguly
Director Customer Programs and Assistance, San Diego Gas & Electric

Alex Kinnier
SVP of Devices and Real-Time Services, Opower

Dave Elve
EVP, PayGo Electric

Rich Peterson
Director of Growth Operations in the New Business Solution Group, Best Buy

Ann Perreault
Global Product Director, Cooper Power Systems

4:30-5:30 PM

Roundtable #6 –Trending (Round Two)

This session will focus on the creation of smart buildings and smart microgrids, how to integrate DR and energy efficiency, how the DR and SG community should think about (and act?) regarding electric vehicles, and how smart devices can help both the utility and the customer.

Steve Nadel
Executive Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

Louis Szablya
Vice President of Marketing and Utility Solutions, Energate

Ron Dizy
President and CEO, ENBALA

Elgie Holstein
Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund

Brian Hanrahan
Director, In-Home Technologies and Electric Vehicles, Florida Power & Light

Clyde Melton
Performance Analysis Engineer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

5:30-5:45 PM

Griddie Award Review, Voting, and Closing Remarks

5:45-7:30 PM

Networking Reception

Admission included with National Town Meeting registrations. Additional tickets can be purchased for $45.

7:30-9:30 PM

ADS Members-Only Dinner with Special Guests (TBA)

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

7:30 Am

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast for all attendees

7:30 Am

ADS Member Meeting

8:30-9:30 Am

Roundtable #7 – The Round-Up

This session will feature a number of brief reports from the RTOs/ISOs and key states as to what is new and what is on the horizon. You will also hear thoughts on what the present and future of wholesale DR means for retail DR and design of programs there.

Henry Yoshimura
Director, Demand Resource Strategy, ISO-New England

Paul Wattles
Senior Analyst, Market Design, ERCOT

Susan Covino
Senior Consultant, Market Strategy Development, PJM

Mike Barber
Demand Response Advisor, MISO

Jim Gallagher
Senior Manager, NYISO

Peter Klauer
Smart Grid Solutions Manager, CAISO

Christine Wright
Senior Policy Analyst, Texas Public Service Commission

Larry Oliva
Director, Tariff Programs & Services, Southern California Edison

9:35-10:30 Am

BREAKOUT SESSION 4

Session 4-A: Case Studies

You keep asking for them, and we keep giving them to you. Three case studies will be presented by utilities.

Bill Harmon (moderator)
Vice President of Residential Segment Marketing, Reliant Energy

Tom Stathos
Director-Customer Programs & Services, PPL Electric Utilities
“If you build it will they come? Building on an AMI platform to connect with customers”

Jay Demarest
Customer Relations and Programs Director, Pepco
“Partnering with an Implementation Vendor to support new DR programs in multiple jurisdictions”

Mike Farrell
Director of Customer Programs, Oklahoma Gas & Electric
“OG&E’s Demand Response Program – Past, Present and Future”

Session 4-B: New Dots Being Connected

There are new dots to think about and connect. This session will look two of the new ones – ancillary services and time-varying emissions – and then feature a utility talking about how it views Microgrids as one way to deal with a lot of the new dots that it will have to – or want to – connect as it evolves as a company.

Erik Ellis (moderator)
Manager, Resource Program Strategic Planning, Arizona Public Service (APS)

Brad Davids
Vice President of Utility Solutions, EnerNOC
“Quick Response Demand-Side Resources to Balance Intermittency”

Nate Gilbraith
Researcher, Clarkson University
“The Impact of Time-Varying Prices on Nitrogen Oxide and Particulate Matter Emissions in New York City”

John Radgowski
Director Product Development and Customer Solutions, Dominion Voltage
“The role of microgrids in the evolution of a utility”

10:30-10:45AM

Break

10:45-11:40 Am

BREAKOUT SESSION 5

Session 5-A: Case Studies: One of Each

There are DR and Smart Grid opportunities for all types of customers. This session will have separate “drill-downs” on commercial, industrial, residential and agricultural customers.

Debbie Rachlis (moderator)
Vice President of Sales, Energate

John Steinberg
EVP of Business Development, EcoFactor
“A new era for residential demand response: increasing yield and maintaining comfort through cloud-based data analysis and real-time response”

Swapnil Shah
CEO, First Fuel
“The Power of Information in Energy Management – putting it to work on the Reagan Building – the Town Meeting Venue itself”

Todd Greenwalt
Vice President of Engineering, Powerit Solutions
“The intersection of smart grid, demand response, and energy efficiency”

Session 5-B: Pricing #1

Many, if not most, in the DR and SG community believe that pricing is the next frontier. Hear from folks that are the working on the front lines.

Rick Voytas (moderator)
Manager, Energy Efficiency/Demand Response, Ameren

Steve George
Chief Executive Officer, Freeman, Sullivan & Co.
“Peak Time Rebates: The Promise vs. The Reality”

Chris King
Chief Strategy Officer, eMeter, a Siemens Business
“Let’s Put 1.2 Million Californians on Peak Time Rebate and See What Happens”

Jessica Spanier
Senior Research Analyst, CNT Energy
“What-if: All Residential Customers were on Real-Time Pricing?”

11:45AM-12:40 PM

BREAKOUT SESSION 6

Session 6-A: Touching the Residential Customer in Different Ways

The emergence of new communications and control technologies means that there are new opportunities to get customers engaged in demand response. This session will explore ways that companies are looking at both side of the meter to do that.

Phil Davis (moderator)
Senior Manager, Demand Response Resource Center, Schneider Electric

Aine Denari
Director of Strategy, Ingersoll-Rand
“Generating consumer pull for residential smart grid solutions”

Mei Shibata
Chief Strategy Officer, ThinkEco
“Cool NYC: a new way to empower the consumer and utility around EE, DR and CRM”

Eric Woychik
Executive Consultant, Itron
“Engaging customers at the touch points: Implications for the Smart Grid Value Chain.”

Session 6-B: Pricing #2

Will Time-Based Pricing be the fuel that turns DR and SG into a rocket ship? Listen to speakers in this session tell you what they think.

Ward Camp (moderator)
Vice President, Regulatory, Landis+Gyr

Ahmad Faruqui
Principal, The Brattle Group
“Time-based pricing – moving beyond pilots”

Judith Schwartz
President, To the Point
“Salt River Project: Time-based Pricing and the Persistence of Choice”

Dan Violette
Managing Director, Navigant
“Synergies between Dynamic Pricing and Demand Response”