National Town Meeting and Symposium on Demand Response; Berkeley, CA - June 26-27, 2006; U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee and Demand Response Research Center

Conference Agenda and Presentations

Monday, June 26, 2006

Time	Speaker	Topic
7:30am	Registration and Continental Breakfast Exhibits Open
8:30am	Welcome and Organizational Reports
	Dan Delurey Executive Director Demand Response Coordinating Committee
	Mary Ann Piette Director Demand Response Research Center
8:45am	Keynote Address
	Dian Grueneich Commissioner California Public Utilities Commission	Demand Response in California: Successes and Challenges (75 KB, 13 pp)
	Joseph Desmond Undersecretary for Energy Affairs California Resources Agency
9:45am	Break
10:00am	Symposium Opens Symposium sessions will feature presentations on the latest research findings, new results from programs and pilots, and new, cutting edge issues. There will be an active moderator for each session and discussion will focus on common myths, issues and lessons learned.
	Symposium Track A — Pricing and Rates
	Moderator: Ahmad Faruqui CRA International	Pricing and Rates (298 KB, 7 pp)
	Dr. Bernie Neenan VP Pricing and Demand Response, Utilipoint	A Comparative Assessment of Default Service Pricing Plans (190 KB, 15 pp) An innovative new rate that bridges the gap between critical peak pricing and real-time pricing, where peak hours are indexed to the ISO wholesale cost.
	Richard Voytas Manager, Corporate Analysis, Ameren Services	AmerenUECritical Peak Pricing Pilot (158 KB, 15 pp) A case study presentation of the Ameren two-year critical peak pricing pilot that evaluated several different rate forms and control equipment.
	Ed Morrison Assistant Project Manager, Residential Energy Affordability Program, NYSERDA	The Westchester County $mart Homes Pilot (339 KB, 18 pp) A case study on the NYSERDA Westchester $mart Homes Pilot that combines elements of a smart home with an innovative indexed TOU rate.
	Chuck Goldman Staff Scientist, LBNL	Customer Experience with Real Time Pricing as the Default Service (96 KB, 22 pp) A summary of RTP offerings, problems, successes and policy implications.
	Symposium Track B — Demand Response and Grid Management
	Moderator: Laura Rooke Portland General Electric	Demand Response and Grid Management (285 KB, 3 pp)
	Joe Eto Director of CERTS, Staff Scientist, LBNL	Demand Response as a System Reliability Resource (426 KB, 12 pp) A case study on the SCE-CERTS program to examine the use of air conditioner load control for spinning reserve and grid reliability.
	Charles Parsons Director, Business Development, Cannon Technologies	Retrofit Appliance Controls (500 KB, 18 pp) A review of Hawaii Electric program that employs a remotely configurable voltage control capability installed with their water heater load control program.
	Joe Barra Manager, Customer Energy Resources, Portland General Electric	A Utility's Vision for Embedded Appliance Controls (390 KB, 21 pp) A review of the first results from the PGE-PNNL use of embedded chipsets in Whirlpool appliances to automatically address frequency and reliability concerns.
12:00	Lunch
1:00pm	Symposium Continues
	Symposium Track C — Automated Building Controls and Residential Technology Opportunities
	Moderator: Dave Watson Research Consultant, DRRC	Automated Building Controls and Residential Technology Opportunities (292 KB, 4 pp)
	Mary Ann Piette Director, Demand Response Research Center, LBNL	Automated Demand Response in Large Commercial Facilities (927 KB, 21 pp) Standardized Internet protocols to automatically connect with and dispatch large commercial energy management systems in response to utility or ISO price/reliability signals.
	Dan Sharplin Chairman, Site Controls, Incorporated	Site Controls (315 KB, 13 pp) Overview and demonstration of a web-based system for aggregated demand response, real-time visibility and verification — targeting facilities of 50kW to 200kW.
	Mark Martinez Manager of Load Management and Program Development, Southern California Edison	Residential Demand Response Technologies: A Consumer's Guide (1.3 MB, 21 pp) A consumer guide to what's new in controls, information displays and other interesting "gadgets".
	Symposium Track D — A Vision of the Future
	Moderator: Ron Hoffman Consultant to the Public Interest Energy Research, CEC	A Vision of the Future (294 KB, 6 pp)
	Roger Levy Consultant Program Development and Outreach Manager, DRRC	A Future Vision of Demand Response (714 KB, 18 pp) A case study that examines the utility, customer, ISO, and regulatory perspectives of a future vision of Demand Response.
	Deirdre Mulligan Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Clinical Professor, Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley	Privacy Considerations in Demand Response Energy Systems (77 KB, 23 pp) A legal review of security and privacy issues that will arise from expanded AMI and DR implementation.
	Paul Wright A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley	The California Challenge (13 MB, 32 pp) What's new in hardware research — state-of-the art developments in programmable communicating thermostats and customer information displays that employ self-configuring networks, energy scavenging and more.
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	Keynote Address
	Jackalyne Pfannensteil Commissioner California Energy Commission
	Commencement of Town Meeting
	Dan Delurey U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee
5:00-7:00pm	Reception

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

7:30am	Continental Breakfast Exhibits Open
8:30am	Roundtable Session #1 The View from the Commissioner's Seat Sandra Hochstetter, Chairman, Arkansas PSC Marsha Smith, Commissioner, Idaho PUC Bob Lieberman, Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission Jon Wellinghoff, FERC Nominee, Attorney, Beckley Singleton
9:30am	Roundtable Session #2 EPACT Section 1252 Larry Mansueti, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) David Kathan, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Jim Spiers, National Rural Electric Cooperatives (NRECA) Jim Parks, SMUD and American Public Power Association Sandra Waldstein, Vermont Public Service Commission Tom Franz, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission Christine Wright, Texas Public Utilities Commission
10:30am	Break
10:45am	Roundtable Session #3 Advanced Metering Developments and Deployments Paul DeMartini, Southern California Edison Tim Vahlstrom, Pacific Gas & Electric Ed Fong, San Diego Gas & Electric Laurie Reid, Ontario Energy Board Darren Brady, Puget Sound Energy Steve George, Freeman, Sullivan & Company
12:00	Lunch
1:00pm	Roundtable Session #4 Demand Response, Energy Efficiency and the Environment David Nemtzow, Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability, New South Wales, Australia (formerly) Joel Swisher, Rocky Mountain Institute Mike Messenger, California Energy Commission Harvey Michaels, Nexus Energy Software Brian Lynch, Sempra Energy Services, National Association of Energy Service Companies
1:40pm	Roundtable Session #5 Programs and Pricing — What's New? Susan Covino, PJM Interconnection Henry Yoshimura, ISO-NE Sherman Elliott, MISO Mark Patterson, ERCOT John Goodin, CA-ISO Ron Darnell, Xcel Anthony Star, Chicago Energy Cooperative Justin Bradley, Silicon Valley Leadership Group Steve Sunderhauf, PEPCO
3:10pm	Roundtable Session #6 Demand Response and the Smart Grid David Brewster, EnerNOC Heber Weller, Modern Grid Initiative Wade Malcolm, EPRI Matt Owen, Itron
3:30pm	Conclusion of National Town Meeting and Symposium on Demand Response Reception

Conference Agenda and Presentations

Monday, June 26, 2006

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006