Agenda (as of March 8, 2010)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Pre-Forum Workshop for Utility and Government Attendees Only: Public-Private Utilities: Common Challenges
Session Co-Chairs: Mary Medeiros McEnroe, Silicon Valley Power; Paul Reid, Azusa Light and Water; and Kate Schulenberg, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Candid "roundtable" discussion (rather than presentation) on topics to include:

Home performance and home ratings deployment
Evaluation, measurement and verification
Integrating low and moderate income programs, Frances Thompson, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch Buffet

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Joyce Kinnear, President, Utility Energy Forum, Inc. and Utility Marketing Services Manager, City of Palo Alto Utilities

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
Welcome Keynote Presentation
Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

wellinghoff photo Jon Wellinghoff was named Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency that oversees wholesale electric transactions and interstate electric transmission and gas transportation in the United States, by President Barack Obama on March 19, 2009. A member of the Commission since 2006, the U.S. Senate reconfirmed him to a full, five-year FERC term in December 2007.

Chairman Wellinghoff's priorities at FERC include opening wholesale electric markets to renewable resources, providing a platform for participation of demand response and other distributed resources in wholesale electric markets including energy efficiency and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and promoting greater efficiency in our nation's energy infrastructure through the institution of advanced technologies and system integration. He was instrumental in creating FERC's Energy Innovations Sector (EIS), which is responsible for investigating and promoting new efficient technologies and practices in the energy sectors under FERC's jurisdiction.

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Policy/Strategic View
Session Chairs: Dave Maul, Maul Energy Advisors, and Randy Manion, Western Area Power Administration
Panelists:

Dave Hawkins, California Independent System Operator
Dave Modisette, Executive Director, California Municipal Utilities Association
Dave Reynolds, Northern California Power Agency
Mani Pitcock, Pacific Gas and Electric Company on Stimulus-related activities
Jim Parks, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, on Smart Grid
Ron Horstman, Western Area Power Administration on Energy Planning in the Next Decade

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Policy/Strategic View continues

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Meet the Sponsors and Exhibitors

5:00 pm
Adjourn

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Reception

6:30 pm
Dinner with Entertainment hosted by RHA, Inc.
A full-course dinner followed by light musical entertainment from a piano with sax/flute/clarinet duo led by Tom Delaney

Tom Delaney's career began in and around New York City, playing clubs and concerts with the likes of the Platters, the Temptations and the Coasters while still a teenager. He later graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a degree in music arranging/composition. Tom has also played with Stevie Wonder, David Clayton Thomas, Hoyt Axton and Toots Thielmans, among others, and was a featured soloist with the Buddy Rich big band. As a member of various Reno-Tahoe hotel-casino house orchestras, Tom has played with stars such as Linda Rondstadt, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Sammy Davis and Mel Torme. Tom was chairman of the music department at Sierra Nevada College, and his own big band was the house orchestra in the Headliner Room of the North Tahoe Cal-Neva hotel-casino.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast Buffet

8:30 am – 9:00 am
Meet the Sponsors and Exhibitors

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Customer View
Session Chairs: Janis Erickson, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and Sandee Peebles, Western Area Power Administration
Panelists:

Tara Vogel, Renewable Energy Analyst, Nevada State Energy Office
Sandy Kirschenmann, Vice Chancellor, Los Rios Community College, Sacramento
Christine Tam, City of Palo Alto on LED Street Lights

10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break

10:30 am – 12 noon
Customer View continues

12 noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch Buffet

1:00 am – 1:30 pm
Midway Keynote Presentation
Ed Pollock, Team Leader, Residential Building Research, U.S. Department of Energy

Edward Pollock has over forty years of experience researching energy use in buildings. He currently is the Team Leader for the Residential Buildings Research Team in the Office of Building Technologies (OBT). The research focuses on improving the energy performance of individual building components including walls, windows, lighting, heating and cooling systems and the other equipment use in buildings as well as the integration of these components so as to produce the most efficient residential and commercial buildings and the effective use of renewable energy systems to supplement the building the energy needs.

The residential research program, known as Building America, applies a systems engineering approach to select the most cost effective combination of energy savings strategies for homes in each climate zone in the U.S. The ultimate goal is to develop homes that produce as much energy as they use at a cost point where the incremental cost of financing the energy efficiency improvements will be equal to or less than the cost of the energy saved.

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Utility Program Snapshots
Session Chairs: Dave Reynolds, Northern California Power Agency, and Joyce Kinnear, City of Pal Alto Utilities
Panelists:

Paul Reid, Azusa Light and Water on LED backlit televisions and computer monitors
Jennifer Eskil, Bonneville Power Administration
John Hargrove, NV Energy on new/innovative Nevada Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs
Martin Bailey, Roseville (Calif.) Electric on AB811 Efficiency Loan Programs — pros and cons of Roseville’s loan program, how the county-wide program will work, and what Roseville has had to do to meet the county’s criteria

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Utility Program Poster Session with Ice Cream Social
Session Chair: Scott Terrell, Truckee Donner Public Utility District
Discover innovative utility-sponsored energy efficiency or renewable energy programs described by the individual who designed and implemented them.

Renewable Energy Certification Program Marketing Best Practices
Robin Quarrier, Center for Resource Solutions
Innovative marketing best practices and marketing strategies employed by these utilities participating in the same voluntary certification program for renewable energy: Santee Cooper, We Energies, Dominion Virginia Power, Tennessee Valley Authority, Silicon Valley Power, Georgia Power, and DTE Energy. The number of residential customers enrolled in certified green pricing programs doubled in 2008 and overall green pricing sales rose 80 percent.
Super Lamp Initiative
Kelly Cunningham, California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis
The Super Lamp initiative is a collaborative effort among California utilities, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and California Lighting Technology Center to meet California's goal of reducing residential lighting consumption to 50% of 2007 levels by 2018. The strategy is to develop high-efficacy light sources that achieve interchangeability with incandescent lighting. The draft of the performance specification of what could be the next generation of medium screw-based lamps.
Customer-Sited Generation in California: Markets and Lessons Learned
Jennifer Barnes, Navigant Consulting
Key findings from a market characterization study on customer-sited wind and fuel cell systems for California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program. The market characterization includes a review of market potential and barriers, and federal, state and local policies that affect the market for and availability of customer-sited generation including feed-in tariffs and city and county zoning ordinances. The characterization also explores successful and unsuccessful project characteristics.
Addressing the Multifamily Buildings Market through Whole-Building Programs
Julieann Summerford, Heschong Mahone Group
Whole-building multifamily programs continue to fall through program portfolio cracks. One-third of Californian’s live in multifamily buildings (which house most low-income tenants), but funds focus on single-family homeowners. This presentation will report on market demand, a successful third-party program model (Southern California Gas Company and Southern California Edison), and case studies of a whole-building multifamily program.
NV Energy's RenewableGenerations: Solar, Wind and Hydro Incentive Program
Larry Burton, NV Energy RenewableGenerations
Learn how RenewableGenerations started quietly in 2004 as a solar PV demonstration program. With participation hitting record levels, the solar program was made a permanent program and demonstration small wind and water power incentive programs were added. With participation reaching record levels in 2009, the marriage of incentive, stimulus funds along with approval of third party ownership will sharply increase participate in the public building and school sectors across the State.
Integrated Data Management for Utility DSM and Renewables Programs
P. S. (Vish) Vishwanath, Paragon Consulting Services
Learn how implementing an integrated approach to managing the DSM and renewables program data will provide a powerful platform for utilities to not only get full value for their investment, but also enable them to cost effectively manage their complete portfolio of programs. This paper will discuss how this approach can be implemented to achieve the above benefits and will present data from a real case with NV Energy highlighting the significant results delivered by such a strategy.

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Reception

6:30 pm
Dinner with “Any Port in a Storm” hosted by Staples Energy Marketing & Services
A full-course dinner followed by port wine tasting and the classic rock acoustic guitar stylings and singing of Kip Yager

Kip Yager, originally from upstate New York, has been playing solo on his 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars in the Tahoe Basin for the last 2 years. Previously, he lived in Colorado for 10 years, playing venues along the Front Range and the Western slopes at many of the ski resorts. His repertoire includes: Beatles, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Moody Blues, CSNY, and a little bit of country, blues and originals inspired by the Rocky Mountains laidback life style. Kip's passion for music is his way of connecting with the ones who grew up in the 60's & 70's. Kip has touched many souls through his music and hopes you will enjoy it also. Peace & Love.

Friday, May 7, 2010

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast Buffet

8:30 am – 10:00 am
Emerging Technologies
Session Chair: Elaine Hebert, California Energy Commission, and Rob Penney, WSU Extension Energy Program
Panelists:

Karl Johnson, California Institute of Energy & Environment
Scott McNall, California State University, Chico
Omar Siddiqui, Electric Power Research Institute
Micah Allen, E Source
Graham Parker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break

10:30 am – 11:30 pm
Emerging Technologies continues

11:30 pm
Late-Breaking News
This spot on the agenda is reserved for emerging issues related to federal initiatives such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

12:30 pm
Adjourn

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch Buffet