8:30 AM – Welcome, Elliot Boardman, Executive Director, PLMA
8:45 KEYNOTE SESSION:
PSE&G's myPower Program - Fitting DR into a Strategic Framework, Susanne W. Chiu, PSE&G
PSE&G is using DR as a corporate strategy and as part of an overall strategy to face the market with AMR and services. These services include DR but are more expansive. Ms. Chui will present the thinking behind this business strategy.
9:30 AM
Session 1: Demand Response: The Big Picture
Moderator: Joel Gilbert, Apogee Interactive
How does an energy company assemble a portfolio of resources to mitigate both capital and operating cost risks? Are all DR resources the same? Why are some more valuable than others? What does this say about the current thoughts of using the ISO hourly clearing prices as the valuation?
How Big is your Vision for Demand Response?, Mike Weedall, Vice President , Bonneville Power Administration Imagine trying to put a puzzle together if you didn't have the picture on the box as a guide. Hear how BPA has painted their picture and is beginning to see how the pieces fit together. Terry will illustrate how BPA is looking into creative portfolios to build a web of influence on future energy sources for their region.
See how the emerging family of grid-friendly appliances could embed price and reliability responsive devices throughout the electrical system in homes and businesses. Don will demonstrate the near-commercial and emergent technology innovations that could reshape electrical distribution planning.
11:00 AM – Break
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11:15 AM
Session 2: Determining Value of Demand Response
Moderator: Elliot Boardman, PLMA
One of the big questions about demand response has always been its value. We have all seen the familiar graph demonstrating how a small amount of demand response has a huge effect on electricity prices during periods of peak demand. But, how to determine how much demand response is sufficient and what is the value of that demand response on a year-to-year basis has been a big question.
In this session, two experts will explain recent projects to place a real value on demand response and how demand response can be used in planning will be discussed.
Assessing DRR in a Resource Planning Context
Dan Violette, Summit Blue Consulting
Role of DRR in Long-Term Planning
Ken Corum, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
12:30 PM – Lunch
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1:30 PM
Session 3: Reports from the Scorching Summer of 2005
Moderator: Ross Malme, RETX
For several years, demand response programs had not been widely used across the country because of relatively mild weather and adequate supplies of electricity. However, the summer of 2005 was a hot one and demand response programs in nearly all parts of the country were put to the test. How did they perform?
A panel of experts for the country’s ISO’s and utilities will discuss the performance of various DR programs and the results on peak load pricing and supplies.
Robert Burke, ISO New England
Mike Rufo, Quantum Consulting (evaluation consultant for the CA programs)
Dave Lawrence, NY ISO (invited)
3:00 PM – Break
3:15 PM
Session 4: Using Local Under-Frequency Controllers for Demand Response
Moderator: Jim Losleben, Cannon Technologies
Current research has shown that Local Under-Frequency Controllers, distributed throughout the electricity grid at the loads, can be an effective tool for reliability, load management and load scheduling. This panel will discuss the models used and the research performed to demonstrate the value of the concept.
Panelists:
Daniel Trudnowski, Montana Tech of the University of Montana to discuss the value of the concept
Matthew Donnelly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to discuss the, “Grid Friendly Appliance”, project
Doug Backer, Cannon Technologies, will describe how any electric load can be turned into a Local Under-Frequency Controller using existing equipment and how the concept could be marketed.
5:30 – 7:00 PM – Reception
Tuesday, November 1, 20058:30 AM
Session 5: PIER Demand Response Research Center – Progress Reports on Current Projects
Moderator: Roger Levy, Levy Associates
The California Energy Commission created the PIER Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) in the spring of 2004. Managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the DRRC is charged with developing and conducting comprehensive research to advance demand response in California. The overall goal of the DRRC is to reduce energy costs, provide customer choice, and improve the reliability/quality and overall value of California’s electric systems through improved demand response. The Center is funded by the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.
The DRRC focuses on near term research that emphasizes demand response technologies, policies, programs and practices. To facilitate implementation, DRRC research emphasizes multi-institutional participation with key stakeholders in the demand response market including, utilities, regulators, developers, consumer groups, industry trade associations and other research groups. The DRRC is actively pursuing outreach efforts to establish partnerships that will broaden the expertise directed toward and value received from each research project.
This session will focus on results of the three demand response projects active as of August 2005.
Automated DR in Large Facilities – Dave Watson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The goal of this demonstration project is to develop and evaluate methods for fully automating demand response in large commercial and industrial facilities. Now entering its third year, this project includes 18 large commercial and industrial sites throughout California representing over 10,000,000 ft² of facility space. The facilities include a wide variety of energy management and control systems that manage HVAC, lighting and other facility load. Under this project, all energy management and control systems have been linked via the Internet and automatically shed and shift load based on customer preferences in response to price signals. During the 2004 field trials, the project demonstrated over 4 MW of demand reduction. Fully automated load reductions reduce potentially disruptive impacts on building occupants and increase the availability of demand response for peak reduction or emergency control. During 2005 testing will include collaboration with PG&E to examine large customer automated demand response to critical peak pricing.
Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass - Carlos Haiad, Southern California Edison The goal of this demonstration project is to evaluate the viability of using existing building thermal mass to shift cooling loads for demand response in a variety of small and large commercial buildings. "Pre-cooling" techniques reduce the building mass temperatures and interior temperatures in the early part of the day and reduce cooling electricity demand and electricity use in the afternoon to take advantage of real-time, critical peak and other time varying rate options. This is a collaborative project with Southern California Edison, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Purdue University. During 2004 field trials and simulations demonstrated substantial load reductions while maintaining occupant and tenant comfort. Expanded testing during 2005 will examine additional pre-cooling strategies.
Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing - Galen Barbose, Electricity Markets and Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory This two-phased project conduced an in-depth analysis of large commercial and industrial customer response to Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation's (NMPC) default-service day-ahead hourly pricing tariff. NMPC's tariff is the first and longest running default RTP service in North America. The first phase of this study examined customer satisfaction, hedging choices and price response through in-depth customer market research. These customers faced several periods of high prices during the study period (2000-2004), thereby providing an opportunity to assess their response to volatile hourly prices. The second phase quantified customer price response and provides insight into differences in response by customer and business type.
10:00 AM – Break
10:30 AM
Session 6: Real Use of BPL for Demand ResponseThis panel will discuss of the use of Broadband Over PowerLine (BPL) to control load at a major North American Utility. Panelists will review the technical capability of BPL for demand response and how the extra value of demand response helps to justify the cost/benefit of this new technology that will change how utilities conduct business. This presentation will review an actual application of BPL in a commercial application (not a small pilot) where the original intent was to provide Internet access to the customer and demand response was an after thought that made the project economically feasible.
Panelists: Dave Hyland, Comverge Speaker tba from the utility Dave Mulder, Current Technologies
Noon - Adjourn