January 30, 2008 

Registration 12:00pm – 12:30pm

 

 

OPENING REMARKS 12:30pm to 1:15 pm

Turning on Distributed Energy Resources

Locally, Nationally and Globally

 

WELCOME - DAVID ROHY

 

STATE SENATOR CHRISTINE KEHOE

CHAIR, Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee

 

 

PLENARY SESSION 1:15pm to 2:30pm        

 

Climate Change AB 32: Value of DER

 

Moderator: Jeffrey Reed - Director of Strategic Planning and Development, SDG&E and SoCalGas

  • V John White – CEERT
  • Dorothy Rothrock - Vice President, CMTA
  • Dan Pellissier - Assistant Secretary, CAL-EPA
  • Jan Smutny Jones - Executive Director, IEPA

 

 

BREAK  - 2:30pm to 3:00 pm

 

 

PLENARY SESSION,  3:00pm – 4:30pm

 

Energy Policies and Initiatives

 

Moderator - Nick Lenssen – Senior Director, Energy Insights

  • Alex Kim - Director of Program Strategy and Development, SDG&E
  • Kristin Grenfell – NRDC
  • Les LoBaugh - Green Buildings, partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
  • Ivan Urlaub – Ex. Dir., North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association
  • Gary Mathews – Vice-Chancellor;  UCSD Sustainable Communities Program

 

 

 

RECEPTION  5:30pm to 7:30pm

Barcino Pavillion

 

                 

SOLAR TURBINES BOAT TOUR 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Sponsors  - By Invitation


 

January 31, 2008  - CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT AREA – 7:15am to 8:15am

 

 

PLENARY SESSION   8:15am - 8:45am

 

David Rohy – Welcome & Introduction

Keynote Address Nancy Floyd – Founder, Managing Partner, Nth Power

 

 

PLENARY SESSION – 8:45am -  10:00am

 

DER is ON!

 

Moderator:  Andrew McAllister, Director of Operations - California Center for Sustainable Energy

  • Mary Jane Jagodzinski Senior Project Manager- Community Housing Works, Solar Affordable Housing project
  • Tom Blair – Deputy Director Energy Conservation, City of San Diego
  • Chris Lyons – Solar Turbines, San Diego CHP Applications
  • Alan Ball - Qualcomm
  • Sally Muir - SDG&E Sustainable Communities Program

 

 

PLENARY SESSION – 10:10am - 11:15 am

 

Proactive Initiatives

 

Moderator:  Scott Anders, Executive Director, EPIC, USD School of Law

  • William Keese - Co-Chair,  WGA Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative
  • Michael Eckhart - President, ACORE (American Council for Renewable Energy)
  • Katie McGinty – Secretary, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection
  • Nancy Whalen – Director of Marketing, Climate Action Registry

 

 

PLENARY SESSION – 11:15am – 12:30pm

 

Financing Clean Energy

 

Moderator:  Michelle P. Kraus, CEO, Carbon Tracing, Inc.

  • Lisa Bicker – President, California Clean Energy Fund
  • Bill Garnett - principal, Energy Capital Investments
  • Jim Corlett – Senior Technology Development Advisor SDG&E,
  • Gene Beck - EnviroTech Financials
  • Marianne Wu, Director of Technology– MDV

 

 

Luncheon – 12:30pm -1:45pm

Jim Boyd - Vice Chair, CEC

 

 

 

                                                             

 

BREAKOUT SESSION A
2:00pm to 3:30pm

 

Climate Change

Moderator:  Richard Brent, Solar Turbines

·         Kentaro Funaki – Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO)

·         Dave Schnaars - Solar Turbines

·         Andrea Cook - CA Center for Sustainable Energy

·         US Mexico – Dr. Alan Sweedler, SDSU

 

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION B
2:00pm to 3:30pm

 

Heat Recovery and Recycled Energy Generation

Moderator: Keith Davidson - DE Solutions Inc.

·         Ian Spanswick - York International

·         Gearoid Foley - Integrated CHP Systems Corp.

·         Steve Gillette – Capstone Turbine Corporation 

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION C
2:00pm to 3:30pm

 

DER Integrating into the GRID

Moderator: Tom Tanton

 

·         Stephanie Hamilton – SCE

·         Tom Bialek - SDG&E

·         Andrew McAllister - California Center for Sustainable Energy

·         Mark Rawson - SMUD

·         Melicia Charles CPUC

·         Andrew Yip , PG&E 

 

Break – 3.30pm – 3.45 pm

 

BREAKOUT SESSION D
3:45pm to 5:15pm

 

Where is the HORIZON?

Moderator: Dave Berokoff - SEMPRA Energy Utilities

·         Ben Norris - DUIT

·         Pasquale Campanile - Centro Ricerche Fiat

·         Gregg Dixon – EnerNoc

·         James Bing – New Energy Options, Inc. - Network Protector Enabled Generation Project

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION E
3:45pm to 5:15pm

 

Microgrids v. SMART GRIDS – Business Applications

Moderator:  George Simons, Itron

·         Chris Marnay - CERTS, LBNL

·         Terry Mohn – SDG&E's -UCAN Smart Grid Study

·         Charles Vartanian – SCE 

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION F
3:45pm to 5:15pm

Local Sustainable Opportunities

Moderator:  Woody Clark

·         Stuart Cooley - Santa Monica

·         Doug Newman, Director, National Energy Center
for Sustainable Communities

·         Dale Merrick – Canby CA District Geothermal Heating

·         Los Angeles Community Colleges

 

 

 

CADER’S 10TH  ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATORY RECEPTION AND AWARDS DINNER

RECEPTION – 6:00pm - 7:00pm

DINNER and AWARDS – 7:00pm – 9:00pm

 

Master of Ceremonies:  John Geesman, Commissioner California Energy Commission

CO-CHAIR – ACORE

 

Keynote Address:  Clint Wilder, author “The Clean Tech Revolution”

 

ENTERTAINMENT - Glenn Erath – CUSTOM COMEDY

9:00pm – 9:30pm

 

 

February 1, 2008CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT AREA – 7:00am to 8:00am

 

OPENING REMARKS- 8:00am to 9:15 am

 

David Rohy (introduction)

 

US NAVY DER Applications (inv.)

 

 

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION G:   9:30am to 10:45am

 

CHP Deployment and Applications

 

Moderator:  Tod O’Connor, CADER

 

 

BREAKOUT SESSION H: 9:30am to 10:45am

 

DER Fuel Diversity

 

Moderator:  Susan Brown – CEC

  • Nancy Pfeffer - Zero Waste Initiative,
  • Cynthia Verdugo-Peralta - Alternative Transportation Fuels
  • Jeff Cox - Fuel Cell Energy
  • James Stewart - Chairman BioEnergy Producers’ Association

 

 

 

WRAP-UP PANEL: 11:00am to 12:00pm

CALL TO ACTION

 

Moderator/Speaker:  Irene Stillings - Executive Director CA Center for Sustainable Energy

  • David Rubin - PG&E
  • Clint Wilder - “The Clean Tech Revolution”
  • Paul Clanon - Executive Director, CPUC
  • Solar Community
  • Scott Anders, Executive Director, EPIC, USD School of Law

 

Representatives of the DER and Solar Industries, End Users,

Utilities and Public Sector Debate the Day

 Audience Participation Encouraged

 

TOURS  12:30pm – 2:30pm

VA Hospital, La Jolla – CHP

University of California, San Diego

www.cader.org