Agenda & Presentations
Presentations links are found where names are
green & underlined.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 12 noon
Welcome Lounge
Co-Chairs: Rob Penney, WSU Extension Energy Program,
and Elaine Hebert, formerly with California Energy Commission
Stop by the hotel front desk area where a Planning Committee member
will be on-hand to answer your event questions
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Pre-Forum Workshop for Utility and Government Attendees Only
(Surf and Sand)
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 "hot
topics" to include:
- What’s the next “gateway” to energy efficiency to
replace CFLs?
- How to meet goals with changing lighting and motor
standards
- Complexity of goal-setting
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Opening Lunch
Get lunch ticket from Randy & Kim
outside Crocker Hall
(Crocker
Dining Hall)
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Welcoming Remarks
(Crocker Dining Hall)
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
(Crocker Dining
Hall)
Jeffrey Byron, former Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Jeffrey Byron, of Los Altos, was appointed to the California
Energy Commission by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in June 2006.
Commissioner Byron filled the public-at-large position with over 30
years of experience in the electric power industry and over 10 years
of service assisting customers in meeting their energy needs.
Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Byron served as president of
Byron Consulting Group, developing strategic energy solutions for
mid to large-sized firms since 2002. Commissioner Byron served as
Co-Chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Council's Energy Committee
and managed an energy efficiency program to reduce energy use and
carbon emissions among businesses and other organizations on behalf
of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Sustainable Silicon
Valley. Previously, he developed combined heat and power projects
for Calpine C*Power from 2000 to 2001, and was Energy Director for
Oracle Corporation from 1996 to 2000. Commissioner Byron served at
the Electric Power Research Institute from 1985 to 1995 in a variety
of capacities, including commercialization director and executive
technical advisor.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Policy/Strategic
View
(Crocker
Dining Hall)
Session Chairs: Dave Maul, Maul Energy Advisors, and Beth
Chambers, California Energy Commission
Panelists:
- Panama Bartholomy,
Deputy Director, Efficiency and Renewable Energy
California Energy Commission
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Harvey Sachs,
Senior Fellow, Buildings
Program, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
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Graham Parker, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
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Patrick Stoner, Statewide Local Government Energy
Efficiency Best Practices Coordinator, Local Government
Commission
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break
(Merrill Hall)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Policy/Strategic
View of Electric Vehicles
(Merrill Hall)
Session Chair: Joyce Kinnear, City of Palo Alto Utilities
Panelists:
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Meet the Sponsors
and Exhibitors
(Merrill Hall)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Networking Reception hosted by
Resource Solutions Group
(Merrill Hall)
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner
hosted by RHA, Inc.
(Crocker Dining Hall)
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Bonfire hosted by RHA, Inc.
A cozy, carbon-burning
bonfire with adult refreshments
(BBQ Area)
Wine Steward: Climatemaster, Inc.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
(Crocker
Dining
Hall)
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Meet the Sponsors and Exhibitors
(Merrill Hall)
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Customer View
(Merrill Hall)
Session Co-Chairs: Sandee Peebles, Western Area Power Administration,
and Kate Schulenberg, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Panelists:
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break
10:30 am – 12 noon
Customer View
continues
(Merrill Hall)
12 noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch
(Crocker
Dining
Hall)
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
 Midway Keynote
Presentation
(Merrill Hall)
John C. Roukema, Director of Silicon Valley Power, the
City of Santa Clara's municipal electric utility
John Roukema currently serves on the boards of the Transmission
Agency of Northern California, MSR Energy Authority, California
Municipal Utilities Association and the CVP Corporation. Mr.
Roukema has served on the APPA DEED Board of Directors and has
worked closely with the utility’s commercial and industrial
customers for many years. Previous assignments have included
Assistant Director of Customer Service and Marketing, Assistant
Director of Transmission and Distribution, and Assistant Director of
Resources. Mr. Roukema joined the City in 1980 as Senior
Electric Utility Engineer responsible for the City's substation
expansion program, and became Manager of the Power Supply Licensing
and Development Division in October 1983. Before coming to
Santa Clara, Mr. Roukema worked for PG&E, where he was a project
engineer on the design, construction and start-up of new
hydroelectric power plants.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Utility Program
Snapshots - Focus on Consumer Behavior Programs
(Merrill Hall)
Session Chairs: Joyce Kinnear, City of
Palo Alto Utilities and Ron Horstman, Western
Area Power Administration
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Utility Program
Poster Session with Ice Cream Social
(Merrill Hall)
Session Co-Chairs: Scott Terrell, Truckee-Donner Public Utility
District and Ron Horstman, Western Area Power Administration
Discover innovative utility-sponsored energy efficiency or renewable
energy programs described by the individual who designed and
implemented them. Poster topics will include:
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Community Impact of Whole House Retrofit Program,
Pepper Smith, Program Manager. Neighborhood- based
programs funded by DOE and the California Energy Commission are
implementing engineered "whole house" performance packages to reduce
energy use in selected neighborhoods. This poster presentation
outlines a retrofit case study of one such neighborhood and
describes marketing and finance methods that are expected to achieve
substantial participation and energy savings.
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Thermal Energy Storage,
John J. Burdette
III, Business Development Leader, Comprehensive Energy Solutions,
TRANE. This poster explores how Thermal
Energy Storage will play a huge role with the continued use of
renewable energy such as wind and solar PV.
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Who are Certified Home Performance
Contractors? Tiger Adolf, Director - Western
Region, Building Performance Institute. Learn who makes
up the contractor workforce that utilities and government are trying
to recruit for whole-house and other residential energy efficiency
programs. Take an in-depth look at the survey results from over
2,000 BPI test candidates to learn more about the workforce.
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Affiliates that Service CA
- The Energy Performance Score.
David Heslam, EPS
Program Manager, Earth Advantage Institute. EPS is a
building asset rating for homes that is affordable to integrate
within energy efficiency programs. Learn how EPS)is being used in 7
residential energy efficiency programs in Washington state alone,
and how it will be incorporated into programs in Massachusetts,
Virginia, and Alabama. The EPS software that creates EPS
Scores is based on Michael Blasnik's energy modeling algorithms
known as SIMPLE. SIMPLE allows for a faster audits, but does a great
job of modeling a home's actual energy use.
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Energy Scene Investigator,
Brady Fronk, student volunteer working
with Western Area Power Administration.
Learn how to deputize students or youth
groups to identify energy and water losses,
and make small changes that help homeowners
lower utility bills. Energy Scene
Investigators also collect valuable
information about residential energy use
that utilities can use to build stronger
customer service programs. This project has
the potential to raise kids' awareness about
energy efficiency, give schools and churches
a public service project, help seniors and
low-income families and improve customer
relationships.
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The Journey to Zero.
Ron Horstman, Western Area Power
Administration. New construction
isn't the only path to net-zero energy use.
Follow this roadmap to discover how one
homeowner turned his energy-hog house into
an energy producer. Existing buildings
represent the customer's and the utility's
greatest opportunity for saving energy. This
poster is a great illustration of the right
approach.
- Educating Homeowners About a
Whole House Approach,
David Munk, Senior Program
Consultant, and Regina Marston,
Senior Program Developer,
Resource Action Programs.
The "whole house"
energy upgrade concept
encourages residents to look at
their house as a comprehensive
system rather than focusing on
individual elements.
This concept is new to
residential customers and there
is a great need to educate
customers.
This poster will describe
how HomeWise provides utilities,
commissions, state and local
agencies and other key
stakeholders a program that will
educate customers about their
house as a system, provide basic
self-install energy efficiency
measures, direct them to take
the utility or program-based
online survey and direct them to
contractor resources that can
perform energy audits and
install energy upgrades. The
program tracks the activities of
each customer through surveys
and online data collection and
provides a Program Summary
Report for EM&V.
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What Can Utilities
Learn From 2,900 Lighting Demos?,
Kelly Cunningham, Outreach Director for
the California Lighting Technology Center.
Learn about the more than 2,900 lighting
demonstrations installed at over 100
college, state, and federal sites throughout
California as a result of the California
Lighting Technology Center’s (CLTC) PIER SPEED Program. Savings from these demonstrations equal more than
4.6 million kWh and 3.9 million pounds of
CO2, or $600,000 total energy cost.
Hear about the dozens of technologies
that have been commercialized, and products
and best practices that have been proven to
reduce the energy used for lighting in
real-world environments.
Discover how CLTC helps bridge the
gap between lab and marketplace through the
PIER SPEED Program.
- Helping Commercial
Customers Make Green Energy Choices,
Rick Brown, Ph.D., President, TerraVerde
Renewable Partners. Commercial
customers still have difficulty sorting
through all of the incentives and programs
for going green, particularly local
governments such as school districts. Using
solar DG as a case example, this session
will review successful strategies for
educating public sector executives and
governing bodies on green energy choices.
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Looking for Energy Savings
in Data Centers, Michael
Drury, Regional Marketing Director, Nexant
Inc. and Safdar Chaudry, PhD., Sacramento
Office Head, Nexant Inc. Based on its
collaborative work with the Intel Data
Center organization, Nexant shares its
approach to simplifying the identification
of energy savings in Data Centers.
This session will enable utilities to
replicate the approach within programs of
their own, and to address smaller Data
Center projects cost effectively.
Energy use by Data Centers is thought to be
one of the fastest growing energy uses in
the U.S., doubling every five years.
According to the US EPA 2007 report to
Congress, 38% of data center energy use in
the US comes from enterprise-class data
centers of greater than 5,000 square feet.
The remaining 62% is used in smaller data
centers, which means that these smaller data
centers offer the largest overall chance for
energy savings in this industry. This
poster session shows the work with Intel
which has led to a simple approach to
finding savings in what has been regarded as
a "hard-to-reach" market, which combines I.T
and building facilities savings.
- Online Customer Engagement
that Actually Works, Aaron
Goldfeder, President, EnergySavvy.com. It's easy
to talk about user-friendly websites that
engage customers, but it's difficult
in-practice to achieve real measurable
success. This poster demonstrates the 50%
conversion-rate funnel of a high performing
energy efficiency program website. The
poster outlines the flow of 3,000 unique
visitors through drop-off points as well as
primary and secondary conversion points.
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Customers, Utilities and
Contractors: It takes the Entire Village to
Raise the Most Savings, Dennis
Guido, Vice President, Staples & Associates.
Hear real-world examples of how using a
comprehensive approach has led to increased
energy efficiency for residential customers
and business owners and improved energy
savings for the utilities.
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Make Your Program Count -
Preparing Programs for Evaluation,
Sophia Hartkopf, Associate Project
Manager for
Cynthia M. Austin, Senior Project
Manager.
Program evaluation is a resource-intense
activity that can provide
program managers with a great deal of
information about how well
their programs are operating. Unfortunately
it is not uncommon for
an evaluator to discover after an evaluation
is underway that the program
is not ready for it. A program may not be
fully operational, for
example, or may not be able to handle the
data collection requirements
of an evaluation. Determining whether a
program is ready for
an evaluation prior to beginning it can help
ensure that precious
evaluation resources are used at the most
appropriate time.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Networking Reception
hosted by Resource Action Programs
(Merrill Hall)
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner
hosted by Staples Energy Marketing & Services
(Crocker
Dining Hall)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Any Port in a Storm" hosted by Staples Energy Marketing & Services
Port Wine Tasting
(Surf and Sand)
Wine Steward: Climatemaster, Inc.
Friday, May 6, 2011
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
(Crocker Dining Hall)
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Emerging
Technologies View
(Merrill Hall)
Session Chair: Elaine Hebert, formerly with
California Energy Commission; and Rob Penney, WSU Extension Energy
Program
Panelists:
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break
(Merrill Hall)
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Emerging Technologies
View
continues
(Merrill Hall)
11:30 am
Late-Breaking News: Energy Upgrade
California Update
Beth Chambers for Panama Bartholomy,
Deputy Director, Efficiency and Renewable Energy
California Energy Commission
(Merrill Hall)
- Cancelled
12:00 pm
Adjourn
(Merrill Hall)
Lunch - On Your Own
Or you can purchase a
ticket when you check in at registration for $10
to eat Lunch at Asilomar.
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