Final
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Pre-Forum Workshop for Utility and Government Attendees Only
Session Co-Chairs: Paul
Reid, Azusa Light and Water and Mary Medeiros
McEnroe, Silicon Valley Power
Informal discussion on topics to include
Social Media and Electric Vehicles
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch Buffet
1:00 pm –
2:30 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Mary Medeiros McEnroe,
Silicon Valley Power and acting Utility
Energy Forum, Inc. President
Opening Keynote Presentation
Roadmap to 2020:
Strengthening Customer Relationships with Energy
Efficiency Services
Janice Berman -
Presentation, Senior Director of Energy
Efficiency Strategy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Candid discussion of the opportunities and
pitfalls in the road ahead to 2020 from her
vantage point from
years of experience in implementation of
electricity and gas energy efficiency programs
as well as renewable energy initiatives,
including greenhouse gas emissions and peak load
reduction as program drivers.
Ms. Berman is responsible for providing
strategic leadership of PG&E’s Energy Efficiency
portfolio. Prior to her current position,
she held numerous regulatory, financial and
operational positions at PG&E, including
Director of Customer Generation, Director of
Rates and Tariffs, Director of Revenue
Requirements, Director of Business Development,
and Director of Gas System Operations. Ms.
Berman earned a Bachelors degree in Mathematics
from Whitman College, and has a Masters degree
in Operations Research from Stanford University
and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at
U.C. Berkeley. She joined PG&E in 1987 as an
engineer working on the development of new power
plants, and quickly became interested in
integrating resource planning for power plants,
demand-side resources, and transmission and
distribution issues.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Refreshment Break with Energy Quiz
hosted by Efficiency Services Group
and Ruralite
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Policy/Strategic View
Session Co-Chairs: Bruce Ceniceros, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
and David Maul
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Commission Perspective
Dave Ashuckian
- Presentation, Deputy Director for Energy
Efficiency, California Energy Commission
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Industry Advocacy
Lauren Casentini
- Presentation, California Energy Efficiency
Industry Council
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Water and Energy Nexis
Dr.
Lon House
- Presentation, President, Water and Energy
Consulting
- Integrated Demand Side
Management
Lisa Paulo
- Presentation, Energy
Division, California Public Utilities Commission
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Expo
Snapshots
Session Co-Chairs: Ed Thomas, Utility Energy
Forum and Dennis Guido, Staples & Associates
Presentations
Every organization represented in the Expo area
will have up to 3 minutes for a
mini-presentation that includes:
- Background on
company and product/service offering
-
Example of an activity where your
company partners with a Western U.S. regional
utility or government agency
-
Example of an activity where your company
partners with a utility or government agency
ANYWHERE in the U.S. or the world
5:30 p.m.
Adjourn
5:30 am – 6:30 pm
Reception
hosted by
Synergy Companies
6:30 pm –8:00 pm
Dinner,
Music and
Campfire hosted by RHA
A full-course dinner with wine
followed by music from the Rock Bottom Band and
a Campfire with s'mores and hot adult beverages.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
Buffet
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Customer View
Session Co-Chairs: Vanessa Lara, Merced Irrigation District and
Janis Erickson
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Commercial Perspective
Ray Agah
- Presentation, Save Mart Supermarkets
- EECBG in Sacramento: Success Stories and
Lessons Learned
Erik de Kok -
Presentation, Ascent Environmental
- Synergy Contractor/Utility
Experience
David Price -
Presentation
- Bruce's Wholehouse Retrofit
Bruce Ceniceros -
Presentation
- My Lead Platinum Home
David Maul - Presentation
- Whole House Retrofit
Ed Thomas & Tiger Adolf
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break with Energy Quiz
hosted by Efficiency Services Group
and Ruralite
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Customer View
(continued)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Keynote
Presentation
Why Don’t Customers Do What I Want Them To, Even
if I Talk Really Loud?
William LeBlanc
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Presentation,
Senior Advisor, E Source
 While technology has long been the focus of
efficiency and renewables programs, our coming
challenge will be to shift that focus squarely
on the customer. However, customers tend to be
irrational, easily distracted, and suspicious
creatures. But through better marketing, and
using the power of social norms and behavior
change science, we can embrace these customer
challenges and use them to boost efficiency and
renewables success…and have some fun along the
way.
Bill LeBlanc is a recognized leader in energy
efficiency programs, with particular expertise
in program design, marketing, market research,
new product development, and strategy. He
assists utility clients in understanding their
customer markets, providing tools and messages
to sway customer demand, and creating overall
market strategies. He has been a leader and
innovator in energy efficiency and load
management throughout his 20 year career,
working for PG&E, EPRI, E Source, and consulting
firms.
Energy Quiz
hosted by Efficiency Services Group
and Ruralite
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Utility Program
Snapshots
Session Chairs: Mary Medeiros McEnroe,
Silicon Valley Power and Sabrina Barber,
Imperial Irrigation District
- SMUD’s Advanced Controllable
Lighting Program
Jim Parks
- Presentation, SMUD
- Learning Energy Efficiency Academic
Program - Call for Projects
Sabrina Barber
- Presentation, Imperial Irrigation District
- Low-Income Program
Francis Thompson
- Presentation, Pacific Gas and Electric
Company
- Rapid Audit: Reaching the Hard to
Reach
Mark Riffey
- Presentation, Roseville Electric
- Take Action! A Video Contest Promoting
Energy Efficiency
Monique Hampton
- Presentation, Turlock Irrigation District
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Utility Program
Stand-Up Challenge with Ice Cream Social Session
Co-Chairs: Bob Hondeville, Modesto
Irrigation District and Elaine Hebert
Join us for the craziest round of concurrent
sessions ever! Imagine speed dating meets the
lightning round of a TV game show! You choose
from storyboards detailing utility-sponsored
program initiatives or projects. Each storyboard
presenter has 5 minutes to share with you the
program’s successes and lessons learned. A bell
rings, you choose another storyboard, and the
5-minute clock starts again.
- Uncovering the
Truth About Base Loads -
Poster, Lisa
Schmidt, High Energy Audits. Discover
the results of the measurement of base loads in
1600 households through EE programs in 7 Bay
Area communities Learn how base loads vary
widely from 30W to in excess of 3.5kW, and
what's even more surprising, base loads do not
correlate strongly to house size or overall
energy consumption.
- Walking the Home
Performance Talk -
Poster, Tiger Adolf,
Building Performance Institute and Ed Thomas,
UtilityExchange.org with David Price, Synergy
Companies. Follow along as new
homeowners and whole-house veterans walk the
talk. Hear an Energy Upgrade California
adventure involving a 12-year old home with
life-threatening energy issues that became a
marketing best practice platform for the
formation of a "Comfort Club" of like-minded
neighbors.
- Deeper is Cheaper -
Poster, Brian
Kimball and Josiah
Adams, Ecology Action.
Learn how a program has delivered over
370GWh of energy savings in California with 2 to
4.7 times more energy savings per site at up to
30% lower cost to utilities than typical direct
install programs.
- Community Solar: the Next Generation of
Green Pricing Programs -
Poster, Dan
Lieberman, 3Degrees Inc. Introduction to leading utility sponsored
programs by SMUD, Xcel Energy and others to
allow customers to purchase a share of a
renewable system developed in the local
community and receive the benefits of the energy
that is produced by their share. These programs
give all residents and businesses access to
solar even as renters or if they live in houses
that have too much shade, for example.
- San Diego Housing
Authority Road Map,
Poster,Sophia
Hartkopf, TRC (formerly HMG). This storyboard will highlight a recent
San Diego Gas and Electric Company sponsored
local government partnership program supporting
two Public Housing Authorities in San Diego. The
outcome is an 'Energy Roadmap' which identifies
and prioritizes portfolio operation and upgrade
opportunities and equips agency staff with tools
and knowledge to implement these improvements
over time.
- How to Reduce Barriers and Enable
Homeowners to Complete Energy Retrofits -
Poster,
Andrew M. Healy, Cake Systems.
Discover results from surveys on homeowner
behavior of 1,355 Seattle City Light home energy
audits, coupled with theories on consumer buying
habits to offer reasons as to why homeowners
will or will not complete a retrofit project.
Analyzing survey results has provided insight
into many common factors as to why homeowners do
or do not complete an energy retrofit project.
Discussion points include consumer confusion,
social validation and conspicuous consumption.
- Lessons Learned
from $24 million in Home Energy Financing
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Poster,
Craig
Ferguson, CRHMFA Homebuyers Fund (CHF).
Often times the availability of financing is
what discourages homeowners from making energy
efficiency retrofits to their residential
properties. Starting in 2010, the CHF
Residential Energy Retrofit Program utilized
funding from the California Energy Commission to
help over 1,050 homeowners make deep energy
retrofits. The lessons learned and current
challenges of the Program are numerous. We will
share what we learned about what works and
doesn’t work in the goal towards market
transformation, how leveraging the customer
outreach of contractors reduces marketing and
advertising costs, yet creates challenges as the
housing market rebounds. We will talk about the
fine balancing of the public-private sector to
provide current funding and the need for deeper
partnerships with utility providers and other
incentive programs.
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The Multifamily Factor: Information,
Automation and Codification in MDUs -
Poster,
Garth Torvestad, Benningfield Group.
Learn about challenges and eventual successes
with deploying new rates, wireless information
displays and communicating thermostats in
multifamily settings. Discover a unique
partnership between SMUD and the CEC that may
result in new MF programs and updates to Title
24. As part of a larger multifamily code PIER
project sponsored by the CEC, Benningfield Group
is working with SMUD to discover the incremental
savings possible by offering a TOU/CPP rate
alone, or combined with an information display
or a thermostat capable of responding to price
changes.
- Use of EPC's in HVAC Replacement, a Once
in a Generation Chance to Reduce Peak Load -
Poster,
Michael Day, Rockwood Consulting.
Discover how use of evaporative pre-coolers
during HVAC equipment replacement not only
reduces annual kWh and peak KW, it also
increases on-peak cooling capacity, allowing
smaller units to be installed; influence this
summer's crop of replacements or wait over 20
years for the chance to do so again.
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Reception
hosted by Resource Solutions Group
6:30 pm – 6:45 pm
2nd Annual
Stand-Up Challenge Awards Ceremony
Special recognition hosted
by Bill LeBlanc, E Source
 6:45
pm
Dinner with
“Any Port in a Storm” hosted by Staples & Associates
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 4 years.
Previously, he lived in Colorado for 10 years.
His repertoire includes: Beatles, James Taylor,
Cat Stevens, Moody Blues, CSNY, and a little bit
of country, blues and originals inspired by the
Rocky Mountain's 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.
Friday, May 17, 2013
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast Buffet
8:30 am – 11:00 am
Energy Quiz
hosted by Efficiency Services Group
and Ruralite
Technology View
Session Chairs: Graham Parker, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory and Elaine Hebert
- Bonneville Power Administration
Research – Evolving End-uses, and Emerging
Energy Efficiency
Jennifer
Williamson -
Presentation, Bonneville Power Administration
- Sharing Objective Assessments of
Emerging Technologies
Rob Penney -
Presentation,
Washington State University-Energy
- Super Efficient Clothes Dryers Ready,
Set, . . . . . Set, . . . . Go!
Christopher Dymond
- Presentation,, Northwest Energy Efficiency
Alliance
- Estimating Reliable Savings from New
Technologies in the Northwest
Nick
O'Neil - Presentation, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- Energy-Related Sensors and
Communicating Power Supplies
Steven Lanzisera -
Presentation, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- New Title 24 and SPEED Best
Practice Technologies
Karl
Johnson - Presentation, California Institute for Energy &
Environment
11:00 pm
Late-Breaking News
This session held in reserve for
presentation on an emerging issue
12:00 pm
Adjourn
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch Buffet
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