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Intelligent Efficiency Conference Overview
Intelligent efficiency holds the promise of substantially reducing energy use while transforming many energy-using markets. Achieving this outcome requires collaboration among the efficiency, technology, and user communities. These communities are largely distinct, and few opportunities have existed to date for the energy efficiency and technology communities to interact. Past interactions have been limited to speakers from one community addressing assemblies of the other.
The 2016 Intelligent Efficiency Conference brought together individuals from the IT, telecom, energy efficiency, utility, solution provider, and policy sectors to share and learn how information and communications technology (ICT) can improve the use of energy. The conference featured speakers, plenaries, and over a dozen breakout sessions. The theme of the 2016 conference was “Lessons from the field, Vision to the future”. With this in mind, the breakout session speakers shared case studies and field results while featured speakers shared insights into how such results provide a glimpse into the future.
Sessions focused on the policies, programs, and practices that are changing and improving as a result of the application of ICT. The Trading Space session provided innovators in search of partners, researchers in search of data, and vendors in search of clients a chance to describe their work, make their pitches and invite participation.
Attendees learned, and participated in, discussions on smart buildings, smart cities, integrated mobility, energy efficiency program design, customer engagement, project and program evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V), and the integration and load balancing of distributed energy resources into the electric grid. The 2016 conference featured insights from local and state policy stakeholders about how Texas is and can embrace intelligent efficiency.
Participants Included: Energy efficiency program developers and administrators, state and local government policymakers, staff, and associations, chief technology officers and chief information officers, service providers, investors, entrepreneurs, hardware and software developers, ICT solution providers, building automation providers, and smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart buildings, and smart cities leaders.
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Program and Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker
James L. Connaughton, President and CEO, Nautilus Data Technologies
James L. Connaughton is a nationally prominent energy, environment, technology expert, as both corporate leader and White House policymaker. He has creatively developed market-based solutions to some of the world’s most significant challenges – deploying innovative technology that saves money and reduces environmental impact. Read more about James' experience here.
Plenaries and breakout sessions covered how intelligent efficiency is changing:
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Energy efficiency program design and execution
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Utility regulation and state and local policies
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Grid integration of distributed energy resources
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Local government services to community residents
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Evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V)
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Data analytics to identify opportunities and track savings
Presentations
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Monday Presentations | Tuesday Presentations
Monday, December 5
Welcome and Introductions
Steve Nadel, Executive Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Ethan Rogers, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Keynote Address: Using Information and Communications Technologies to Advance Global Causes
James L. Connaughton, President and CEO, Nautilus Data Technologies
Plenary Session: Intelligent Efficiency Policy Insights
Moderator: Maggie Molina, Utilities, State, and Local Policy Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Robert King, CEO, South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource
Lena Hansen, Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
Jeff Harris, Chief Transformation Officer, Northeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
Panel Discussion: Research on Intelligent Efficiency at University Energy Centers in Texas
Moderator: Ethan Rogers, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Juan Gomez, Interim Center Director, University of Texas, San Antonio, Sustainable Energy Institute
Dean Schneider, Director for Manufacturing Operations, Texas A&M University, Engineering Experiment Station
Brewster McCraken, President and CEO, Pecan Street, Inc.
Dave Claridge, Director of Energy System Laboratory, Texas A&M University, Engineering Experiment Station
Session 1A: Enabling the Virtual Power Plant
Moderators: Marc Collins, DNV GL and Raymond Kaiser, Amzur Technologies
Conrad Eustis, Portland General Electric Company
Matthew Bye, Trane (Ingersoll Rand)
Andrew Machado, Cadmus
Session 1B: The Opportunities and Realities of Home Energy Management Systems
Moderator: Claire Miziolek, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Kari Binley, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Claire Miziolek, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Bryan Urban, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems
Session 1C: How Good and Big is ICT-Enabled EM&V Going to Be?
Moderator: Pierre van der Merwe, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Chris Baker, Arizona Public Service
Tim Guiterman, EnergySavvy
Ethan Goldman, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Session 1D: Topical Discussion Group
Session 2A: Unlocking Near-Term Load Potential with ICT
Moderators: Marc Collins, DNV GL and Raymond Kaiser, Amzur Technologies
Charlie Richardson, Franklin Energy Services
Claire Miziolek, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Teja Kuruganti, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Session 2B: Using ICT in C&I Programs
Moderator: Richard Tonielli, Commonwealth Edison Company
Tanya Crenshaw, Cascade Energy
Stephen Brooks, Bonneville Power Administration
Virginia Hewitt, SparkFund
Steve Martin, Cascade Energy
Session 2C: Collection, Analysis and Visualization of Data
Moderator: Dan Brown, Cascade Energy
Courtney Weber, Chicago Bridge & Iron
Reshma Singh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Cohen, Center for Sustainable Energy
Session 2D: Integrating Electric, Gas, and Water Utility Goals
Moderator: Claude Godin, DNV GL
Jamie Peters, EnergySavvy
Laci Videmsky, Dropcountr
Jeff Perkins, ERS, Inc.
Trading Space I
Tim Guiterman, EnergySavvy
Margaret Hirl, Agilis Energy
Claire Miziolek, NEEP
Michael Seour, Verdant
Tuesday, December 6
Plenary Session: Intelligent Efficiency – It’s Different in Texas
Moderator: Alison Silverstein, Alison Silverstein Consulting
Kenan Ogelman, Electric Reliability Council of Texas
Tim Carter, MP2 Energy
Suzanne Bertin, Texas Advance Energy Business Alliance
Concurrent I: Building a Smarter City
Moderator: Alexandria McBride, ITI
Karl Popham, Austin Energy
Anna J. Siefken, Carnegie Mellon University
Josh Sperling, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Concurrent II: Utilizing Intelligent Efficiency to Achieve Environmental Goals
Moderator: Carmen Henrikson, TRC
Marina Badoian-Kriticos, Institute for Market Transformation
Brad Davis, Nest
Scott McClintock, FirstFuel
Alok Singh, Southern California Edison
Session 3A: Integrating Nanogrids and Micogrids into the Modern Grid
Moderators: Raymont Kaiser, Amzur Technologies and Marc Collins, DNV GL
Michael Starke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lisa Martin, Austin Energy
Kurt Roth, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems
Session 3B: Breaking Down Silos with Residential Tech
Moderator: Jamie Peters, EnergySavvy
Claude Godin, DNV GL
Garry Jones, Oncor Electric Delivery Company
Jamie Howland, Acadia Center
Session 3C: Emerging Technologies
Moderator: Andrew Machado, Cadmus
Jasmine Rivest, Efficiency Vermont
Trevor Terrill, Texas A&M University
Michael Serour, Verdant
Session 3D: New Approaches to ICT Protocols and Policies
Moderator: Andrew Stryker, DNV GL
Stephen Harper, Intel
Brad Jones, Cadmus
Trading Space II
Scott McClintock, FirstFuel
Mike Myser, ESP by Energy Platforms
Hal Nelson, Res-Intel Software
Danny Parker, University of Central Florida
Jamie Peters, EnergySavvy
Ethan Rogers, ACEEE
Luke Scheidler, Itron
Suzanne Watson, ACEEE
