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Registration • Breakfast
Welcome
Customer Expectations
Elaina Ball•Sarah Chatterjee•Tammy Cooper•Laura Schepis•DeAnna Hardwick

Surveying customer priorities. Recent customer surveys have provided surprising results on priorities for generation resources. CPS Energy and Austin Energy will talk about the similarities and differences in their customer base requests.

  • Elaina Ball (Chief Strategy Officer at CPS Energy)

    Elaina Ball

    Chief Strategy Officer at CPS Energy
  • Sarah Chatterjee (Director for Electrification Strategy and Programs of Electric Power Engineers)

    Sarah Chatterjee

    Director for Electrification Strategy and Programs of Electric Power Engineers
  • Tammy Cooper (Deputy General Manager of Regulatory, Communications, Compliance & Legal Services at Austin Energy)

    Tammy Cooper

    Deputy General Manager of Regulatory, Communications, Compliance & Legal Services at Austin Energy
  • Laura Schepis (CEA at Jacksonville Electric Authority)

    Laura Schepis

    CEA at Jacksonville Electric Authority
  • DeAnna Hardwick (Chief Customer Strategy Officer at CPS Energy)

    DeAnna Hardwick

    Chief Customer Strategy Officer at CPS Energy
Managing Load
Wendy Gumb•Cheryl Mele•Johnathan Tijerina

Hear a discussion of how load management options are being used, or planned, to help balance supply and demand of electricity on the grid by reducing or shifting electricity use during periods of high demand to prevent overloading the grid or high prices to ensure that there is enough electricity to meet the needs of all customers, optimize investments in utility grid or generation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced during peak demand periods.

  • Wendy Gumb (Microgrid Solutions Program Director of Schneider Electric North America)

    Wendy Gumb

    Microgrid Solutions Program Director of Schneider Electric North America
  • Cheryl Mele (VP Customer Care at El Paso Electric)

    Cheryl Mele

    VP Customer Care at El Paso Electric
  • JT

    Johnathan Tijerina

    El Paso Electric
Break
Keynote Speaker
Barbara Sugg
  • Barbara Sugg (President and Chief Executive Officer at Southwest Power Pool)

    Barbara Sugg

    President and Chief Executive Officer at Southwest Power Pool
Lunch Served
Presentation on the History and Transition of the Seaholm and Holly Street Power Plants
Break
Cyber Security
Ann Delenela•John Miri•Dax Streater•Drew Bonser

Cyber security is more important today than it ever has been. With new generation comes new challenges and new risks. Our cyber security experts will talk about how they are identifying and dealing with the challenges.

  • Ann Delenela (Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Entergy)

    Ann Delenela

    Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Entergy
  • John Miri (President and Founder of Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance)

    John Miri

    President and Founder of Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance
  • Dax Streater (Chief Information Security Officer at LCRA)

    Dax Streater

    Chief Information Security Officer at LCRA
  • Drew Bonser (Director, Cyber Security of ERCOT)

    Drew Bonser

    Director, Cyber Security of ERCOT
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Beth Massey
  • Dr. Beth Massey (Director of Data Dynamics and Strategic Innovations at The Energy Authority)

    Dr. Beth Massey

    Director of Data Dynamics and Strategic Innovations at The Energy Authority
Break
Interconnection
Tejaswi Potluri•Kristen Senechal•Steve Bye

Status of the grid and interconnection challenges. Incorporating intermittent energy, the connection of distributed energy resources, and energy storage resources. Our panel will discuss how they are working through these difficulties.

  • Tejaswi Potluri (Supervisor Grid Technology at ERCOT)

    Tejaswi Potluri

    Supervisor Grid Technology at ERCOT
  • Kristen Senechal (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at LCRA)

    Kristen Senechal

    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at LCRA
  • Steve Bye (Senior Engineering Manager at Electric Power Engineers)

    Steve Bye

    Senior Engineering Manager at Electric Power Engineers
Energy Market-Investment Evaluations and Change
Becky Diffen•Trisha Elizondo•Claudia Morrow•Jeff Neves

There doesn’t seem to be a limit to investors looking to get into the energy market, but they are looking at transactions differently than they have in the past. Our panel will review lessons learned and trends they see going into the future on investments in the energy sector.

Moderator: Trisha Elizondo

  • Becky Diffen (Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright)

    Becky Diffen

    Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Trisha Elizondo (CEO of Energy Renewal Partners)

    Trisha Elizondo

    CEO of Energy Renewal Partners
  • Claudia Morrow (Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Vistra Corp)

    Claudia Morrow

    Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Vistra Corp
  • Jeff Neves (Director of Renewable Business Development at Deriva Energy)

    Jeff Neves

    Director of Renewable Business Development at Deriva Energy
Networking Happy Hour

Located within the Art Gallery of the Austin Central Library. Drinks and snacks will be provided!