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
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
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
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
John Miri
President and Founder of Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance
Dax Streater
Chief Information Security Officer at LCRA
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
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
Kristen Senechal
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at LCRA
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
Trisha Elizondo
CEO of Energy Renewal Partners
Claudia Morrow
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Vistra Corp
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!
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