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Grid Resilience

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
8:30am to 12:15pm
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Power Markets and Innovation 101: How They Work and What's Next

Tutorial

This tutorial is now full. Space may become available, so please plan to arrive early on Tuesday, October 16, to join a queue for available seats.

This four-hour course will explain the fundamentals of how power markets work, the changes that have taken place in the past decade, and the revolutionary change that is about to occur. We will cover:


1. The fundamentals of how power is generated and dispatched
2. Who does what in the new world (utilities, regulators, entrepreneurs, and interactive consumers)
3. Factors driving technological change and the critical role of information technology
4. The key technologies - including wind, solar, storage, and other distributed energy resources
5. Emerging winners and losers
6. Business models, and global trends, including carbon, financial trends and national economic development policies
7. Regulatory models and experiences worth examining (including New York, California, Texas, Australia, China, and Germany
8. Implications for the future and potential outcomes
9. The challenge for planners and investors, and options for creating potential no-regrets strategies in an increasingly volatile market 

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  • Renewables Procurement
  • Buildings & Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience
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Speakers

  • Peter Kelly-Detwiler

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
8:00am to 12:15pm
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Microgrid Summit

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The Microgrid Summit is a half-day, invitation-only working session convening 100 key stakeholders to focus on how to accelerate the deployment of clean, grid-connected microgrids.

Refer to our Microgrid Summit page  for more information and to request an invitation. 

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  • Buildings & Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience
  • Invitation Only

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8:30am to 9:30am
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Next-Gen Infrastructure: The Transition to a Distributed, Digital World

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A wave of automation driven by commercial drones, artificial intelligence and the internet of things is sweeping across power plants, water districts and the power grid. This discussion will examine how digital technologies are reshaping the electric grid and water distribution systems, and how that makeover could affect cost, reliability and sustainability. 

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  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Susan Gladwin
  • Sean Parham
  • Mike Haley
  • Devra Schwartz
  • Christy Riccardi

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9:45am to 10:45am
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Lessons from Ground Zero: Energy Recovery and Resilience

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How we can modernize the power grid in a timely, equitable and affordable manner to get ahead of the next round of natural disasters. This session will provide perspectives from a utility regulator, a Naval Facilities leader, a city infrastructure expert and a utility leader. 

Tracks

  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Chairman Haque
  • HG Chissell
  • Shaun Hoyte
  • Ke Wei

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11:15am to 12:15pm
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Will Blockchain Technologies Disrupt Energy Markets?

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Large companies, utilities and startups have invested significant funding and resources to investigate ways blockchain technologies could disrupt traditional energy distribution models and services. This session will explore real-world blockchain deployments across regulated and non-regulated markets focused on applications including transactive energy, supply traceability and other use cases.

Tracks

  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Peter Kelly-Detwiler
  • Michael D'Aurizio
  • Lydia Krefta
  • Neil Gerber

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12:30pm to 1:15pm
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Guru Lunch: How Do We Make Saving Electrons Sexy?

Lunch

You already know that one of the best ways your organization can reduce its impact on the environment is to reduce your energy use — via energy efficiency and renewables. The good news is, consumers, customers, employees and others expect the companies they buy from or work for to do right by the planet — and they expect you to use clean energy as a major piece of that effort. The bad news is, packaging up a sexy, compelling story about energy consumption reduction is hard. So what's the best way to tell that story?  This Guru Lunch will be facilitated by Suzanne Shelton, President and CEO of Shelton Group, the nation's leading marketing and communications focused exclusively in energy and the environment.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

Tracks

  • Renewables Procurement
  • Buildings & Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Suzanne Shelton

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Guru Lunch: Can Buildings Solve the 'Duck Curve?'

Lunch

In commercial-scale electricity generation, the 'duck curve' is a graph of power production over the course of a day that shows the timing imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production. In many energy markets the peak demand occurs after sunset, when solar power is no longer available. As renewable electricity becomes more and more plentiful at midday, what strategies could to be considered next to solve the daily generation/consumption mismatch, and what are the next challenges coming after we solve the duck curve problem? Join David Kaneda, Principal and Thought Leader at Integral Group, in this substantive, solutions-oriented lunch discussion.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

Tracks

  • Buildings & Efficiency
  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • David Kaneda

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Guru Lunch: AI for Utilities — The Emergence of the Neural Grid

Lunch

This discussion will focus on how utilities must adapt to the concept of a "neural grid" — where real-time analytics, distributed generation and artificial intelligence (AI) combine to deliver the next generation power grid. Join Noah Goldstein, Director, Energy at Navigant, to talk about how the reality of the neural grid could diverge from the concept, what is accelerating its arrival, and what is going to slow down adoption of the neural grid.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants.

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  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Noah Goldstein

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Guru Lunch: Innovative Solutions to Accelerate Grid-Scale Renewables Integration

Lunch

As increased renewable energy is integrated into the grid, there is increasing importance in the use of energy storage, demand response, efficient market design and advanced control technologies. Join Tim Allen, Senior Director, Energy Storage & Business Development at Sempra Renewables, in an exploration of the solutions enabling more seamless and cost-effective renewables integration and the grid investments that are necessary to increase clean energy sources while maintaining reliable and affordable power.

About VERGE Guru Lunches: Join like minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each table discussion will be led by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. 

Tracks

  • Renewables Procurement
  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Tim Allen

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Thursday, October 18th, 2018
8:30am to 9:30am
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Pathways to Accelerating Decarbonization

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Which are more effective: ambitious strategies that prioritize a carbon-free future vs. those that create low-carbon transition paths? Some policymakers promote a 100 percent renewable vision while others believe there needs to be a better bridge to the future, one that embraces low-carbon options such as nuclear power, natural gas and hydrogen. Perspectives from utilities, cities and the corporate world.

Tracks

  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Aakash Chandarana
  • Diane Moss
  • Ken Colburn
  • Colleen Regan

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Building the Microgrid of the Future with Next-Gen Technologies

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Recent technology advancements have paved the path for clean, resilient microgrids across a range of applications. This session will explore distributed energy resources deployments including fuel cell, energy storage and renewable technologies that are being integrated to create microgrids for entire corporate campuses or portions of cities. Our panelists will discuss the economic, reliability and sustainability benefits of embracing these technologies as well as the challenges in the accelerating growth of  microgrids. This session will tie into the half-day, invitation-only Microgrid Summit being hosted at the VERGE conference.

Tracks

  • Distributed Energy & Storage
  • Grid Resilience

Speakers

  • Peter Asmus
  • Asim Hussain
  • Lonnie Mattison
  • Alicia Benson

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