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12 noon Conference
Convenes - Opening Keynote
Speaker
Xcel Energy's Colorado EE Plan and National Action Plan for EE
Deb Sundin, Director, Business Product Marketing, Xcel Energy, and Member of
Leadership Group for National Action Plan
for Energy Efficiency
Overview of Xcel Energy’s program activities and insight into national
efforts underway
Introduced by Dan Watson, Chief Executive Officer, SourceGas
Following Welcoming
Remarks by Jeff Rice, Utilities Efficiency Manager, Aspen Utilities
1:30
– 5:00 pm
Focus on Energy Efficiency
session
Co-chairs:
* Adam
Perry, LEED® AP, Energy Services Specialist, Platte River Power Authority
* Matthew Daunis, Manager - Energy Efficiency Programs, Aquila, Inc.
1:30-2:30 pm
Utility Program Snap Shots
Highlights of Colorado utility activities in energy efficiency presented
by the session co-chairs
and other conference participants
2:30-3:00 pm
Aquila’s Energy Efficiency Programs
Matthew Daunis, Manager -
Energy Efficiency Programs, Aquila
Overview of natural gas and
electric program developments in Colorado and natural gas energy efficiency
program success in Iowa
3:00-3:30pm
Refreshment Break
3:30-4:00pm
Promoting Energy Efficiency Without
Rebates
Bob Dickey, Manager, Marketing
and Economic Dev., Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative
Learn how one cooperative
aggressively promotes electric home heating as part of a comprehensive
residential utility marketing program. What makes this case study so
compelling is that the cooperative does not offer
member rebates.
4:00-4:30pm
Regional Utility Collaboration to Implement Market Transformation Energy
Efficiency Programs: When it Makes Sense,
How it Can Work, Problems to
Anticipate & Pitfalls to Avoid
Peter Feroli, Vice President, Applied Proactive Technologies,
and Brad Steele, President, Energy Federation
APT and EFI have worked
together for the past decade to help utility and energy efficiency provider
clients implement both utility specific, statewide, and regional programs to
promote greater market acceptance and saturation of a variety of energy
efficiency products and services. This session will focus on the types of
programs that make most sense for energy efficiency program providers to
implement collaboratively rather than individually. Topics covered will
include the benefits of working together, the pitfalls of not working
together, basic rules that all parties should follow and lessons learned
over the years. The speakers encourage group interaction to identify and
discuss areas of concern or address any questions that attendees have
regarding regional program implementation.
4:30-5pm
Holy Cross Energy
Cooperative Program Overview
Stephen B. Casey, Member Services Supervisor, Holy
Cross Energy
The purpose of my presentation will be to summarize programs
Holy Cross Energy has embraced to address Renewable Energy Generation,
Energy Conservation and Efficiency, and Green Pricing
opportunities for our consumers.
5:00 - 6:30 pm Networking Reception
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7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Breakout
Discussions
Join fellow attendees for facilitated
discussions around the breakfast table regarding the most relevant topics
that you chose during the previous evening’s networking reception with these
facilitators:
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Tom Dubos,
Business
Development Manager,
Apogee Interactive
* John Richards, Marathon Water Heaters
8:30am – 12 noon
Focus on Carbon Reduction
session
Co-chairs:
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Bill Ewer, Customer
Services & Marketing Manager, Longmont Power & Communications
* Jeff Rice, Utilities Efficiency Manager, Aspen Utilities
8:30-9:30 am
Utility Program Snap Shots
Highlights of Colorado utility activities in carbon reduction presented
by the session co-chairs
and other conference participants
9:30 – 10:00 am
Boulder County’s Carbon Reduction
Initiatives
Ann Livingston, Sustainability Coordinator, Boulder County, Colorado
Summary of what
Boulder County has done and its plans
going forward to reduce GHG emissions. Boulder County has completed a
greenhouse gas inventory that identifies the sources of greenhouse gases in
the county and projected rates of increase for GHG emissions based on
historical data. Boulder County has also adopted a Sustainability Initiative
and now has a working draft for Sustainable Energy Strategies to reduce GHG
emissions below 1990 levels by 2012.
10:00-10:30am
Refreshment Break
10:30-11:00 am
Colorado Green Building Initiatives and
Utility Partnership Opportunities, Panel Discussion
Jeff Rice, Utilities Efficiency Manager, Aspen Utilities
and Aspen Institute Representative
Discover the breadth of
green buildings intitiatives underway in Aspen particularly the very
conference center where we're meeting and the framework for the LEED
certification effort. Hear how utilities are partnering with builders
and developers.
11:00-11:30 am
Utility Best Practices for
Implementing Green Marketing Programs
Erich Landis, Sr. Vice President, WindStreet Energy
With your commercial business and residential utility customers becoming
increasingly interested in green power, learn how others are branding,
targeting and driving sign-ups in their territories. And how they are
planning to supply renewables.
11:30am – 12 noon
Earth Energy and
GSHP Systems: What
Utilities Need to Know
Richard Sallee, Director of Business
Development - Demand Side, ClimateMaster and Terry Proffer, Major Geothermal
Overview of the technology that
heats and cools the Aspen Institute’s own building and hundreds of other
residential, commercial and government building across Colorado. Key success
factors for utility-contractor partnership that promote this space
conditioning alternative.
12 noon
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1:30pm
Mid-point Keynote
Presentation with lunch served
Natural Gas Role in
Carbon Reduction
Len Mize, Director Corporate Communications, SourceGas (formerly Kinder Morgan)
Hear how the senior executive at a
privately-owned natural gas utility is working in Colorado and neighboring
states to balance the sometimes competing interests of supply conservation
goals and shareholder value expectations.
Introduced by Mark
McGahey, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
1:30 – 5:00 pm
Focus on Demand Response
session
Chair:
*
Kevin Cooney, CEO, Summit Blue Consulting
1:30-2:00 pm Utility Program Snap Shots
Highlights of Colorado utility
activities in demand response presented by the session
co-chairs and other conference
participants
2:00-2:30pm Gridwise Appliance Load
Management Initiative: An Industry Partnership
Dr. Don
Hammerstrom,Ph.D., Project Manager, Pacific Northwest Laboratory with
Gale Horst, Lead Engineer, Corporate Innovation Technology, Whirlpool
Corporation
Learn about a
jointly-managed demonstration project being conducted by Pacific Northwest
Labs, Bonneville Power Administration and others with products provided by
Whirlpool.
Discover key success factors in creating such industry partnerships.
2:30-3:00 pm
Two Decades of Load
Control Program Experience
Tom Holt, Member Services and
Marketing Manager, East River Electric
Cooperative
Understand how the East River
member cooperatives' load management system has been operating for over 22
years and has saved almost $90 million in avoided wholesale power costs.
Over 60,000 different electric loads in homes, farms and businesses of
member consumers throughout eastern
South Dakota and western Minnesota are
connected to the system. These loads include electric water heaters, air
conditioners, irrigation systems and large industrial processes.
3:00 –
3:30pm Refreshment Break
3:30-4:00 pm Irrigation Efficiency Programs
Ron Rose, C.E.M. Industrial Business Account Consultant,
Nebraska Public Power District
Learn how
Nebraska electrical utilities are implementing demand response and energy
efficiency programs for irrigation systems.
4:00-4:30pm
Smart Energy Living, Home
Performance with ENERGY STAR and Other Opportunities for Utilities
Patrick Keegan, Executive Director, Colorado Energy Science Center
Discover how Colorado
Energy Science Center partners with Xcel Energy, Colorado Springs Utilities,
Fort Collins Utilities and others design and deliver home energy
efficiency initiatives such as ENERGY STAR for new homes, School programs,
Home Energy Makeover contests, workshops, etc.
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Contractor Sales Tools That Increase Home Energy Efficiency Program Results
Bruce
Matulich, Executive Director, Electric & Gas Industries Association
Rebates may encourage
homeowners to adopt single measures, but specially-designed financing
programs are central to the leading home energy
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Networking
Reception at Belly-Up Tavern in downtown Aspen
7:30-8:30am
Breakfast Buffet in Meadows Restaurant with
Breakout Discussions
Join fellow attendees for facilitated
discussions around the breakfast table regarding the most relevant topics
that you chose during the previous evening’s networking reception with these
facilitators:
* Peter Feroli,
Vice President,
Applied
Proactive Technologies
*
Ron Horstman, Energy
Services Manager, Western
Area Power Administration
Focus on Non-Energy Benefits
session
Chair:
* Dave Munk, Program Manager, Resource
Action Programs
8:30-9:00 am Utility Program Snap
Shots
Highlights of Colorado utility activities
in water efficiency and customer service presented by the session chairs and
other conference participants
9:00-9:30am
Working with the Water Utilities to Achieve Energy & Demand Response
Goals
Kevin Cooney, CEO, Summit Blue Consulting
The embedded energy in
delivered water provides a unique opportunity to integrate water savings
into energy efficiency program efforts. Learn
about a recent American
Water Works Research Foundation project investigated the risk and benefits
of various energy management strategies at
water and wastewater treatment
facilities. A triple bottom line approach that considers reliability,
financial, and environmental risks was considered for
each case study
developed with utilities in several states. This talk will summarize energy
management strategies for both power supply (backup
power, rate options, and
others) and energy demand (water conservation programs to pump scheduling)
for delivering safe water while optimizing the
financial benefits of energy
management.
9:30-10:00am
Make it Real for
your Customers--What's in it for Them?
Tom DuBos, Business
Development Manager, Apogee Interactive
You can increase program participation by engaging your customers and
showing them the benefits of efficiency. Simple tools can quantify and
demonstrate the savings potential and environmental impact of their actions.
See how online interactive applications can help you promote your efficiency
portfolio while increasing customer satisfaction.
10:00 – 10:30 am
Refreshment Break
10:30 – 11:00 am A
Texas Perspective
Price Robertson, Energy Efficiency Programs Manager, Oncor Electric Delivery
(formerly Texas Utilities)
with Glenn Garland, ClearResult
Discussion of best practices from Texas utilities in energy efficiency as
well as specific program vertical market sectors such as Commercial and
Industrial and market transformation programs
11:00 – 11:30 am
Innovative Rate Design Lets Customers
Choose
Mutch Usera, Director,
Community Connections & Retail Marketing, Black Hills Power
Black Hills Power offers an innovative
“residential demand service” rate for customers that use an average of 1,200
kilowatt-hours (kWh) or more per month. In addition, customers may purchase
a whole house Demand Controller that cycles major appliances to assure that
the home’s energy use doesn’t exceed set levels during peak energy
conditions. Customers on the demand rate appear to be saving up to 30%
annually as compared to those on the standard utility rate, and 15%-20%
annually as compared to those on the electric heat rate.
11:30 a.m. – 12 noon Developing Marketing
Communications Materials that Motivate Homeowners to Embrace Efficiency,
Demand
Response and Renewable Energy Programs
Ed Thomas and Katherine Johnson, Partners, Market Development Group
Homeowners are a critical target
market whose actions can generate long-term dividends for energy/water
efficiency, demand response and renewable energy programs. Learn how to
leverage channel partners such as remodelers, HVAC installers, plumbers and
others who are key influencers in homeowner decision-making.
12 noon - 12:30 pm
Closing Keynote
Presentation
Promoting Renewal Energy Generation in Rural Communities
Georg Shultz, Director, Electric Staff Division, USDA Rural Development
Learn the guidelines for grant and
loan fund from USDA for projects in rural communities that promote renewable
energy supply
Introduced by Linda Swails, Energy Services, Western Area
Power Administration
12:30 pm Conference Adjourns
12:30pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Buffet in Meadows
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