RENEWABLES +SMART GRID
Day 3 Leadership Summits: September 19, 2007

Who: Leading utility executives and grid operators, university and laboratory researchers,  state program leaders, and key industry vendors as we explore the best and brightest research, development and deployment around renewables and grid management.  

Where & When:  Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington

                              September 19, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

What:  State and Federal efforts are clamoring for more renewables into the grid.  But there remain policy and technology challenges to integrating these resources.  This effort focuses attention on the leading research, development and deployment going on around the globe, identifying new promise, where the gaps remain, and how we might close them.

Registration--8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m

Welcome Remarks--8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m

State of the Union in Renewables + Smart Grid
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 

Where are some of the most pioneering advances in renewables integration, grid management and system interoperability actually at work in the field? Where are we getting it right on the planning and operations side? Explore some of the best examples of deployments addressing renewables + Smart grid.

PIER California Energy Comission, Gerry Braun
Detroit Edison, Hawk Asgeirsson, Supervising Engineer of Distributed Resourc Planning
Austin Energy, John Baker, Chief Strategy Officer
Milsoft Utility Solutions, Steve Collier

Networking Break--10:15 a.m. –10:30 a.m.

Industry R&D Roadmap
10:30 a.m. –11:45 a.m.

What is the current R&D roadmap driving the public and private sector R&D community, and how will these agendas move the grid and renewables transformation? Updates from major R&D efforts will explore what major renewables+ grid functions at both a transmission and distribution levels we can expect to see addressed.
Gridwise Council, Alison Silverstein (Moderator)
PIER and California Energy Comission, Merwin Brown,Director of Transmission Research
Modern Grid Initiative, NETL, Steve Pullins
Bonnevile Power Authority, Terry Oliver, Chief Technology Innovation Officer

Lunch--11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. 

Renewables + Smart Grid R&D Policy Landscape
12:15 p.m. – 1:415 p.m. 

A significant number of the renewables + grid issues are policy related.  Where is the policy vision that will chart a path for market integration around the innovations generated through the R&D process?  Hear from leading regulators shaping the market and how they see the policy landscape going forward.     
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Rob Pratt, Staff Scientist and Manager of Gridwise Activities
Gridwise Council, Alison Silverstein
Snohomish County PUD, Jessica Wilcox, Government Affairs

Working Together to Advance the Cause
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Where are the real opportunities for collaboration?  Presentations of proposed initiatives, punctuated by interactive roundtable discussions ensure that we generate valuable insights, build stronger relationships, and come away with an improved agenda for success in our own institutions and the industry as a whole. 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory- Carl Imhoff, Product Line Manager, Energy Products

Closing Comments-- 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m