Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Empowering Consumers, Reinventing Infrastructure
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Keynote
8:45 – 9:30
Keynote Speaker
Jeff Fleeman, Director of Advanced Transmission Studies and Technologies, American Electric Power
Speaker
9:30 – 10:15
Brewster McCracken, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pecan Street Inc
Rechargeable Batteries Old and New
10:15 – 11:00
John Goodenough, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
How Smartgrids Enable Consumers
11:15 – 12:30
Moderator: Kurt Stogdill, Distributed Energy Services Group, Austin Energy
Featured Panelists:
- Paul Wattles, Senior Market Design Analyst, ERCOT • Click to view PDF slides
- Bernardo Mendez, Product Manager, Active Power • Click to view PDF slides
- Emmanuel Monnerie, Landis Gyr • Click to view PDF slides
- Anna Lising, Opower • Click to view PDF slides
Lunch Keynote
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch Keynote Speaker
Rebecca Klein, Chair, Power Across Texas; former Chair, Public Utility Commission of Texas
Speaker
2:00 – 2:45
Edward Buck, Specialist Engineer EATON Corp
Speaker
2:45 – 3:30
Lance Spross, Director, Engineering Standards and Maintenance Strategy, Oncor
Policy implications of increasing energy storage on the grid
3:45 – 5:00
Moderator: Paul Hudson, Managing Partner, Stratus Energy Group; former Chair, Texas Public Utilities Commission
Featured Panelists:
- Darren Hammell, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Princeton Power Systems • Click to view PDF slides
- Matt Roberts, Executive Director, Energy Storage Association
- Evan Ture, Senior Sales Application Engineer, Younicos Inc
- Bob King, President of Good Company Associates • Click to view PDF slides
UT Power Plant Tour
5:15 – 6:00
UT’s Austin campus generates its own electricity in one of the most efficient combined heat and power plants in the US and distributes it on campus via the nation’s largest microgrid.
Banquet and Awards
6:30
Banquet and presentation of awards for energy startup competition and research poster competition.