Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Empowering Consumers, Reinventing Infrastructure

The impact of microgrids, energy storage and other disruptive technologies

8:45 – 9:30	Keynote Jeff Fleeman, Director of Advanced Transmission Studies and Technologies, American Electric Power
9:30 – 10:15	Speaker Brewster McCracken, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pecan Street Inc
10:15 – 11:00	Speaker “Rechargeable Batteries Old and New” John Goodenough, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin • Click to view PDF slides Back to top of page
11:15 – 12:30	How Smartgrids Enable Consumers 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 Back to top of page
12:30 – 2:00	Lunch – Keynote Rebecca Klein, Chair, Power Across Texas; former Chair, Public Utility Commission of Texas • Click to view PDF slides. Back to top of page
2:00 – 2:45	Speaker Edward Buck, Specialist Engineer EATON Corp Back to top of page
2:45 – 3:30	Speaker Lance Spross, Director, Engineering Standards and Maintenance Strategy, Oncor • Click to view PDF slides Back to top of page
3:45 – 5:00	Policy implications of increasing energy storage on the grid 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 Back to top of page
Evening Sessions and Events
5:15 – 6:00	UT Power Plant Tour 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.
6:30	Banquet and presentation of awards for energy startup competition and research poster competition Back to top of page
Other Energy Week Events
All day Continuing Legal Education Seminar: Renewable Energy Law (Day 2)
Energy Technology Open Competition Start-up competition pitches presented in the Alumni Center Legends Room and San Jacinto Meeting Room 208. Winners announced at the Energy Week Banquet. Back to top of page