PLMA Load Management Leadership Load Management Dialogue
PLMA Load Management Dialogue

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DERs in the New Energy Economy

Moderated by Joe Childs of Eaton and featuring
Peter Kelly-Detwiler of NorthBridge Energy Partners,
Rick Kornfeld of Kitu Systems,
Bob Manning of Avangrid, Tony Johnson of SCE,
and Ross Malme of Bowen Capital Advisors

Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET

Woods Mackenzie estimates the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025. This represents tens of millions of DERs entering the ecosystem across many DER asset classes including EV-to-grid and grid-to-EV charging and interconnection, smart solar inverters, energy storage, microgrids, and many other intelligent devices.

Together, these will create potentially billions of DER-to-grid transactions. One likely result will be the need for a new transaction infrastructure. Join our moderator, PLMA Secretary Joe Childs of Eaton, to explore what this infrastructure might be, its benefits, and challenges.


Download a PDF of the presentation slides


Report on the DER Market

As an additional resource, please see the report "The Growth of the DER Market" which was 
prepared for Kitu Systems by NorthBridge Energy  Partners. For more information about this report please contact Rick Kornfeld at [email protected] or Peter Kelly [email protected].

Click to download the report:
"The Growth of the DER Market"
 Click to download the
Power Systems Acronyms List

 

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Meet Our Featured Speakers:

Joe Childs, Eaton

Joe Childs

PLMA Secretary,
Eaton

Ross Malme

Ross Malme

Global Load Mgmt Co-Chair,
Bowen Capital Advisors

Peter Kelly-Detwiler, NorthBridge Energy Partners

Peter Kelly-Detwiler
PLMA Guest Speaker,

NorthBridge Energy Partners

Rick Kornfeld, Kitu Systems

Rick Kornfeld
PLMA Guest Speaker,
Kitu Systems, Inc.

 

Bob Manning, AvanGrid

Bob Manning
PLMA Guest Speaker,
UI: An Avangrid Company

 

Tony Johnson, SCE

Tony Johnson
PLMA Guest Speaker,
So Cal Edison

 

Peter Kelly-Detwiler

Meet Our Guest Speaker:

Peter Kelly-Detwiler

NorthBridge Energy Partners

Peter Kelly-Detwiler has 30 years of experience in the electric energy arena. He writes for Forbes.com and other publications on topics related to disruptive innovation and its impact on the electricity infrastructure.  He provides strategic advice to clients and investors, helping them to navigate this transitional period.

Mr. Kelly-Detwiler has spent much of his career in various areas of competitive power markets. As Senior Vice President at Constellation Energy, he oversaw creation of VirtuWatt – a market leading platform to facilitate real-time awareness of electricity pricing and consumption and bidding of assets into competitive markets.  He is currently writing a book on the global transformation of electric power markets.

Rick Kornfeld

Meet Our Guest Speaker:

Rick Kornfeld

Kitu Systems, Inc.

Rick has worked for some of the Southern California’s most notable tech companies, including M/A-Com Linkabit, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. Currently the President and CEO of Kitu Systems.

Previously, Rick was vice president and general manager of Texas Instruments’ Wireless Chipset Business Unit where he managed a $750MM business. He joined TI through their $475MM acquisition of Dot Wireless, where he was co-founder, chairman, and CEO. Prior to founding Dot Wireless, Rick was a founding member of NextWave Telecom, Inc., where he was the senior vice president and general manager of the Consumer Products division. Previously, Rick was vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, where he led the development of the world’s first commercial CDMA-based cellular phones. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rick held technical positions at M/A-Com Linkabit focusing on RF Systems for commercial and government customers.

Bob Manning

Meet Our Guest Speaker:

Bob Manning

UI: An Avangrid Company

Bob Manning is a Smart Grids Innovation & Planning Program Director at AVANGRID and has been with the company for more than 30 years. Throughout his career, he has held various positions in the areas of grid modernization, Distributed Generation, operations, planning and reliability. He is a member of IEEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of CT. He received his B. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA and an MBA degree from the University of New Haven, New Haven, CT.

Tony Johnson

Meet Our Guest Speaker:

Tony Johnson

CEO, So Cal Edison

Anthony Johnson is a Consulting Engineer in the Asset Management, Strategy, and Engineering Group in the Transmission and Distribution Business Unit of Southern California Edison Company (SCE).  He has been working at SCE for more than 29 years. Mr. Johnson is currently leading the development and implementation of SCE’s next-generation Grid Management System. He also provides technical expertise for the development of advanced technologies across the company. He has previously held positions as a responsible engineer, area engineer, test technician supervisor, and as a project manager.  He is also an active participant in IEEE Power System Relaying Committee and the Power System Communications and Cybersecurity Committee.

Mr. Johnson received his Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University in 1986, and MS in electrical engineering from Montana State University in 1988.  Mr. Johnson is a Senior Member of IEEE, and registered professional electrical engineer in the State of California.

Ross Malme

Meet Our Guest Speaker:

Ross Malme

Bowen Capital Advisors

Ross is Senior Advisor with Bowen Advisors, a Boston based investment banking firm where he co-manages the Energy Technology Practice. Previously he was a Partner with Skipping Stone, an energy consulting company, where he led the Skipping Stone Smart Grid and international practice focusing on exports of US Smart Grid technology primarily though US Trade and Development Agency, United Nations and work banking organizations. He has served on the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as well as Executive Committee of the Retail Gas Quadrant of the National Energy Standards Board (NAESB). Previously, Ross was Director of Schneider Electric's Demand Response Resource Center and prior to that Ross was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of RETX Energy Services Inc., a leading provider of application services and technology to the restructuring energy industry which was sold to Schneider Electric in 2008. Additionally, is the past Chairman of the Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA) from October of 2001 through 2005. Ross has served as an Operating Agent to the International Energy Agency (IEA) Demand Side Management (DSM) Program since 2004 where he led a multinational project call Demand Response Resources involving 12 IEA countries to rapidly deploy demand response to address local electricity market issues. Finally, Ross is the inventor of the first commercially successful wireless automatic meter reading (AMR) technology which was sold to Itron and became the standard of the utility industry for over two decades.

Who Should Attend. Utility and regulatory staff as well as other energy industry trade allies and organizations seeking thought leadership and insight on dynamic load management, including demand response and distributed energy resources.

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