Resource Materials For:DERs in the New Energy EconomyModerated by Joe Childs of Eaton and featuring Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 12:30 to 1:30 pm ETWoods 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. Download a PDF of the presentation slides
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Joe ChildsPLMA Secretary,
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Ross MalmeGlobal Load Mgmt Co-Chair,
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Peter Kelly-Detwiler NorthBridge Energy Partners |
Rick Kornfeld |
Bob Manning |
Tony Johnson |
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Meet Our Guest Speaker: Peter Kelly-DetwilerNorthBridge Energy PartnersPeter 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. |
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Meet Our Guest Speaker: Rick KornfeldKitu 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. |
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Meet Our Guest Speaker: Bob ManningUI: An Avangrid CompanyBob 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. |
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Meet Our Guest Speaker: Tony JohnsonCEO, So Cal EdisonAnthony 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. |
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Meet Our Guest Speaker: Ross MalmeBowen Capital AdvisorsRoss 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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