Women in DR Quarterly Call:
Winter Demand Response

Marie-Andrée Leduc, IREQ is a researcher at Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec - IREQ since 2005. She has been involved in several energy management and alternative energy projects but her main area of interest is demand response. Her work in this field includes building simulation and experimental testing of demand response strategies and characterization of demand reduction at the individual customer and electric grid levels. She has a MS in Energy Science and Materials from INRS and a BIng in Mechanical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Peter Steele-Mosey, Navigant Consulting will focus on the findings of two winter residential direct load control evaluations: Puget Sound Energy’s Residential Direct Load Control Pilot and Duke Energy Progress’ EnergyWise Home Program. Each program will be briefly summarized, the estimated impacts presented and the most significant lessons learned discussed. Peter Steele-Mosey is a Managing Consultant with Navigant Consulting and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Elisabeth Morgera, National Grid is a senior analyst and serves as the Demand Response Coordinator for the Smart Energy Solutions Program at National Grid. This program provides approximately 15,000 participating residential and small commercial customers in Worcester, Mass. near-real time energy usage, as well as opportunities to manage their energy usage and reduce their monthly bill. In this role, she is responsible for monitoring the ISO-NE energy markets to identify the need to call peak load events, initiate the necessary events, ensure all communication protocols are followed, monitor the event progression and then analyze and report on the events upon completion.

Elizabeth Lewis, EnerNOC will discuss some of the differences between managing demand response programs in the summer versus the winter, and how these differences are taken into account when assessing customer participation and portfolio strategy. Liz is the Data Analytics Team Lead at EnerNOC and has been involved with EnerNOC's participation in demand response since 2010, focusing mainly on measurement and verification and market strategy. Liz's team calculates performance for over 35 utility and grid operator DR programs worldwide and provides analysis supporting DR portfolio management, program design, financial reporting, and other strategic initiatives.

Robin Maslowski is an Associate Director with Navigant Consulting, Inc. Sheprovides expertise in the areas of demand response and smart grid, including cost-benefit assessment, strategic planning, program evaluation, and potential assessment. Her recent work includes determining market potential and implementation strategies for demand response resources, developing business cases for smart grid deployment, building customized analytical modeling tools, and identifying key areas of opportunity for market growth, such as the integration of renewables using demand response and smart grid technologies.