Smart Grid SIG

WCA Smart Grid SIG presents: Home Energy Management in the Smart Grid World

May 4th 2010 -- 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Registration & Networking starts 3:30pm, Event from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto CA

Home Energy bills are expected to increase with Time-Of-Use billing, unless consumers take steps to reduce energy usage during "peak" use times -- normally between noon and 6pm in the summer. TOU Billing is still an option to PG&E customers. The current prohibition on default Time-Of-Use billing for residential customers expires on January 1st 2016, and meanwhile California energy providers are authorized to offer optional TOU billing and demand response programs to residential consumers. Now that the CPUC has ruled that the major California utilities must give the consumer access to their usage data in near real time by 2012, the business opportunities to sell wireless Home Energy Management (HEM) devices, systems, and services are creating intense excitement and rapid innovation.

Join this distinguished panel of experts and innovators to learn what the HEM architecture of the next three years will look like. The topics to be addressed include:

How will power monitors, switches, controllers, displays, and Home Area Network (HAN) devices interact with each other, with service provider web portals, and with the Home Energy Gateway to the AMI infrastructure?
How will energy consumption, pricing, and load control or demand response data be made available to the consumer?
What devices and services might the utilities offer to enhance HEM?
What choices for energy management partners or service providers will this present for the consumer?
What are the privacy implications of devices that could monitor and report on our energy usage?

-- Moderator: Vito Longo, Technology Editor, Transmission & Distribution World
-- James Dempsey, Vice President for Public Policy, Center for Democracy & Technology
-- Paul Nagel, Vice President of Strategic Development, Control4 Energy Systems
-- Ted Reguly, Director of Smart Meter Program Office, SDG&E
-- Raj Vaswani, CTO, Silver Spring Networks

Please plan to join us on Tuesday May 4th for what promises to be an interesting and informative event. Seating at this event is limited! Register now for this exciting event!!

Early-bird: $10 before 25-Apr-2010
Late-reg: $15 before 04-May-2010
At-the-door: $20 (Cash-only please)

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May 2010 : WCA Smart Grid SIG
Home Energy Management in the Smart Grid World
-- Moderator: Vito Longo, Technology Editor, Transmission & Distribution World
-- James Dempsey, Vice President for Public Policy, Center for Democracy & Technology
-- Paul Nagel, Vice President of Strategic Development, Control4 Energy Systems
-- Ted Reguly, Director of Smart Meter Program Office, SDG&E
-- Raj Vaswani, CTO, Silver Spring Networks
Photos & writeup by D.J. Cline

January 2010 : WCA Smart Grid SIG
Smart Grid Evolution -- 2010 and Beyond
-- Moderator: TJ Glauthier, President, TJG Energy Associates LLC
-- Andy Balaschak, Dir. Product Management, Tropos - Presentation
-- Rob Conant, VP of Infrastructure Development, Trilliant - Presentation
-- Bob Friday, Dir. Strategic Initiatives, WNBU, Cisco - Presentation
-- Nada Golmie, Group Leader, Emerging and Mobile Network Technologies, NIST - Presentation
-- Aloke Gupta, Senior Energy Analyst, CPUC - Presentation
-- Robert Gustin, Industry Solutions Manager Utilities, Sprint Nextel - Presentation
-- Michael Wojcik, Manager, Enterprise Data Solutions, Verizon Wireless - Presentation
-- Seppo Yrjola, Principal Innovator, CTO unit, Nokia Siemens Networks - Presentation

Silicon Valley and Northern California are rich in technology companies active in smart grid developments. We, all, have a stake in how these changes come about. The WCA Smart Grid SIG gives us the opportunity to network, discuss, and learn about the issues that affect our region, in particular, as well as nationally and internationally.

The WCA Smart Grid SIG is a neutral, unbiased forum for education, networking and exchange of smart grid knowledge, so you can hear all the perspectives - utilities, regulators, service providers, telecom... - and have a chance to debate the different sides of this complex industry. Through such interactions we aim to clarify and expose opportunities for collaborations or innovative business ideas.

The WCA Smart Grid SIG events spotlight presentations by experts and leaders from around the world on a wide spectrum of topics including: the technical and marketing aspects of smart grid products and services, regulatory issues, standards, and investor-driven market analysis.

Attendees have ready access to these global experts at convenient, local venues.

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