Explore How the Utilities can Help you Speed your Energy Efficiency and DR Idea to Market
Sponsored by Sempra Utilities and the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
at UCSD, San Diego
If you have a new energy efficiency or DR technology then SDG&E, SCE, SoCal Gas, PG&E and SMUD can help you bring your product to market and access incentives.
This TRIO Symposium is brought to you by the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council (ETCC) sponsored by the California utilities, California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission.
This program has received high marks from attendees when presented in Santa Barbara and Berkeley. Symposium participants will learn:
- How regulatory drivers such as loading order and decoupling are important to entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers.
- How to use utility programs and incentives to drive market adoption and sales.
- How the Emerging Technologies (ET) program supports the introduction of new technologies.
- How to meet data requirements for ET assessments.
- How to work with approved 3rd party implementors to install new technologies.
- How to leverage existing energy efficiency partnerships universities, national labs, energy utilities, and the investment community.
- How investors can use utility company resources to assess opportunities.
The Technology Resource Incubator Outreach (TRIO) Symposium is a statewide initiative by the members of the ETCC designed to accelerate market introduction of energy efficient products and services by providing information, training, and access to energy utility resources. TRIO’s goal is to promote early stage innovations that will contribute to California’s energy savings targets for the future, as well as meeting national goals for energy efficiency.
This free event is a must attend for key stakeholders including entrepreneurs, investors, technology transfer officers, researchers, and other professionals who are creating the future for intelligent use of cost-effective energy efficient technologies in California.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Calit2 Institute at UC San Diego in Atkinson Hall
(Please follow this link for directions to Calit2 at UCSD.)
Previous TRIO events were oversubscribed. We reserve the right to limit attendance to one representative from each organization. We reserve the right to limit attendance to energy efficiency related organizations.
Agenda:
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8:30 AM |
Registration and Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
Welcoming Address |
• Welcome and recognition of organizing entities |
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Speakers: Larry Smarr - Founding Director, Calit2 Harry E. Gruber - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD Ahmed Abdullah - Emerging Technologies Program Manager, SoCalGas and SDG&E
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9:15 AM |
TRIO Program |
• How utilities work in California, the drivers for EE & DR. • Description of TRIO program. • Discussion of importance of emerging technologies. |
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Speakers: Ahmed Abdullah, Emerging Technologies Program Manager, SoCalGas and SDG&E Robyn Zander, Manager Contract Support Services, Customer Energy Efficiency & Solar, SCE
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09:45 AM |
SDG&E Customer Programs |
• Description of program types and how innovators can get their products into EE/DR programs at SDG&E |
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Speakers: Mark Gaines - Director Customer Programs, SDG&E and SCG George Katsufrakis - Manager in Customer Programs, SDG&E
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10:15 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:45 PM |
Emerging Technologies |
• How do the RD&D, ET and Equity Programs work? • How to get the utilities interested in my product? • What information do I provide to the utilities? • How can the utilities help my product gain market acceptance? |
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Speakers: Paul Fox (Moderator) - CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund Randy Wong - Emerging Technologies Program Manager, PG&E Jeff Reed – Director of Emerging Technologies, SDG&E Alex Kim – Director of Customer Innovations, SDG&E Edwin Hornquist - Emerging Technologies Program Manager, SCE
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12:00 AM |
Networking Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
Innovators Panel |
• Entrepreneurs and investors discuss their experiences working with utilities. |
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Speakers: Susan Preston (Moderator) - General Partner, CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund Companies to be announced
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2:00 PM |
Third Party Programs & Solicitations |
• How third parties work with utilities and can support the introduction of new technologies • Experienced third party contractors discuss their experiences working with utilities and new technologies |
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Speakers: George Katsufrakis (Moderator) - Manager Customer Programs, SDG&E Robyn Zander - Manager Contract Support Services, Customer Energy Efficiency & Solar, SCE Companies to be Announced
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3:15 PM |
Closing Remarks |
• Your opportunity to ask questions of any of the presenters from the day |
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Speakers: Abdullah Ahmed (Moderator) - Emerging Technologies Program Manager, SoCalGas and SDG&E All prior panelists
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3:45 PM |
Hi-Def Video (15 min) and Optional Tour of UCSD Calit2 Facility |
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4:00 to 5:00 PM |
Networking Reception |
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