Demand Response R&D Symposium Agenda
November 30, 2004

Formal Presentations - (9:00 a.m. to noon, Secretary of State Auditorium)

9:00 a.m. Introductions and Opening Remarks

• Laurie ten Hope, Energy Systems Integration, PIER Program Area Lead (Welcome and Overview of Presentations)
• Joseph Desmond, Deputy Secretary for Energy, State of California (California's Near- and Long-Term Demand Response Policy Objectives)
• Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld, Commissioner, California Energy Commission (Demand Response Hardware and Tariffs: California's Vision and Reality) (pdf)
• Ron Hofmann, PIER DR Program Advisor, (Demand Response Research and Development Program) (pdf)

9:45 a.m., Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) R&D Projects

• Nancy Jenkins, Buildings, PIER Program Area Lead (Establishment of a PIER Demand Response Research Center)
• Mary Ann Piette, Research Director, Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (PIER Demand Response Research Center) (pdf)
• Charles Goldman, Staff Scientist and the group leader of the Electricity Markets and Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (A Case Study of Niagara Mohawk's RTP Tariff) (pdf)

10:20 a.m., Break

10:35 a.m., DRRC R&D Projects continued

• Mary Ann Piette, Research Director, Demand Response Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Information Management for Automated Demand Response in Large Facilities) (pdf)

10:55 a.m., DR Enabling Technology R&D Projects

• Thomas Yeh, Chief Technical Officer, Connected Energy Corp., (Communication Architecture for Dispatching Demand Response) (pdf)
• Professor Paul Wright, A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley UCB ETD (UC Berkeley's Demand Response Enabling Technology Development Project) (pdf)

11:30 a.m., Closure

• Professor Severin Borenstein, Director, University of California Energy Institute and E.T. Grether Professor in Public Policy and Business Administration Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group, University of California, Berkeley, (Economic Implications of a High-Technology Demand Responsive Infrastructure)
• Laurie ten Hope, Energy Systems Integration, PIER Program Area Lead, (Summary & Conclusions)

Demos & Posters - (11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., California Energy Commission Lobby)