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Distributed Energy Resources: Sustaining the Momentum and Delivering
the Benefits
January 27 and 28, 2004
La Jolla, CA — Hyatt Regency
Platinum Sponsor: Department of Energy
Co-Hosts Include:
Local Government Commission
Flex Your Power
California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
California Manufacturers and Technology Association
US Combined Heat and Power Association
The California Association of
Distributed Energy Resources (CADER)
and the Clean DG Coalition of California present the 5th Annual
International Symposium on DER. Both CADER and the Coalition are
voluntary collaborative organizations committed to facilitating
the successful deployment of highly efficient and environmentally
responsible distributed energy resources into competitive energy
markets. This year, stakeholders from across a broad spectrum of
government, private industry, and energy have been invited to participate
in discussion and educational workshops geared especially for end
use customers and policymakers. The Local Government Commission
is a featured co-host and chair of the session on Community Aggregation!
Local Governments are especially encouraged to attend — planners,
energy facility managers, and electeds! Each session is designed
to educate participants on the status, issues, challenges and opportunities
where participants will learn the latest and discuss solutions.
In addition to receiving expert, up-to-the-minute education, your
views will be incorporated into suggested regulatory and legislative
briefs that will be distributed to conference attendees and policymakers
following the conference.
You should participate in this conference if you are interested
in creating and ensuring innovative ways to accelerate the regional
implementation of DER. Nationwide, there is a growing demand for
regional energy sustainability and reliability - DER is a critical
component. Events in the Northeast and California's experience
has accelerated the public debate about DER and its' role in our
energy present and future.
Questions that will be explored include:
- How do we move beyond the inherent conflicts and challenges
of hybrid regulatory markets to ensure equity, environmental
stewardship, safety and reliability, cost-effectiveness and
efficiency for all consumers of energy?
- How do we deliver the benefits of DER in a sustainable manner
that keeps investment flowing, propels the advancement of technology,
preserves customer confidence and choice, and equitably balances
costs and benefits fairly among ratepayers and energy providers,
including the T&D market players?
- How should regional mechanisms be created that result in
new, planned DER that is integrated and coordinated within
local and statewide resource planning in every area of infrastructure?
- What conflict or cultural/structural/political challenges
exist that hinders the complete delivery of the benefits of
DER and what should be done to solve the impasse(s)?
- What specific actions and policy recommendations can and
should each stakeholder in California undertake to effect successful
changes to policy and regulatory outcomes?
The conference will hold panel and interactive sessions on the
following topics:
- Cost and Benefits of DER — The Last Regulatory Frontier
- Utility Perspectives: Owning and Operating DER
- DER's Role in Community Aggregation — Renewable and CHP
Resources
- Communications and Control — Recent Advances in Remote
DG Access, Operation and Control
- Optimization Technology and The Grid — What new technology
can tell us about DER's best location and operations?
- Financing Risk and Investment of DER
- Updates and Primer on Air, Building and Environmental Permitting
- Interconnection Standards — Simplified to the new world
of Network Interconnections and Protection
- California Energy Policy — Vision Panel — State
Policy Leaders
- The Central Valley — DER's Future and Opportunity
To register and for more information, visit the CADER
web site (www.cader.org). Or call, Tracy Saville, Conference Program Co-Chair
at (916) 325-2500
x106.
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