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 5^th 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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