Session Overview
Advances in Smart Grid Utility Practices
Track: GridWise: Towards a Smart Electric Grid
Thursday May/24/2007
9:00 - 10:30
The smart grid is no longer a pure and long-term vision by the few, but a rapidly adopted practice by a broad spectrum of industry stakeholders. This session will outline the status of adoption, and the changes being seen specially surrounding the utility companies.
Joseph (Joe) Bucciero
Senior Vice President
KEMA Incorporated
Moderator
Presentation (pdf)
Introduction of Panel Participants, GridWise Vision, and the GridWise Architecture Council.
Paul Kasick
Acting Mgr, AMI Product Management
Southern California Edison
Panelist
Presentation (pdf)
Building Smart Connections with Customers
SCE has developed an industry leading approach to designing an infrastucture that provide smart connections to our 5 million small commercial and residential customers to enhance service reliability, provide service automation and create new opportunities for customer innovation to manage energy use. Today, energy efficiency and demand response are critical to meeting SCE's energy needs in an environmentally friendly way. Moving forward to meet the needs of SCE's customers, meet environmental goals and manage the grid efficiently and effectively SCE is doing even more - smart meters are a key component.
Dave Chassin
Staff Scientist
PNNL
Panelist
Presentation (pdf)
The GridWise Olympic Peninsula Testbed Demonstration ended on 1 April 2007. David will review some of the preliminary results obtained from the project, with particular emphasis on some of the utility and customer impacts that can be expected from the technologies and strategies employed.
Steve Hauser
Vice President
GridPoint
Panelist
Presentation (pdf)
A wave of change is starting across the electricity sector providing opportunities for new technologies, new systems and new ideas. GridPoint is one of the companies on the forefront of these changes.