2024 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Harbor Ballroom A Lisa Khanna - Generate Capital (Session Chair) Dave Good - Gallaudet University Kristel Watson - Scale Microgrids Mahmoud Kabalan - Center for Microgrid Research - University of St Thomas Mission critical power needs are not only the domain of military bases and health care facilities. College campuses, traditional home to conventional power plants and combined heat and power generation, are increasingly embracing renewable and hybrid microgrids for sustainability and energy security... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Harbor Ballroom B Sunil Cherian - Spirae Katherine Cummings - G&W Electric David Braun - Intelligent Generation LLC Venkataramana Ramireddy - Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. Sam Harrell - Intel Corporation Build and deploy virtual microgrids in real time with leading energy players. This workshop will unite insights about microgrid deployment, operation, and connectivity with tangible experience. To reveal the substantial benefits that... Brought to you in partnership with: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Harbor Ballroom A Adib Nasle - Xendee Corporation Steve Pullins - AlphaStruxure Joseph Martorano - Arup JT Steenkamp - Prologis Mobility Industry experts continue to forecast sizable growth in commercial electric vehicle (EV) sales, with government incentives and private investment into the battery supply chain adding fuel to this expansion. However, concerns remain about how to move projects forward through... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Harbor Ballroom B Cameron Brooks - Think Microgrid (Session Chair) Brandon Bowser - Maryland Energy Administration Julia Masters - State of Colorado Elham Akhavan - Wood Mackenzie Veronica Szczerkowski - CT DEEP The 3rd Annual Think Microgrid Policy Workshop will once again bring together a cross-section of the microgrid policy community, industry practitioners and community stakeholders in an interactive setting to explore bold but pragmatic strategies to advance microgrids in the United States... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM | Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Harbor Ballroom CDE Laura Wright - BGE an Exelon Company
In this high-level one-on-one between two national leaders for clean energy deployment, Bindewald and Pielli will detail their career-long perceptions of the ever-evolving microgrid sector, including the federal government’s role... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Essex Ballroom Clark Wiedetz - GreenStruxure NA, LLC (Session Chair) Sreedhar Sistu - Schneider Electric Don Wingate - Schneider Electric Samantha Childress - Schneider Electric Join us for an insightful TechTalk where we delve into the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and microgrids. As the energy landscape evolves, the integration of AI technologies with microgrid systems presents a compelling opportunity to enhance operational efficiency... Brought to you by: | Harbor Ballroom B Dennis Garrett - Blue Lake Clean Energy Group LLC (Session Chair) Peter Lilienthal - truCurrent Jana Gerber - Schneider Electric Tad Piper - truCurrent Leading foodservice distributor US Foods is embracing progressive decarbonization, including distributed energy and microgrid installations. These projects are being designed specially to meet the reliability and carbon reduction goals of US Foods’ nationwide footprint... | Harbor Ballroom CDE Joe Sullivan - PXiSE Energy Solutions (Session Chair) Alex Rojas - Ameren Services Millie Knowlton - CPower Michael Lumbley - Rove Charging Digital technology will power the energy transition and growth in the electrification of transportation. Software technologies will underpin the solutions needed for better and more resilient infrastructure for public charging and critical infrastructure... | Harbor Ballroom A Todd Jackson - PowerSecure (Panel Moderator) Manish Murudkar - Cobb EMC William Sandell - American Municipal Power (AMP) Lance Haman - Georgia Power Company The utility industry faces a new type of power demand growth. Unlike the last period of growth, driven by residential load growth, this time it is defined by new sources of load: data centers, industrial facilities, hydrogen production and EV charging hubs... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Harbor Ballroom B Lisa Khanna - Generate Capital
This is not your typical IRA 101! This interactive session will lay out what the IRA has accomplished to-date and provide practical advice for developments and investors of microgrid projects seeking to harness IRA potential... | Harbor Ballroom CDE Rod Walton - Endeavor Business Media (Session Chair) Sonya Harbaugh - Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) Ian Walch - Enchanted Rock Philip Fischer - Black & Veatch Colby Cox - DC Byte Utility interconnection queues have surged. The average project now takes five years for interconnection, compared to two years in 2018. Delays in interconnection can result in missed revenue for power users, including data centers, EV fleets, and manufacturing facilities... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Essex Ballroom Hari Sivadas - Generac Power Systems Inc. Session Chair) Allen Schaeffer - Engine Technology Forum Venkataramana Ramireddy - Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. Michael Sanford - Cummins Inc. The need for localized and self-sufficient distributed power solutions is a growing consideration for achieving sustainability goals and ensuring reliable energy systems in both the public and private sectors. However, moving toward full electrification places additional burdens on grid power and... Brought you you by: | Harbor Ballroom A Erik Svanholm - 11 LLC (Session Chair) Claude Routhier - Poly-Energie inc. Richard Hepp - Schneider Electric The race for sustainable and resilient electrical solutions is driving home builders, electrical contractors, and solar installers to explore innovative technologies beyond individual homes. Among these innovations, community microgrids stand out as a promising approach... | Harbor Ballroom CDE Thomas Poteet - Mesa Solutions (Session Chair) Kati Sidwall - RTDS Technologies Matt Baker - Typhoon HIL James Cleveland - IHI Terrasun Solutions Hardware in the Loop testing ensures for customers that microgrids will perform as expected and handle adverse operating conditions. Panelists will identify the adverse conditions that microgrids face, the tools to analyze and design for these conditions... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Harbor Ballroom CDE Andrew Wall - PowerSecure (Session Chair) Michael Stadler - Xendee Corp Rick Lank - Resilient Power Works, LLC David Tucker - U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory Timothy Grunloh - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Consistent baseload power without carbon is a core challenge for microgrids. This session will provide an application-centric overview of how hydrogen and nuclear-based solutions can be integrated into microgrids and serve as the baseload anchor point for intermittent renewables... | Harbor Ballroom A Jana Gerber - Schneider Electric Jaclyn Whiteman - Duke Energy Molly Hoyt - Pacific Gas & Electric Company Adrian Rivera - Slipstream Historically, most microgrids have been developed as single-customer assets behind the meter, such as hospitals, military installations, and remote sites. Increasingly, communities are seeking development of microgrids serving multiple entities or facilities to better secure a more holistic energy security... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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8:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Harbor Ballroom CDE A Resilient Maryland Educates and Leaves Nobody Behind Brandon Bowser - Maryland Energy Administration Maryland's efforts to improve the State's resiliency to the threats of climate change, natural disasters, severe weather, malicious cyber activity, and aging infrastructure have accelerated over the past nearly half-decade. The Maryland Energy Administration and the Resilient Maryland program... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Grand Ballroom (3rd Floor) Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Harbor Ballroom B Michael Boswell - Concord Engineering Group, Inc. (Session Chair) Kevin Sharp - Southern California Edison Rithy Chhean - BoxPower Adrienne Pierce - New Sun Road Ronald Chebra - CCG-NJ The challenges of serving remote customers are many. Often these sites are located on mountain tops and other isolated locations with few customers, yet difficult and expensive to maintain and support with traditional grid T&D services. The obligation to serve remains the same, no matter what.... | Harbor Ballroom A Taiwo Alo - Pepco Holdings Inc. (Session Chair) Mac Keller - Smart Electric Power Alliance Julia Masters - State of Colorado Amanda Lemaster - Energy and Environment Cabinet Daniel Eitzman - PA Department of Environmental Protection Every state’s journey toward the end goal of cleaner energy is a different path with unique circumstances in how to effectively merge resiliency and sustainability. Planning, prioritizing, and developing microgrid solutions requires consideration of the scope, scale, limitations... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | Harbor Ballroom CDE 11:45 a.m. Harbor Ballroom CDE
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12:55 PM - 1:15 PM | Harbor Ballroom CDE Microgrids are part of the mission-critical pathway to net zero unity in the future. They often are something of even deeper immediacy—energy lifelines for those who need it most…and need it now. |