2. Nominate your award-worthy program and/or encourage others to self-nominate for the 15th PLMA Awards before the March 5 deadline. Details at www.peakload.org/awards
3. Note that all future PLMA email correspondence will originate from [email protected] to comply with anti-spam regulations. Add to your favorites and get your IT folks to whitelist it if necessary.
Pipeline - current member count is 135 organizations
- New Members: Con Edison; United Illuminating; GridOptimize, Tantalus (formerly Energate)
- Lost Members: Ameren Missouri; P.S. Oklahoma; Sunverge
37th Conference in Coronado. Registration and the Hotel del Coronado room block is now open; details at www.peakload.org/37th-conf-attend. A DR Dialogue Conference Preview with Mark Martinez, SCE and Brad Mantz, SDG&E will be broadcast on Feb. 15. Register at DR Dialogue: Conference Preview.
International Interest Group Formation. Any PLMA Board Member or At-Large Representative, or a designate, are welcome to attend a webcall to explore formation of a PLMA International Interest Group on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern. To register, go to attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1291951839558044929 . If you can't make that date/time, register anyway to demonstrate your interest and receive the meeting recording. Scott Coe of GridOptimize and Ross Malme of Skipping Stone have expressed interest in being Group Co-chairs. An outcome of this Feb. 13 discussion could be an in-person meeting in Coronado in April to explore development of services to benefit utilities around the world, such as international workshops, sister utilities exchanges, and on-line collaboration tools.
Member Meet-ups. Over 70 attended the PLMA Member Meet-up @ Distributech 2018 in San Antonio. The next Member Meet-up will be on Feb. 20 at the AESP National Conference in New Orleans. Get details and RSVP at www.peakload.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=12&Itemid=141&year=2018&month=02&day=20&title=plma-member-meet-up--aesp-national-conference&uid=e95cccd72d7c991e2950a3faa1e92472.
Speakers Bureau. PLMA helps place presenters as PLMA representatives for special topics, details at www.peakload.org/speakers-bureau. On February 21, Jason Cigarran, Itron, will be presenting on the Dynamic Pricing session @ AESP Conference in New Orleans and Rich Barone, Hawaiian Electric will represent PLMA on the DER session at Parks Assoc Smart Energy Summit in Austin. Parks Assoc. has also provided a $500 discount for PLMA members planning to attend that event, details in the calendar link.
Website Transition. Staff moved to new association management system in Dec/Jan which resulted is adjustments in website navigation and email management as well as the need for all to reset member log-in passwords.
Calendar
Feb. 1 - Dialogue: Award Winning Panel (online repeat of Distributech session)
Feb. 13 - Board member webcall to form PLMA International Interest Group
Feb. 15 - Dialogue: Conference Preview with Mark Martinez, SCE and Brad Mantz, SDG&E
Feb. 20 - Member Meetup @ AESP Conference, New Orleans
Feb. 21 - Dynamic Pricing session @ AESP Conference, New Orleans
Feb 21 - DER session at Parks Assoc Smart Energy Summit, Austin
Feb. 22 - Dialogue: Ben Foster and Michael Lee, FERC with Michael Brown, NV Energy
April 16-18,- 37th PLMA Conference, Coronado
Nov. 12-14 - 38th PLMA Conference, Austin
May 20-22, 2019, 39th PLMA Conference, Minneapolis (tentative)
