BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c8fbf6e6d6152e1652870d3756ebd151147 CATEGORIES:PLMA Load Management Dialogue SUMMARY:Dialogue: CPS Energy for Public Engagement DESCRIPTION:
Load Management Dialogue |
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Recognizing the need to protect their cust omers from potential increase in energy costs resulting from projected peak load demands and megawatt availability in the ERCOT market, CPS Energy’s l eadership challenged the Demand Response (DR) team to grow the company’s DR program for summer 2019 by 28 megawatts. The team created a plan to grow t hrough behavioral DR, wifi thermostats, and both commercial and public cust omer engagement. Multiple new program options were created or expanded, inc luding DR Coaching for commercial customers and an expanded behavioral DR p rogram to 300,000 residential customers. To achieve this goal, a public eng agement campaign engaging a local news station was created. The plan focuse d on adding an energy peak awareness message as part of the weather segment of the newscast. When a DR event was anticipated, the weather reporter wou ld encourage viewers to lower energy usage throughout the day. At the end o f the day, a follow up thank you message was announced during the nightly n ewscast. Through this effort of directly engaging the customer, CPS Energy exceeded the goal by adding over 40 MWs of DR to the portfolio. To promote friendly competition, customers in the program were able to see their kwh r eduction versus their neighbors and where they ranked in energy savings.
Justin ChamberlainCPS Energy and PLMA Executive CommitteeJustin i s a Program Manager – Demand Response with CPS Energy, a public power utili ty that serves electric and gas to the City of San Antonio, Texas. He is re sponsible for customer recruitment, program design, administration and ulti mately the success of residential and commercial Demand Response Programs i ncluding; Automated and Traditional Demand Response, Smart Thermostat and t he development of a mid-market demand response solution. |
Julie CainCPS EnergyJulie has been the Residenti al Program Manager for CPS Energy since 2017. She serves as a vital part of a collaborative team responsible for the achievement of CPS Energy’s aggre ssive DSM goals. Julie handles the day-to-day operations for residential De mand Response programs including multiple thermostat programs and Behaviora l Demand Response totaling close to 500,000 customers. She also assists wit h the continuing expansion of new residential programs from ideation, launc h, and ultimately program management. |
Mike Smith is a S enior Program Manager at National Grid, responsible for managing the implem entation of National Grid’s full portfolio of Dynamic Load Management progr ams in New York State. Additionally, Mike leads the expansion and developme nt of National Grid’s DR programs as they grow to support increased DER par ticipation and provide more focused grid solutions such as Non-Wires Altern atives. Prior to joining National Grid, Mike spent more than a decade in th e Energy Consulting field, providing program development and implementation services for some of the largest utilities and state agencies in the North east. Mike has been active in PLMA since 2017 and serves as Co-Chair of the Awards Group.
Who Should Attend. Utility and regulatory staff as well as other energy industry trad e allies and organizations seeking thought leadership and insight on dynami c load management, including demand response and distributed energy resourc es.
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