Retail’s Evolution of Providing and Buying Energy: Feedback on Feedback Draft Agenda September 28, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 4 p.m. 700 North Adams St. Green Bay, Wisconsin 54307 9:00 – 9:20 Welcome, introductions, rules of the road (Mahany Braithwait) 9:20 – 9:30 Common vocabulary for the day (Mahany Braithwait) 9:30 – 9:45 Results of survey (Williams) 9:45 – 10:00 Boulder Colorado (David Donovan, Xcel) 9:45 – 10: 05 Report from KEMA—What have learned from past programs that can be used to inform us of future customer behavior when active customer participation is needed to implement a program. (Bobbi Tannenbaum, KEMA) 10:05 – 10:10 Break 10:10 – 10:30 Phone Report on focus group work currently underway on customer response to the customer/meter interface (Linda Dethman, Cadmus) 10:30 – 10:50 Are you ready for Smart Grid? (Craig Maternaski) 10:50 – 11:45 WPS Community Pilot (WPS) 11:45 – 12:30 Lunch Break 12:30 – 4:00 Round Table Discussion (this will be an open discussion but there will be short presentations on the topics below. Each bullet point below will be given 10 minutes to lay out their thoughts and then discussion will follow. 12:30 – 1:30 For each company at the meeting--What is your company doing in regard to smart meters: • • • • • • What meters do you have, one way or two way? Are you planning or using any rate programs with the meters (no specific rates will be discussed) Are you using or planning on using “enabling technology” to take advantage of the meters new found role –Electric Vehicles to compressors/heat strips on refrigerators What are you finding in the fielding of the new meters—a perspective from the meter shop to customer service calls What else are you thinking about doing What will you never try again (well, at least not in the next year or two) 1:30 – 1:45 Break 1:45 – 4:00 Specific Topics: • • • Why aren’t manufacturers jumping on board with smart chips? We will discuss U-SNAP solutions that have manufacturers looking more favorably on interrupting their “products job” and taking the risk out of the utility decision for “which” system to go with. An analysis of splitting the current Time-of-Day (TOD) pricing periods into additional pricing periods and a plan for implementation of such pricing periods in 2011. A plan to convert the Cg-2 rate schedule to a mandatory TOD rate to occur in 2011. • A plan to bid Direct Load Control (DLC) program and interruptible loads into the MISO energy market as price-sensitive loads. Rick Potter, Alliant • Cost recovery: how is it being handled in Wisconsin? All • Time of use meter capability being installed for water? Yes and why. Jem Brown, Wisconsin Rapids • Daily/hourly reads—how one company is managing the information and what they plan to do with the information. Joan Shafer, Wisconsin Electric • How are customers being alerted to upcoming price signals and how are they responding? All • Confidentiality issues now cropping up across the country—what is the current thinking? All • EV pricing—what are we learning about customer use and plugging into the system? Greg Bollom, Madison Gas and Electric • The business case for meters—what is helping to sell meters to the industry (Tom Paque, WPPI)
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