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Session Abstract
10:00 - 10:30 am EDT
Making the Business Case in Today's Complex Smart Grid Investment Environment
Technology developments and a growing body of use cases that demonstrate attractive ROIs across the investment spectrum have transformed smart grid business case analysis from relatively straight-forward AMI/Smart meter investment decisions to a system-wide optimization challenge. Attractive investment options now potentially range from substation and feeder monitoring and controls to meters and in-premise technologies and pricing strategies. Technology and program interactions along with communications, IT and management systems infrastructure requirements make the current investment decision process exceedingly complex.
This presentation will describe a modeling approach that applies a structured knowledge base and information discovery process to guide utility decision-makers through the seemingly overwhelming set of smart grid investment choices. The model, developed by the Smart Grid Research Consortium, is the result of a two-year research and development process. The session will provide insights based on fifteen utility applications and present several examples that illustrate the advantages of an information discovery process in addressing today's smart grid investment challenges.
Note: For quality purposes, this presentation was pre-recorded on May 29, 2012 for initial broadcast during
this V-Summit. The live Q&A discussion on May 31 will begin at 10:35 am EDT and go for approximately 10 minutes.
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Speaker:
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Dr. Jerry Jackson
Leader and Research Director
Smart Grid Research Consortium
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Dr. Jerry Jackson, Leader and Research Director of the Smart Grid Research Consortium, is an energy economist with more than thirty years' experience in utility forecasting, utility program development and financial analysis, and new energy technology market analysis. The Consortium provides business model software to the utility industry and consulting to support the model and smart grid investment analysis. Dr. Jackson was previously a professor at Texas A&M University and Chief of the Applied Research Division at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is also president of Jackson Associates where he has worked with utilities, state regulatory agencies, equipment manufactures and others in addressing energy industry issues. His clients include utilities ranging from small coops and municipal utilities to the largest investor owned utilities in the US and Canada. He has assisted leading technology companies in analyzing and evaluating markets for new energy-related technologies including fuel cells, microturbines, combined heat and power, cool storage, flywheels, energy-efficiency/demand response technologies and demand response programs. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida.
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