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Session Abstract
2:30 - 3:45 pm EDT
New Utility Business Models to Achieve Microgrid Critical Mass: Lessons Learned from the Disruptive Technologies that Led to the Decentralization of Telecommunications and Computing Networks
As new technologies enable the safe interconnection of larger microgrids with the existing utility grids, questions about how the rights of microgrid and utility grid management should be allocated between existing utility companies and microgrid users will arise. A consideration of property rights and regulation that opened access to decentralized telecommunications and computing networks can provide some guidance to electric grid decentralization with microgrids. A microgrid organizing and governance innovation called the Energy Improvement District (EID) will be presented with examples of its implementation in Samford and Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Within an EID, a microgrid is managed by energy users themselves as a common pooled resource. A brief summary of the characteristics that have empirically worked for the governance of other common pooled resoruces such as the internet will be considered. Also considered will be the practical mechanisms by which the rights of grid management formerly held by electric distribution monopolies can be successfully transferred to energy users in an EID whereby a win-win-win bargain is forged for EID members, other ratepayers, and utility shareholders alike. Several New York City microgrid project proposals with such a win-win-win arrangement will be reviewed.
Note: For quality purposes, the presentations in this session were pre-recorded on March 5, 2012 for initial broadcast during
this V-Summit. The live Q&A discussion on March 15 will begin at 3:35 pm EDT and go for approximately 10-15 minutes.
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Speakers:
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Guy Warner
Chief Executive Officer
Pareto Energy
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Guy Warner is the founder and CEO of Pareto Energy. Trained as a financial economist, Mr. Warner worked for 7 years with the Washington National Tax Service of Price Waterhouse, before founding his own company in 1990. Mr. Warner has worked on more than 100 energy and financial planning engagements and provided financial and strategic planning advice to a number of electric and gas utilities in the United States, Europe and South America. He has served as an economic and energy expert before federal courts and state public utility commissions. Since 1995, Mr. Warner has concentrated his work on developing new energy efficiency, renewable energy and on-site power projects. He has worked on more than twenty-five such projects in North, Central and South America.
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Margarett Jolly
DG Ombudsperson
Consolidated Edison Company of New York
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Margarett Jolly is currently the Distributed Generation (DG) Ombudswoman for Con Edison, guiding policy on interconnection processes, rates, and regulatory and technical issues related to DG, including customer and grid connected renewable technologies. She has been with Con Edison since 1997 working with power plant boiler and control systems and in the policy and regulatory arena. She has worked closely with stakeholders and the company's New York City Solar America Community partners, the NYC Department of Buildings, and NYSERDA in addressing barriers to interconnecting DG, providing network load data, sharing detail information on network operations, streamlining Con Edison's internal interconnection processes, clarifying handoffs between agencies, and identifying Solar Empowerment Zones where solar could provide the most benefit to the utility.
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Eric Ackerman
Director-Alternative Regulation
Edison Electric Institute
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Eric Ackerman is Director of Alternative Regulation at Edison Electric Institute, the trade association of investor-owned electric utilities. He is the chief strategist for retail energy delivery, providing national leadership on issues involving adaptive business strategy, alternative regulation, and cost of capital. As a member of EEI's smart grid issue team he is addressing the implications of smart grids for business strategy and regulatory policy. He also has been working with members to develop principles on access to customer energy data.
Before joining EEI, Eric was a member of the technical staff of the MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, where he participated in technology assessment projects involving renewable and coal-based synthetic fuels technologies. He began his energy career as managing editor of Energy Digest, a Washington-based trade newsletter covering developments involving energy R&D, and energy policy.
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