by Nicholas Rinaldi
December 11, 2018
GTM Squared will livestream two full days of panels and presentations on Dec. 11-12 from San Francisco. Squared members get exclusive access to the broadcast and video on-demand afterward.
See the agenda below, and join today so you don’t miss any insights!
For less than one night at a San Francisco hotel, you’ll hear directly from the utilities, financiers, regulators, technology innovators, and storage practitioners driving the global storage market.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 (all times PT)
9:00 a.m.-9:35 a.m. Welcome and Opening Keynote Research Presentation: The State of Global Energy Storage Markets
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Ravi Manghani, Director, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
9:35 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Keynote Panel: Co-Op and Muni CEOs — Storage as a Game Changer
- Jackie Sargent, General Manager, Austin Energy
- Cris Eugster, Chief Operations Officer, CPS Energy
- Bryant Robbins, Chief Operations Officer, United Power
- Kevin Short, General Manager, Anza Electric Cooperative
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Moderator: Kelly Speakes-Backman, CEO, Energy Storage Association (ESA)
10:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Storage State Policies for the Win: Peak Standards and Mandates
- Kari Smith, Grid Planning & Reliability — Senior Utility Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission
- Lara Pierpoint, Senior Fundamental Program Strategy Manager, Exelon
- John Cerveny, Director of Resource Development, NY-BEST
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Moderator: Emma Foehringer Merchant, Writer, Greentech Media
11:20 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Wholesale Markets: Latest on 841 and Other Initiatives
- Kevin Vannoy, Director of Market Design, MISO
- Michael DeSocio, Senior Manager – Market Design, NYISO
- Evan Riley, Vice President Development, Cypress Creek Renewables
- Peter Klauer, Senior Advisor, Smart Grid Technology, California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
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Moderator: Daniel Finn-Foley, Senior Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
12:05 p.m.-12:50 p.m. Utility Procurement and Resource Planning Best Practices
- Margarett Jolly, Director, Demonstration Projects, Customer Energy Solutions, Con Edison
- Mark Irwin, Director of Energy Contract Management, Energy Procurement & Management , Southern California Edison
- Erin Minear, Technical Leader, Energy Storage Program, EPRI
- Michael Arndt, Managing Director, Development, Recurrent Energy
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Moderator: Julian Spector, Staff Writer, Greentech Media
1:50 p.m.-2:20 p.m. C&I Storage Adoption: What Do Customers Want?
- Brandon Middaugh, Senior Manager, Distributed Energy, Microsoft
- Seth Baruch, National Director Energy & Utilities, Kaiser Permanente
- Christopher Tilley, President & CEO, ENGIE Storage
- Kenneth Seeton, Energy Manager, California State University Dominguez Hills
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Moderator: Jeremy Jones, Commercial & Industrial Energy Solutions, Groom Energy, Groupe EDF
2:20 p.m.-2:50 p.m. DC-Coupled Solar Plus Storage: Results From the Field
- Jason Handley, Director of Smart Grid Technology & Operations, Duke Energy
- Apurva Somani, Research & Development Lead, Dynapower
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Moderator: Mitalee Gupta, Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
2:50 p.m.-3:35 p.m. Residential Storage: Value of DERs in Tariffs
- David Peterson, Adviser, Consumer Technology, Arizona Public Service
- Miriam Makhyoun, Power Supply Contracts Manager, MCE
- Scott Zimmermann, Associate, Energy & Infrastructure, Wilson Sosini Goodrich & Rosati
- Matt Owens, Business Development Executive, West Monroe Partners
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Moderator: Brett Simon, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables (previously GTM Research)
4:05 p.m.-4:35 p.m. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Presentation: Playing Well With Others — Market for Storage Hybrids
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Daniel Finn-Foley, Senior Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
4:35 p.m.-5:20 p.m. Global Storage: Lessons from International Markets
- Natalia Eisele, Associate, SUSI Partners
- Rahul Walawalkar, Executive Director, Indian Energy Storage Alliance
- Angelina Galiteva, Founder, Renewables 100 Policy Institute and CAISO Board Member
- Ben Kass, Attorney, Husch Blackwell
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Moderator: Ravi Manghani, Director, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables (previously GTM Research)
5:20 p.m.-5:50 p.m. Energy Majors Heart Storage: Investments and Other Strategies
- Boris Schubert, General Manager, Solar and Storage Projects, Shell New Energies
- Edouard Bulteau, Investment Director, Total Energy Ventures
- David Kirkpatrick, Director, Marathon Capital
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Moderator: Anastasia Palivos, Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 (all times PT)
8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Breakfast Briefing I: 2018, The Year of Residential Storage
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Brett Simon, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Breakfast Briefing II: Battery and Non-Battery Cost Trends — Where’s the Floor?
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Mitalee Gupta, Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Live Podcast: The Hottest Storage Stories of 2018
- Stephen Lacey, Editor-in-Chief, Greentech Media
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Julian Spector, Staff Writer, Greentech Media
10:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. It’s a Crowded Field: Emerging Storage Technologies
- Melisa Johns, Vice President Business & Product Development, Duke Energy
- Tilak Gopalarathnam, Director of Energy Technology Partnerships, LG Corp
- Wade Bitaraf, Global Head of Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play
- Joe Zhou, CEO, Quidnet Energy
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Moderator: Eric Wesoff, Founder, Sage Marketing
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Enabling Energy Storage Flexibility Through Software
- Stephen T. Johnston, Growth Development Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric
- Arthur (Bud) Vos, President & CEO, Enbala Power Networks
- Ryan Wartena, Co-Founder & President, Director of Product, Geli
- Bert Taube, Senior Principal Investigator, Energy Storage & Solar PV, Southern Research
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Moderator: Daniel Finn-Foley, Senior Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. Energy Storage System Integration: Not All About the Batteries
- Kate McGinnis, Managing Director for North America, Fluence
- Dean Solon, Founder & CEO, Shoals Technologies Group
- Kyle Garton, Director of Product Development, AutoGrid Systems
- Enrico Ladendorf, Managing Director and Founder, Pason Power
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Moderator: Mitalee Gupta, Analyst, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
12:30 p.m.-12:50 p.m. Fireside Chat on Equity and Project Finance Trends in Energy Storage
- Bill Bush, Chief Financial Officer, Stem
- Brad Leufkens, Senior Principal, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
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Moderator: Stephen Lacey, Editor-in-Chief, Greentech Media
1:50 p.m.-2:20 p.m. Greensmith Comparative Case Study
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Andrew Tang, Senior Vice President of International Business Development, Greensmith
2:20 p.m.-3:05 p.m. Startup Technology Showcase: Rapid-Fire Pitch Session
- Rick Chamberlain, Vice President of Engineering, Cadenza Innovation
- Peter Frischmann, CEO & Co-Founder, Sepion Technologies
- Tal Sholklapper, CEO & Co-Founder, Voltaiq
- Ajay Kochhar, CEO, Li-Cycle
- Mike Pintar, COO, NETenergy
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Moderator: Scott Clavenna, Chairman, Greentech Media
3:35 p.m.-4:20 p.m. Where’s the Leverage? Financing Storage Projects
- Shounok Sinha, Principal, Products & Structuring, Constellation
- Jim Hughes, CEO and Managing Director, Prisma Energy
- Carl Stills, Vice President, Storage Integration, 8minutenergy Renewables
- Dirk Michels, Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
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Moderator: Brett Simon, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
4:20 p.m.-5:05 p.m. Building the Future Storage Market – Challenges We Face and How We’ll Solve Them
- Marco Terruzzin, Director, Energy Storage, E.ON
- Julia Eagles, Public Policy & Strategy Manager, Xcel Energy
- Howard Smith, Manager of Distributed Energy Resource Policy, Southern Company
- Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy
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Moderator: Ravi Manghani, Director, Energy Storage, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
Source: Greentech Media
