This forum will discuss the costs, benefits, and value proposition of smart grid technologies, tools, and techniques for electricity consumers. The target audience is state energy officials, regulators, and offices of consumer advocates, but it will be open to all interested parties from across the country.
The Department of Energy is assembling an E-Forum to discuss the costs, benefits, and value proposition of smart grid technologies, tools, and techniques for electricity consumers. Experts in advanced metering, transmission, distribution, and end use technologies will present cases of deployments that have provided tangible benefits to electricity customers. The experts will also respond to questions from a panel of state and federal officials.
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Andres E. Carvallo
Chief Information Officer, Austin Energy
Andres is currently the Chief Information Officer at Austin Energy, where he is responsible for the technology vision, planning, development and operations across the enterprise. Since February of 2003, Andres has been driving a wireless and SOA transformation to deliver a fully-integrated and self-healing enterprise. The current direction for the company is to deliver the first smart grid in the world by 2009. In addition to his responsibilities as CIO, Andres is member of the 8 person executive team, and member of the Innovation and Opportunity Development executive board. Outside of Austin Energy, Andres is Chairman for the Large Public Power Companies' CIO Task Force, a board member of the Center for Commercialization of Electric Technologies and an advisor to several companies.
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Ahmad Faruqui
Principal, Brattle Group
Dr. Faruqui is one of the nation's leading experts on the design and evaluation of innovative pricing, demand response, and energy efficiency programs. He has helped design, implement, monitor and evaluate innovative rates throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and the Middle East and was one of the architects and evaluators of California's award-winning dynamic pricing pilot.
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Sandy Aivaliotis
Senior VP Operations, Technology and Business Development North America After a number of technical and marketing positions within Nexans, Sandy Aivaliotis was appointed Vice President International in 1995. He subsequently assumed additional business development responsibilities for the US market in the industrial, commercial and utility sectors from 1999 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed Vice President Business Development in Nexans’ International cross sales organization. In 2007 he was appointed to his current position responsible for a newly acquired Nexans unit, The Valley Group, which manufactures enabling technologies to help our utility customers protect and optimize the utilization of their transmission grid assets, including smart grid applications. Sandy is a Professional Engineer
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