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Third Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry:

Ensuring that the Industry Has the Physical and

Human Resources Needed for the Next Thirty Years

 
AGENDA  
   

DAY 1

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007

   
   

7:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST

   

8:00 a.m.

Welcome - Vision on Carnegie Mellon Energy Research

  Ed Schlesinger, Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
   
8:15 a.m. Welcome - Objectives of Conference
  Lester Lave, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
  Marija Ilic, ECE and EPP, Carnegie Mellon
   
8:20 a.m. Lester Lave, Jay Apt, and Seth Blumsack, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center -
"The Effect of Deregulation on Investment in R&D, Equipment, and Human Capital"
   
8:50 a.m. 1st Keynote - "Vision of Future Energy Networks"
  Goran Andersson, Head of Power Systems Lab, ETH Zurich (presenting)
By Martin Geidl, Gaudenz Koeppel, Patrick Favre-Perrod, Bernd Klockl, Goran Andersson,
and Klaus Frohlich, Power Systems and High Voltage Laboratories, ETH Zurich
   
9:30 a.m. Gregory Reed, KEMA, Inc.; University of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon - "Reactive
Power Technologies - Value Proposition and Policy"
   
10:00 a.m. Edvaldo Alves de Santana (Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina and Brazilian Electricity
Regulatory Agency) and André Luis da Silva Leite (Southern Univ. of Santa Catarina) -
"Transaction Costs, Economics, Property Rights, and the Strategies of the Firms of the
Brazilian Electricity Industry"
   

10:30 a.m.

Break

   
10:45 a.m. Ahmad Faruqui and Ryan Hledik, The Brattle Group - "Benefits of Dynamic Pricing
to the Mass Market"
   
11:15 a.m. Jason Makansi, Pearl Street, Inc. - "Investing in Electricity Generation: Adding E-equity to Financial Models"
   
11:45 a.m. Jack Casazza, American Education Institute - "Electric Power Technology for the Future -
A Way to Proceed"
   

12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

   
1:15 p.m. Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon - "Engineering Energy Systems of the Future"
   
1:45 p.m. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon - "T&D and Terrorism"
   
2:15 p.m. Phil Overholt, U.S. Department of Energy - "Wide Area Measurement Systems –
Monitoring and Control for the Grid of the Future"
   
2:45 p.m. José Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio, Grupo Millennium Hispaniola - "A Generative
Dialogue to Reach the End-State of the Electricity Industry"
   

3:15 p.m.

Break

   
3:45 p.m. Laurentiu Nastac (presenting; Concurrent Technologies Corporation), Paul Wang,
Om Nayak, Raluca Lascu, Thomas Walker, Doublas Fitchett, and Soorya Kuloor
-
"Advanced Fault Analysis System for Distribution Power Systems"
   
4:15 p.m. Douglas Gotham, Kumar Muthuraman, Ronald Rarkin, Suriya Ruangpattana,
Purdue University
- "A Load Factor Based Mean-Variance Analysis for Fuel Diversification"
   
4:45 p.m. Howard Illian, Energy Mark, Inc. - "Discussion of Technical Issues Required to Implement
a Frequency Response Standard"
   
5:15 p.m. Jay Morrison, NRECA - "New FPA Second 217(b)(4): is FERC Living Up to Congress'
Expectations?"
   
5:45 p.m. Reception
   

6:45 p.m.

DINNER

  "The Ten Challenges/Issues/Opportunities/Roadblocks/ Requirements to Ensure
that the Electricity Supply Industry Has the Physical and Human Resources
Needed for the Next Thirty Years"
  Dinner Speaker - Leonard Hyman, R. J. Rudden Associates

 

   
   
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