Thank you to all who participated in a successful 2019 NECPUC Symposium. The contents of this page have been provided by the presenters.
Wholesale Markets Panel
- Goals of electric restructuring, past and present
Sharon Reishus, President, Reishus Consulting
PANELISTS:
Hon. Kathryn Bailey, Commissioner, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
Hon. Katie Scharf Dykes, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection
Hon. Matthew Nelson, Chairman, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
Hon. June Tierney, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Public Service
Hon. Nicholas Ucci, Deputy Commissioner of Energy, Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
Hon. R. Bruce Williamson, Commissioner, Maine Public Utilities Commission
Fireside Chat: Resilience in Practice
- Defining and Discussing Resilience
Hon. Michael Giaimo, Commissioner, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission - Resilient Electric Grid Systems
Daniel McGahn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American Superconductor - Elements of a National Grid Resilience Architecture
Eric Limpaecher, Group Leader, Energy Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Telecom Panel
Telecommunications Buildout: From Broadband to 5G, what every commission and community needs to know
- 5G and Small Cells
Jackie McCarthy, Assistant Vice President – Regulatory Affairs, CTIA - Massachusetts State and Municipal Issues
Hon. Karen Charles Peterson, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable - 2 Municipal Fiber To The Premise Activities
Jack McCoy, Chief Information Officer, Town of Manchester, Connecticut - Telecom Panel Follow up
Chuck Eves, Vice President of Electric Operations, Avangrid - Update: Cellular and Fiber in the Right of Way
Josh Broder, Chief Executive Officer, Tilson
Natural Gas Panel
The Future is Now: Natural Gas Safety in New England
- Training and Operator Qualification
Karl Baker, Public Utilities Supervisor of Technical Analysis, Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety at Eversource
Eric Eggleston, Manager, Gas Policy & Compliance, Eversource
Performance Incentive Mechanisms
Moderator: Hon. Cecile Fraser, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
Hon. Abigail Anthony, Commissioner, Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
Michael O’Boyle, Director of Electricity Policy, Energy Innovation
Hon. John Rhodes, Chair, New York Public Service Commission
D. Maurice Kreis, Consumer Advocate, New Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate
Ethics CLE
- Legal Ethics Panel
Hon. Martin Honigberg, Chair, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
Linda Randell, Attorney & Governance/Regulation Consultant and Former Chair, American Bar Association Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section
If Implemented Effectively: The Future of Storage
- Utility-Scale Storage
Jeffrey Bishop, Chief Executive Officer, Key Capture Energy - Benefits, Policies, and Utility Role in Energy Storage
Mike Calviou, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Regulation, National Grid - Residential Solar & Storage
Anne Hoskins, Chief Policy Officer, SunRun - Problem solving with Energy Storage
Lon Huber, Director, Navigant - The Expanding Role of Energy Storage in the Regional Power System
Christopher Parent, Director of Market Development, ISO New England
Shark Tank! Innovation Extravaganza
- Smart Metering as a Service
Camberline Technologies – Melissa Chan, Co-Founder and CEO - Community Scale Low Impact Pumped Hydroelectric Storage
Nature & People First – Denis Payre, Co-Founder & President - Stash Energy M1 Comfort System
Stash Energy – Jordan Kennie, CEO and Co-founder - Flexible Demand as a Grid Resource
Open Energy Efficiency – Ethan Goldman, Director of Customer Solutions - Natural Gas-Powered Heat Pump
ThermoLift – Mark Austin, Strategic Advisor - EGM Grid Monitoring Solution
Electrical Grid Monitoring – James Lavin, Board Member
Water in the Public Trust: The Role of Utilities and Regulators
Hon. John “Jack” Betkoski III, Vice Chairman, Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
Janice Beecher, Director, Institute of Public Utilities Policy Research & Education, Michigan State University
Susan Suhanovsky, President, Torrington Water
Alicea Charamut, Executive Director, Rivers Alliance of Connecticut
Making Research Relevant: Academic Research and Economic Regulation
- Research on Power Grid Resilience
Emmanouil Anagnostou, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut