Here’s the text of a brochure for an upcoming conference on Distributed Generation. It’s put on by a company that does conferences, and they seem to have done a good job assembling the players in DG, and put together an interesting agenda. If you’re interested, I suggest you call (781) 736-0800 and ask them to fax or mail a copy of their brochure. They don’t have a website.

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
Power Quality and Reducing Energy Costs

April 28-29, 1998 Back Bay Hilton, Boston MA
May 6-7 1998, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Philadelphia PA

Learn Winning Strategies & Case Studies From These Industry Leaders:

Official Sponsor Organizations:
AEE — EPRI — GRI — EEI — International Private Energy Association — End-User News — Bloomberg Energy Services — Distributed Power Coalition of America — Caterpillar Inc. — Source Book: The Energy Industry’s Journal of Issues — Cogeneration & Competitive Power Journal

End-users attend for less than half price!
Attend this conference to learn how to take advantage of the opportunities and understand the issues for the installation of Distributed Generation

TECHNOLOGICAL & TECHNICAL
Opportunities: Improved generating & fuel efficiencies and reduced emissions;
Smaller optimum plant size Issues: Grid connection; Dispatchability; Systems protection; Load interactions; Control tools

LEGISLATION & REGULATION
Opportunities: PURPA; EPAct; Federal and State incentive programs and tax initiatives Issues: FERC’s order 888/889; Clean Air Act Amendments

ECONOMICS & COMPETITIVE MARKETS
Issues: Higher initial cost of some technologies; Determining localized costs, localized benefits, and value of service; Wholesale and retail wheeling on the horizon

ENVIRONMENTAL
Opportunities: Cleaner fuels and reduced emissions of technologies; Small foot print and modular technologies facilitates
Issues: filing and compliance responsibilities
WHO WILL BE ATTENDING
This conference has been researched and designed specifically for all industrial, commercial, government and institutional end-users including
* National Accounts Energy Buyers & Operations Managers
* Commercial & Governmental Property/Facility Managers
* Industrial/Manufacturing Facility Managers/Energy Buyers
* Building Managers & Plant Engineers
>From and on-site generators, hospitals & healthcare facilities, manufacturers, schools and universities, commercial real estate developers and municipalities

**** Special Discount rates for Industrial, Commercial, Institutional Energy Consumers and On-sight Generators Half off the registration fee! (also Federal, State & Local Government Employees)

AND

including
* Energy Service Companies & Consultants
* Outsourcing Firms, Third Party Contractors, Performance Contractors
* Electric & Gas Utility Marketing Managers
* Energy Producers, Brokers and Marketers

Send several members of your energy engineering and management team and save! We’ve set up special team discounts when you register 3 or more delegates at the same time! For more information call (781) 736-0800 for details.

AGENDA

or Wednesday May 6,1998 – Philadelphia

8:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45 CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Kenneth S. Dee, President & CEO, GLOBAL ENERGY SOLUTIONS

The direction of regulation and deregulation of the changing energy industry will drive the future of distributed generation. On the one hand if deregulation provides maximum flexibility at the wholesale level, distributed generation will benefit. However, on the other hand the regulation of the T&D rates could have either a positive or negative impact.
· Ascertain the recent legislative/regulatory changes affecting generation development and the opportunities created
· Examine the economic issues surrounding deregulation and their impact on distributed generation – both favorable and unfavorable
· Identifying markets with favorable environments
· Learn strategies to drive distributed generation potential · deregulation
· regulated rate structure
· Learn how and when it makes sense to combine with others when installing on-site generation
· Understanding the new role of the utility when installing distributed or on-site generation
· The outlook for tapping global markets

Stephen J. Remen, Managing Director, NATIONAL ENERGY CHOICE
Jerry White, Vice President of marketing, COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
9:50 ECONOMICS OF DISTRUBUTED GENERATION FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF CUSTOMERS: REAL ECONOMIES OR FLEETING PROMISES
Distributed (on-site) power will be competing with unregulated, rather than unregulated power markets. To the extent true competition rationalizes markets for power, the economies of all types of substitutes for system power, including distributed generation may change. It is absolutely important for both vendors of distributed generation and the potential customers to understand the economics of new technology breakthroughs and their place in the restructured marketplace.
· Understanding the basic economic drivers of DistGen
· Analyzing the break-even prices to take advantage of DistGen
· When gains are real and permanent
· Learning how to forecast benefits from DistGen
· Relationships to transmission and distribution cost: Assessing T&D rates
· Backup services from the network
· Stranded and social cost avoidance
· For Vendors: Understanding the types of customers that can be good targets
· For Customers: Understanding whether DistGen is for you

Anuj Arya, Principal, BOOZ, ALLEN & HAMILTON

10:40 Exhibit Viewing & Networking Refreshment Break

11:00 UNIQUE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE DISTRIBUTED UTILITY
· Analysis of recent DistGen market Studies
· Matching technologies to applications
· The virtual power plant: Using standby generators to your maximum advantage
· Distributed resources after electric utility industry restructuring
· Environmental policy options for DistGen
· The use of renewables for distributed power

Joe Iannucci, Principal, DISTRIBUTED UTILITY ASSOCIATES

11:30 NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISTRIBUTED GENERATION: OBTAINING LOW COST & HIGH QUALITY
· Understanding DistGen as a disruptive technology
· How the impact of DistGen will create new ways of planning capital expenditures
· Why the major portion of future power will be generated by distributed resources:
· economic benefits
· environmental benefits: low noise, low emissions, low weight
· simplicity and flexibility
· multi-fuel and fuel diversity
· power quality and reliability

S. K. Suman, Director, Business Development, ENERGIS RESOURCES

The emergence of new technologies and business practice embodied in distributed electric generation has created opportunities for manufacturers, utilities and their energy providers. This presentation addresses the their concerns and issues, while examining existing and emerging products for DG including specific performance characteristics and case study applications. DG can be the solution to the problems of facing today’s electric industry including: · Rapid growth in manufacturing facilities often creates problems and stresses for power generation sources and power delivery
· Combinations of distant generation, limited electric distribution facilities and uneven demand for electric power creates a less than optimum situation for both customers and their utility suppliers
· Manufacturing productivity and product quality in modern manufacturing facilities is susceptible to interruptions in service and fluctuations in power quality
· The ability to attract and maintain a world-class manufacturing base requires access to reliable and cost-competitive delivered energy

Paul Bautista, Program Team Leader, Power Generation, GAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

1:15 END-USER OPTIONS & CRITERIA FOR FINANCING YOUR EPG PROJECT
A financial look at the options available to EPG customers and governmental entities. This analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the various lease options allows you to determine which options are right for your particular situation. This talk includes a look at comparing lease pricing and review of credit information requirements.
· What are your financing options?
· Determining your financing strategy
· Finance vs. Tax ease options: advantages and disadvantages of lease options
· Understanding municipal leases and their advantages
· Factors that influence lease payments
· Lease cost comparisons
· What credit information is required for financing?

Jim Yule, International Accounts Manager, Global Accounts Division, CATERPILLAR FINANCIAL SERVICES
1:45 MINIMIZING ELECTRIC MARKET RISK: ENSURING YOUR DISTRIBUTED GENERATION IS PROFITABLE
Distributed generation offers tremendous opportunities. With deregulation, however, electric prices will fluctuate and in most cases drop. How far and how fast they fall will affect the profitability of your distributed generation. Asses the risks, and learn how to mitigate them to ensure you get the lowest electricity costs
· Understand expected technological advances in generation
· Learn about potential market events that will affect electricity prices
· Discover how to identify and asses the risks associated with distributed generation that most affect your business · Identify partners to help mitigate risk
· Master techniques to mitigate the risk to profitability of your distributed generation

Douglas Short, President, DOUGLAS SHORT CONSULTING INC.
2:15 THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION IN ISO STRUCTURES: NICHE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE T&D SYSTEM
End users and third parties have substantial potential stranded costs sunk into existing DG systems. Are these actually potentially stranded benefits? What roles can existing and new distributed generation play in competitive markets? Does the nature of the T&D system provide niche opportunities especially in zones prone to higher locational costs and congestion charges?
· Analysis of distributed generation in ISO structures
· e.g. NYISO
· dispatchability and demand reducing measures
· Cost-based vs. market-based transmission and distribution rates
· The role of DistGen in an ESCO’s offering of competitive services
· To capitalize investment or ride with market prices

Ruben Brown, President, THE E CUBED COMPANY LLC

2:45 Exhibit Viewing & Networking Refreshment Break
3:05 DISTRIBUTED GENERATION INTERCONNECTION TO THE GRID: WHAT’S WORTH IT, & WHY
Distributed generation is often most useful when connected in parallel with the grid, particularly for achieving greater reliability. However this raises a host of issues including:
· Types and costs of various interconnection methods
· Economic evaluations of benefits vs. costs
· Factors influencing equipment requirements: Cost effective synchronization and switch gear equipment
· Parallel switching equipment to seamlessly connect generators to internal load
· Alternatives to traditional approaches

Lee Willis, Institute Fellow, Electric Systems Technology Institute, ABB SYSTEMS CONTROLS

3:35 TURNING EMERGENCY GENERATORS INTO DOLLARS!
Many factories, hospitals and office buildings have standby generators that are normally used only when there are power outages. Because the power seldom fails, these standby generators almost never go on-line. Therefore a significant amount of capital is tied up in idle equipment. The underlying economic strength of this strategy is in converting that idle equipment into increased capacity. From the utilities perspective, power generated at a customers site reduces load at peak times. It truly creates a win-win situation. This discussion covers the nuts and bolts of turning your emergency generating system into dollars including · Interconnectivity and control
· Advantages and opportunities
· Cost considerations
· Obstacles to overcome
· Step-by-step implementation
· Working with non-power regulatory agencies: EPA, Medical Licensing Bureau, etc.

4:05 AGGREGATION AND CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT
Currently most distributed resources are used as demand-side management tools by accident. Utilities have offered interruptible rates and customers have on their own controlled installed stand-by generators. To date little has been done to maximize the benefits fo both the utility and the customer. This session covers the communications infrastructure and control strategies to reap the most benefit from small, physical separated resources.
· How to aggregate and control smaller generator sets spread out at multiple locations to wheel power and provide ancillary
services as a single larger source in the power markets
· distributed resources as spinning reserve
· distributed resources as supplemental reserve
· distributed resources as a futures hedge
· distributed resources acting as voltage support
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· defined fixed cost of power and services to the customer

Jeff Whitham, President, ENCORP, INC.
Douglas W. Salter, Vice President-Engineering, ENCORP, INC.
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Day Two – Wednesday, April 29, 1998 – Boston
or Thursday May 7,1998 – Philadelphia

8:15 Continental Breakfast
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Kenneth S. Dee, President & CEO, GLOBAL ENERGY SOLUTIONS

9:00 A STRATEGY FOR RELIABLE AND ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????· How to become actively involved in developing DistGen policy and using feedback to identify gaps

Patricia Hoffman, Program Manager, Office of Industrial Technologies, US Department of ENERGY

9:40 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND ROLES OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????· Review of current and emerging technologies
· issues and opportunities for deployment of DistGen
· Examples of recent EPRI utility case studies
· EPRI’s integrated program

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????10:10 MARKET OUTLOOK & IMPACT FOR INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINES IN DISTRIBUTED, ON-SITE GENERATION
· New market forces: How the re-regulation of US markets is creating a resurgence for distributed generation · Understanding the economics involved when considering gas turbines
· costs vs. benefits
· when it makes sense and when it doesn’t
· Grasping the environmental impacts, issues and benefits of cogeneration and combined heat and power (CHP)
· Insights into the advanced turbine systems program

Richard Brent, Marketing Manager, Distributed Generation, SOLAR TURBINES INC.

10:40 Exhibit Viewing & Networking Refreshment Break

11:00 CUSTOMER CHOICE UTILIZING ON-SITE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION WITH DIESEL & SPARK-IGNITED RECIPROCATING ENGINE TECHNOLOGY
On-site power generation systems in various applications ranging from standby to load management to gas-engine chillers or heat recovery are being uses by customers today to reduce and control energy costs and improve reliability. This session shows you how to take advantage of these viable and manageable options:
· Using standby power as an insurance policy
· Economic case studies with interruptible and curtailable rate contracts
· When peak generation makes sense
· The feasibility of gas engine cooling vs. electric drives
· How to determine the economic viability of on-site generation with heat recovery
· Simple positive cash flow analysis – “The Acid Test”
· How to overcome environmental concerns for applying the product i.e. Sound and exhaust emissions, fuel storage
· Minimizing operational risk management with guaranteed maintenance contracts and limited constructions risks via complete factory systems
· Realizing the value of on-site generation systems

John Swanson, EPG Market Manager, CATERPILLAR INC.

11:45 AN END USER CASE STUDY: LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT ON-SITE GENERATION
· Thought processes behind the decisions: Steps to take before you get started
· Working with you local utility and local government
· Fuel supply and environmental issues and constraints
· Selecting the generation equipment to best meet your needs
· Estimating current and future loads
· Financial evaluations and follow-up techniques

Kurt Bresser, Facilities Manager, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia)
Christopher Curran, Operations Manager, ZAPCO/STOP & SHOP (Boston)

12:15 Luncheon for Speakers & Delegates

1:20 MAKING DISTRIBUTED GENERATION A REALITY: THE TURBOGENERATOR
· Understanding the global framework on the technical and commercial benefits of distributed power
· Understanding the “big picture” on DistGen and the alliance between Unicom and AlliedSignal
· Market drivers and commercial applications
· What are the challenges in implementing a distributed generation strategy?
· How the TurboGenerator™ works
· Understanding when and where this maybe the right choice for your company
· Determining the economics of implementation and return on investment
· What are some of the additional benefits of the TurboGenerator™?
· Where we stand now and visions of the future for distributed generation

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Christopher D. Maloney, Managing Director, Corporate Development, UNICOM CORPORATION

2:00 AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY FOR ENSURING ON-SITE POWER QUALITY: THE EMERGING ROLE OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (SMES)
· Avoiding power quality glitches: The “sleeper” problem of the high-tech age · Prospective changes in the grid due to deregulation of bulk generation · Alternatives and adjuncts to on-site generation: Batteries, flywheels, SMES · An overview of advances in superconductor technology
· SMES (superconducting magnetic energy storage):
· what is it?
· how does it work?
· what are the economics
· under what circumstances should it be considered?
· Case studies of SMES applications in the US and around the world

John B. Howe, Director, Electric Industry Affairs, AMERICAN SUPER CONDUCTOR CORPORATION (Former Chairman, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities)

2:30 ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING FOR ESTABLISHING A DISTRIBUTED POWER FACILITY
This talk present the critical issues confronting a facility manager attempting to establish or maintain a distributed generation facility.
· The critical elements for air permitting: What to watch out for · How location influences permits
· Understanding the various technology issues surrounding permitting
· Where to go and who to talk to get your permit
· what are governing agencies looking for and require from you
· Establishing a realistic time table · when to start
· what needs to be done and when
· Recognizing local issues and concerns

Bruce K. Maillet, Director of Air Resources, EMCON

3:10 Exhibit Viewing & Networking Refreshment Break

3:30 OUTSOURCING ON-SITE ENERGY ASSETS TO ALLOW YOU TO FOCUS ON YOUR CORE BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITIES
Industrial and commercial energy users are currently faced with many choices for reducing energy costs. From getting deregulation savings expectations, to energy project development, to outsourcing. This presentation allows energy users to evaluate the benefits of letting someone else manage your energy assets allowing you to focus on you core business plans.
· How much can your organization expect to save from energy deregulation
· Why a well-defined energy strategy produces lasting value
· Understanding how the energy development process works
· How the latest transaction structures work – and which ones benefit you the most
· Why the win-win transaction yields benefits long past initial development
· How to evaluate outsourcing of energy assets
· How to find energy efficiency and turn it into bottom-line value
· Navigating the politics of energy outsourcing

Charles M. O’Donnell. Project Manager – Development, TRIGEN-CINERGY SOLUTIONS LLC

4:00 GETTING STARTED: DEVELOPING DECISION CRITERIA AND DEFINING YOUR PROCESS
· Outsourcing defined: variations of outsourcing and what it can include
· Why outsource?
· business, organizational and financial considerations
· Is outsourcing right for your organization?
· evaluating organizational interests and opportunities
· Choosing an outside vendor
· What to look for and how to evaluate each vendor
· Developing your outsourcing vendor relationship: Long term benefits and how to get them

Brent Stanley, Vice President, TRIGEN HQ ENERGY SERVICES

4:30 CREATING AN “ENERGY ISLAND” WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION
· Alternative models for manufacturers and large industrial consumers weary or uncertain of:
· gas transportation issues
· future energy-related capital investment needs
· energy wheeling timing
· internal staffing needs and requirements
· Progressive development of a manufacturing energy strategy leading to facility ownership and operations by others
· How to form an “energy island”
· Understanding “energy island” economics
· Lessons learned from Simpson Company’s outsourcing of energy assets

Jackson Mueller, Energy Manager, SIMPSON INVESTMENT CO.

5:15 Conclusion of Conference

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