EM&V Forum

9:30 am: Registration Opens

10:00 – 10:15 am: Welcome

• Joe Desmond, Executive Director, CEDMC

10:15 – 11:00 am: Market Transformation – The Big Picture

Which markets are ripe for transformation and can work towards achieving the State’s clean energy, climate, equity, and resiliency goals? What are the differences and commonalities between strategic planning to meet goals, and programs to transform specific markets and end-uses? How can the industry support and evaluate decarbonization, electrification, and other energy and climate efforts? How can market transformation strategies help overcome differences in segment visions, barriers, and necessary technologies? Hear directly from the new California Market Transformation Administrator and other experts in this opening session.

• Moderator: Jay Luboff, Principal, Jay Luboff Consulting, LLC
• Margie Gardner, Vice President of Market Transformation, Resource Innovations
• Abhi Wadhwa, Senior Analyst – Building Decarbonization/Climate Adaptation, CPUC

11:00 am – 12:10 pm: Innovation in Energy Efficiency Programs and Policy

What Does Innovation Look Like and How Do We Measure it?

• How are Program Administrators, developers, and implementers navigating innovation? How can the industry drive policies that reward innovation rather than punish risk?
• What implications, challenges, and opportunities have arisen in the changing policy and program landscape? How to identify challenges and leverage opportunities when they are rapidly changing. What is the industry doing differently to adapt?
• Practitioners’ perspectives of the relevance of different methods for evaluating programs. What does the industry need to change, do we need a new evaluation guidebook?

• Moderator: Jarred Metoyer, Senior Vice President/Managing Director, DNV
• Megan Campbell, Senior Vice President, Opinion Dynamics
• Christopher Healey, Director of Utility Regulatory Affairs, Enervee
• Dr. Liza Legaspi, Behavior Programs and Financing Products Segment Supervisor, SoCalGas
• Dulane Moran, Principal/Research and Evaluation, Cadeo Group
• Tami Rasmussen, Senior Vice President, Evergreen Economics
• Jeorge Tagnipes, Supervisor, CPUC (via Zoom)

12:10 – 1:10 pm: Lunch Break 

1:10 – 1:50 pm: Market Access Programs (MAP) 

Review EM&V plans, challenges, methods, and opportunities with the Market Access Program offered across the utilities and other load serving entities.

• Moderator: Coby Rudolph, Senior Regulatory Analyst, CPUC
• Alison Erlenbach, Lead, Meter-based Energy Efficiency, PG&E
• Jennifer Kreutzer, Senior Customer Programs Manager, MCE
• Brian Maloney, Senior Portfolio Advisor, Southern California Edison
• David Sagara, Managing Director, Mendota Group representing SDG&E’s Summer Reliability Market Access Program

1:50 – 2:35 pm: Measurement, Data Access and Analytics – A Look Ahead

This session will address emerging issues related to baselines, data access, submetering, and measurement among newer and emerging technology and programs. What works? What doesn’t? And what new data services and analytic tools are expected to be available in the next few years to ensure M&V remains up-to-date alongside modernizing programs.

• Moderator: Joe Desmond, Executive Director, CEDMC
• Kari Binley, Senior Manager, Energy Partnerships, ecobee
• Jason Harville, Director for Energy Data and Analytics, CEC

2:35 – 2:55 pm: Networking Break

2:55 – 3:40 pm: Normalized Metered Energy Consumption

Through a series of technical presentations, experts will discuss NMEC methods and applications of this methodology as it applies to various programs. Recommendations on how to account for differences between electricity and natural gas applications will be discussed in detail.

• Moderator: Carmen Best, Vice President, Policy and Emerging Markets, Recurve
• Justin Kjeldsen, Regional Director, Franklin Energy
• Kevin Ehsani, EM&V Supervisor, SoCalGas
• David Jump, Director, kW Engineering

3:40 – 4:20 pm: Metrics for Evaluating Programs and New Initiatives

What are the metrics to track new initiatives and technology performance? What do those metrics mean for bill and rate impacts? How can Distributional Equity Analysis (DEA) help track the state’s progress for equity issues in disadvantaged communities?

• Moderator: Clark McIsaac, Director of Policy and Strategy, CEDMC
• Anna Frankowski Nelson, Project Manager II, Energy Solutions
• Dr. Ellen Steiner, Vice President, Opinion Dynamics
• Steve Schiller, Principal, Schiller Consulting and Founder, CEDMC

4:20 – 4:45 pm: Open Mic

Now it’s your turn! Is your pet idea not on today’s agenda? Bring it and make a 2-minute pitch that we can consider for a “deep dive” in an upcoming Council event or meeting.

• Moderator: Joe Desmond, Executive Director, CEDMC

4:45 – 6:30 pm: Networking Reception