ADVANCED ENERGY 2009 NEW YORK STAte’s Premier coNFERENCE FOR ADVANCED ENERGY Hyatt Regency Hotel and confeRence centeR • Hauppauge • new yoRk • uSa CONFERENCE PROGRAM ADVA NCED ENERGY CONFERENCE 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis ADVA NCED ENERGY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTER www.aertc.org Advanced Energy Conference 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis WELCOME TO ADVANCED ENERGY 2009 Welcome to the most important conference you will attend this year on the most important subject on our national agenda. If you are reading this on November 18 or 19, 2009, at Advanced Energy 2009, you don’t need anyone else to tell you why energy is the crucial challenge facing humanity today. You get it and you are here for answers, ideas and new questions. You’ve come to the right place. Last year’s conference was the biggest such event ever held in New York State to address this critical issue, and Advanced Energy 2009 has leaped far ahead of it. We have had to enlarge the event to two full days this year because there simply weren’t enough hours in one day to fit all 189 energy subject matter experts. We have organized the speakers into thirty-five ses- sions in five different tracks so you may explore a rich diversity of subjects and technologies. We are especially pleased to partner with the U.S. Department of Energy for a half-day portion of the schedule in which DOE representatives will showcase advanced national programs from the Office of Science, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the Office of Electricity. These nationally important topics include Superconductivity and the Smart Grid, Climate Measurement and Modeling, Basic Science for Advanced Energy, and Renewable Energy Science. We salute the five New York State Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that DOE awarded earlier this year. These programs exemplify the intellectual leadership and science- based technological innovation our state and our nation must cultivate and nurture to compete in the energy industry of the 21st Century. The Smart Grid, as a subset of a larger Smart Infrastructure, is a major aspect of this industrial transformation. The consumption of energy to support the information infrastructure that has mushroomed over the last two decades – from mainframes to minicomputers to desktops to huge networks accessing huge data centers through private networks as well as the Internet, and billions of interconnected wireless devices – has not been matched on the energy industry’s side by a parallel use of information technology to monitor and manage the grow- ing energy supply to feed this insatiable demand. Making the electric power grid “smart” enough not only to cope effectively with projected growth curves, but also to meet the challenge of integrating alternative and renewable sources seamlessly into the grid, will require the application of new computer, telecommunications and micro-nano-electronics technologies to manage, protect and optimize the power network: • To monitor and report the status of millions of new and emerging data points, from Smart Meters in homes and businesses to Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEV’s), to sensors on electric transmission lines to remote control devices at substations to complex interactive systems at generating plants • To recognize needs and initiate corrective actions – and to increase system reliability – with automation • To forecast demand patterns and “learn” to adjust the forecasts by incorporating huge volumes of detailed new data on usage and supplies • To optimize the use of energy assets, allowing for weather effects with detailed real-time information • To integrate intermittent and distributed generation and storage resources • To protect the grid’s two-way communications and information systems against attack by providing state-of-the-art Cybersecurity systems and to enable customers to make per- sonal energy-cost choices and exercise unprecedented control over their energy usage ADVA NCED ENERGY CONFERENCE 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis ADVA NCED ENERGY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTER www.aertc.org Advanced Energy Conference 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis The challenges are of historic proportions, but so are the possibilities. As a direct outgrowth of last year’s conference and with substantial guidance from NYSTAR and NYSERDA, we are pleased to have taken an active role in the creation of the New York State Smart Grid Consortium, which will be an unprecedented, and we believe unparalleled, collaboration of all of the state’s major power producers and distributors, the Independent System Operator, the Public Service Commission, the New York Power Authority, the NYSERDA and NYSTAR arms of NYS, along with leading industry suppliers, universi- ties, and research institutions to help focus the efforts of these key constituencies for Smart Grid technology development, deployment, implementation, and enhancement. To put it bluntly, we want to ensure New York an impregnable position and early and rapid deployment in the vanguard of the biggest technology revolution in the energy industry in more than a hundred years. The Consortium, which is housed in the Advanced Energy Center, is working statewide with industry and government to establish major test-bed facilities for the pre-deployment testing and validation of new Smart Grid technologies. We expect this testing facility at the AEC to fill a critical gap for utilities as they demand that these technologies demonstrate their “safety and efficacy” before being installed in millions of homes and places of business. This conference, where we will all be able to dig deeply into these profoundly important issues, could not take place without the generous support of our humbling large number of sponsors, who have given unstintingly not only of their tangible resources but also of their knowledge and expertise to help create a program whose content will have lasting value to all participants, from entry level explorers to experienced practitioners. You will see the sponsors’ names in print, in electronic form and in various places around the conference venue, but we want to recognize them directly here: HOST SPONSORS PLATINUM SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS IBM CA Henry Schein National Grid LIPA Topspin Partners NYPA NYSERDA Sanna Mattson MacLeod Stony Brook Verizon Zone 5 BNL/DOE We also wish to acknowledge the extraordinary support the Advanced Energy Center has received from our state government, Governor David A. Paterson, and particularly the Long Island delegation to the New York State Senate, in- cluding Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and Ranking Member of the Senate Higher Education Committee Kenneth P. LaValle. Without their vision and strong leadership, the AEC’s Platinum LEED facility would not be rising right now as the second building in the Research and Development Park on Stony Brook University’s campus. With our best wishes for effective energy research and early and rapid deployment, Robert B. Catell John Kelly Yacov Shamash Conference Co-Chair Conference Co-Chair Conference Co-Chair Chairman Senior Vice President Vice President for Economic Advanced Energy Center IBM Development and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Stony Brook University ADVA NCED ENERGY CONFERENCE 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis ADVA NCED ENERGY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTER www.aertc.org Advanced Energy Conference 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis AERTC ADVISORY BOARD Mr. Robert B. Catell Mr. Francis J. Murray, Jr. Chairman President & CEO Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) NYSERDA Mr. Michael L. Faltischek Mr. Ed Reinfurt General Counsel, AERTC Executive Director Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. NYSTAR Dr. Samuel Aronson Dr. Yacov Shamash, Laboratory Director Office of the Vice President for Economic Development Brookhaven National Laboratory Stony Brook University Mr. Russell Artzt Dr. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr. Executive VP, R & D Administration President CA Stony Brook University Mr. Gene Bernstein Mr. Paul J. Tonna Northville Industries Executive Director The Energeia Partnership Mr. George W. Bilicic Vice Chairman Mr. Bob Venero U.S. Investment Banking and Chairman President of Power Utilities and Infrastructure Future Tech Enterprise, Inc. Lazard Ltd. Mr. Thomas E. Vice Ms. Diane D. Brink Sector Vice President Vice President Northrop Grumman Corporation IBM Corporate Marketing Mr. Lawrence J. Waldman, CPA Mr. James T. Gallagher Holtz, Rubenstein, Reminick Sr. V.P. for Energy Policy - - - - - - - - - - - - NY City Economic Development Corporation The Honorable Robert E. Curry, Jr. Dr. Jerry M. Hultin Special Advisor, AERTC President Commissioner Polytechnic University NY State Public Service Commission - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. W. Hubert Keen President Mr. Jack A. Kramer Farmingdale State College Consultant, AERTC Mr. Richard M. Kessel Dr. Miriam Rafailovich President & CEO Chief Scientist New York Power Authority AERTC Stony Brook University Dr. Henry Laufer Chief Scientist Mr. Jim Smith Renaissance Technologies Advanced Energy Center, AERTC Stony Brook University Mr. Kevin S. Law President & CEO Long Island Power Authority Mr. Stephen (Gene) E. Martin President Energy Development Group, LLC ADVA NCED ENERGY CONFERENCE 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis Marketing and Conference Promotion by Sanna Mattson MacLeod ADVA NCED ENERGY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY CENTER www.aertc.org Advanced Energy Conference 2008 Solutions to a Global Crisis A WORD FROM OUR HOSTS “We are proud to be a host sponsor of Advanced Energy 2009, an event