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Meeting Location and Fees:

PG&E Conference Center

245 Market Street (Conf Room A)
San Francisco, CA 94105
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The PG&E Conference Center is conveniently located adjacent to the Embarcadero BART Station. All-Day parking is available at near-by lots (such as Beale & Howard)
for approximately $10-$13/day.

DETAILS:
   8:00am      Check-In / Breakfast
   8:30am      Keynote Address
   9:00am      PANEL #1: Transmission
   10:45am    PANEL #2: Direct Access
   12:15pm    Luncheon Address   

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PANC Members:       $100
Non-Members:          $150
Govt Employees:      $75

Cancellation Policy:
Cancellation without charge is accepted up to 24 hours prior to the event. No-shows or cancellations less than 24 hours before the event are non-refundable.

    

Past Event Speakers

PANC Annual Seminar

PANC 2010

Annual Seminar
Monday, April 19
PG&E Conference Center
San Francisco, CA

  PROGRAM AGENDA   
   
8:00am       Registration Opens /Continental Breakfast

8:30am       KEYNOTE ADDRESS:   

                  MELISSA JONES, Executive Director
                  California Energy Commission

                  Ms. Jones has worked at the Energy Commission since 1977 and has a strong grasp of
                  the energy issues facing California. She has program experience in electricity supply and
                  demand analysis, transmission line infrastructure planning and permitting issues, natural
                  gas supply and demand forecasts, transportation fuels, energy research and development
                  and renewable energy.
    

9:00am       PANEL 1:  Transmission Certainty in an Uncertain World

                  Can we build it? Where it is needed? At what cost? Can interconnection be streamlined?
                  Hear a panel of experts representing Utilities, Independent transmission developers/
                  owners, IPP’s, and siting authorities discuss the issues and potential solutions to the
                  daunting challenges in today’s transmission world.

                  Guest Panelists:
                  KEVIN DASSO, Senior Director, Engineering/Operations
                  Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

                  CHRISTIAN HACKETT, Senior Developer
                  Pattern Energy Group LP

                  ROBERT JENKINS, Director, Transmission & Interconnection
                  First Solar

                  MARK HESTERS, Senior Transmission Planner
                  California Energy Commission

 

10:30am     Break


10:45am     PANEL 2:  Direct Access: Past, Present & Future

                  This panel will examine the history of direct access in California: the original enabling
                  legislation, early experience, suspension of the program following the energy crisis,
                  efforts to continue direct access and reopen the market, SB695 implementation, and
                  the prospect for complete reopening of the program in the future.

                  Guest Panelists:
                  DAN DOUGLASS, Partner
                  Douglass & Liddell

                  ANDREA MORRISON, Director, Regulatory Affairs
                  Direct Energy Services, LLC

                  LEN PETTIS, Chief of Plant, Energy & Utilities
                  California State University


12:15pm      LUNCHEON ADDRESS: The State of Wind Energy in California   

                  NANCY RADER, Executive Director
                  California Wind Energy Association

                  Hear about the opportunities and challenges (both transmission and regulatory related)
                  for wind energy in California. Nancy will also offer us a prospectus for the future.


1:30pm       Seminar Adjourns