CESA 14th Annual Market Development Forum - Program

OCTOBER 17-18, 2023 - PROGRAM

CESA’s 14th Annual Market Development Forum

14th Annual Market Development Forum

Annual Market Development Forum Oct 17-18, 2023 | David Brower Center | Berkeley, CA CESA’s 14th Annual Market Development Forum (MDF), taking place on October 17-18, in Berkeley, CA. MDF is an invite-only gathering of the energy storage ecosystem, including regulators, utilities, and CESA members, focused on how energy storage will support California’s decarbonization and grid reliability goals. 100+ CESA industry leaders will be gathering in-person for business networking opportunities and an insightful, educational program on safety permitting, long-duration energy storage, integrated resource planning, resource adequacy, distributed storage, interconnection, and more.

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Preliminary Program

MDF 2023 Day 1 | October 17, 2023 TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:30 pm

Member Registration Opens

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Annual CESA Member Meeting (CESA Members Only) In this member-only session, CESA will introduce its new staff to members and discuss its strategic priorities for 2024.

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Coffee Break and Non-member Registration

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Spotlight on Safety Significant strides have been made to ensure the safe deployment of utility-scale energy storage. This panel will feature a discussion by experts about how lessons learned are helping to inform the safe deployment and operations of existing and emerging energy storage technologies and how safety is a fundamental aspect of bringing these technologies to market.

Mike Gravely, Advisor to Chair Hochschild, CEC Dr. Babu Chalamala, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Lab Crystal L. Sujeski, Division Chief (acting) Code Development & Analysis, Office of the State Fire Marshall Albert Lopez, Planning Director, Alameda County Bobby Ruiz, Ret. Fire Chief, Energy Storage Specialist, Hiller Companies Moderator: Cara Martinson, Public House Consulting

4:00 - 4:30 pm

Closing Keynote Mr. Bohan will discuss the Energy Commission’s vision of the growing contribution of energy storage to California’s power mix and the Energy Commission’s programs that support storage R&D and deployment.

Drew Bohan, Executive Director, CEC

4:30 - 4:45 pm

Wrap-up

Scott Murtishaw, Executive Director, CESA

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Opening Reception: Study Hall Rooftop Lounge at the Residence Inn

Scott Murtishaw, CESA Rachel McMahon, CESA Catherine Smith, Smith Moore Associates Cara Martinson, Public House Consulting Don Tretheway, GDS Associates

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14th Annual Market Development Forum MDF 2023 Day 2 | October 18, 2023 TIME

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SESSION

SPEAKERS

8:00 - 8:45 am

Breakfast and Registration

8:45 - 9:00 am

Welcome & Introductions

Scott Murtishaw, Executive Director, CESA Tim Hemig, CESA Board Chair

9:00 -10:00 am

Innovations for Storage on the Distribution System This panel of experts from state government and industry will explore the potential for storage on the distribution system, and new innovations in program design and storage applications.

Gabriel Petlin, Grid Planning and Reliability, CPUC Boaz Ur, Chief Business Development Officer, Nostromo Katie Guerry, Senior VP, Convergent Energy & Power Erik Lyon, Advisor to Vice Chair Gunda, CEC Achintya Madduri, Retail Rates, CPUC Moderator: Rachel McMahon, VP of Policy, CESA

10:00 - 10:20 am

Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:15 am

Gearing Up for 2045: Reforming Transmission Processes to Increase Transmission Capacity and Interconnect New Resources During this session, attendees will hear the researcher, policymaker, and practitioner perspectives on streamlining the development of new transmission capacity and facilitating the interconnection of the enormous quantity of resources to meet state policy objectives.

Ashwini Mani, Supervisor, Transmission Interconnection Planning, PG&E Danielle Mills, Principal, Energy Infrastructure Policy Development, CAISO Molly Sterkel, Manager, Electric Planning and Market Design, CPUC Will Gorman, Research Scientist, Electricity Policy and Markets, LBNL Moderator: Don Tretheway, GDS Associates

11:15 - 12:00 pm

California’s Clean Energy Leadership Ms. Hironaka and Mr. Grant will discuss Governor Newsom’s energy policy priorities to keep California at the forefront of clean energy and storage development.

Christine Hironaka, Deputy Cabinet Secretary Grant Mack, Deputy Legislative Secretary

12:00 - 1:15 pm

Networking Luncheon

1:15 - 1:45 pm

Federal Support for Long-Duration Energy Storage Ms. Khan will present the latest updates on DOE research and support for non-lithium energy storage technologies.

Nyla Khan, Systems and Materials Engineer, Energy Storage Division, Office of Electricity, DOE

Preliminary Program

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SPEAKERS

1:45 - 2:30 pm

The Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in the Grid of the Future Panelists will discuss the latest research on LDES technologies, state and federal support of LDES, and industry efforts to educate policymakers in the US and abroad about the benefits LDES can provide as power supplies are decarbonized. Experts will weigh in on critical materials required to grow LDES domestic supply chains. The panel will deliver perspective on likely technological development scenarios and help the audience understand the need for market evolution based on the expected LDES performance requirements.

Nyla Khan, DOE Gabe Murtaugh, Director of Markets and Technology, LDES Council Andrew Maxson, Senior Program Manager, EPRI Erik Stokes, Chief of Staff to Comr Gallardo, CEC Moderator: Matt Smith, GDS Associates

2:30 - 3:15 pm

CAISO Perspectives on the Evolving Role of Storage in Electricity Markets Professor Borenstein and Ms. Robinson will provide an overview of CAISO’s efforts to better integrate storage into the wholesale market, the implications of regionalization, and specific initiatives CAISO is undertaking to facilitate the optimal operations of storage assets on the CAISO grid.

Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Chair in Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business and member, CAISO Board of Governors Becky Robinson, Principal Economist and Director of Market Strategy and Governance, CAISO

3:15 - 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:15 pm

Planning to Meet California’s Clean Energy and Reliability Goals California will need thousands of MW of storage capacity in the next two decades to operate a low-carbon grid reliably. This panel will discuss the quantities and types of storage recent research indicates will be needed, the CPUC’s vision for ensuring that load-serving entities are on track to procure clean energy and storage at a sufficient pace, and the changing resource requirements and counting rules that load-serving entities are adapting to.

Nathan Barcic, Supervisor, Integrated Resources Planning, CPUC Mike O’Boyle, Senior Director, Electricity, Energy Innovation Peter Griffes, Chief, Comprehensive Market Design, PG&E Moderator: Scott Murtishaw, CESA

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14th Annual Market Development Forum

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

4:15 - 4:45 pm

Procuring the Storage Needed to Maintain a Reliable Grid as California Decarbonizes Its Grid In this panel we’ll hear how load-serving entities are adjusting to the evolving procurement frameworks and how the Legislature’s approval of a central procurement entity may influence their procurement strategies.

Alex Morris, General Manager, California Community Power Vidhi Chawla, Interim VP of Power Resources, MCE Clean Energy Moderator: Scott Murtishaw, CESA

4:45 - 5:00 pm

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Scott Murtishaw, CESA

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Happy Hour at the David Brower Center

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Board Dinner

Speaker Bios

Drew Bohan is the executive director of the California Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is leading the state to a 100 percent clean energy future. He has served Californians for more than 15 years. His public service includes leadership roles with the Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean Protection Council, and the California Department of Conservation.

He served as the executive director of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, chief counsel to the House of Delegates in the Republic of Palau, and a litigation attorney at Heller Ehrman in San Francisco.

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Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and faculty director of the Energy Institute at Haas. He is also Director emeritus of the University of California Energy Institute (1994-2014). He received his AB from UC Berkeley and PhD in Economics from MIT. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline industries, and electricity markets. His current research projects include the economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse gases, and alternative models of retail electricity pricing. Borenstein is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He served on the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003. During 1999-2000, he was a member of the California Attorney General’s Gasoline Price Task Force. In 2010-11, Borenstein was a member of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood’s Future of Aviation Advisory Committee. In 2012-13, he served on the Emissions Market Assessment Committee, which advised the California Air Resources Board on the operation of California’s Cap and Trade market for greenhouse gases. In 2014, he was appointed to the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, which he chaired from 2015 until the Committee was dissolved in 2017. Since 2015, he has served on the Advisory Council of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. In 2019, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the California Independent System Operator.

Christine Hironaka was appointed Deputy Cabinet Secretary in 2019 by Governor Gavin Newsom. Hironaka has most recently served as Deputy Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA). Prior to joining CalEPA, Christine served as Assistant Director for Policy Development at the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), where she previously served as Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs. She also served as a legislative assistant in the Office of State Senator Mark Leno, and as a capital fellow in the Office of State Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny.

Nyla Khan, Systems and Materials Engineer, Energy Storage Division, Office of Electricity, DOE Grant Mack, Deputy Legislative Secretary Becky Robinson is a Principal Economist at the California ISO, where she focuses on market policy and performance. Prior to joining the ISO, Becky had roles at Vistra Corp and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, including as an advisor to Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur.

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