NYEW 2014

Monday16 June 2014

5:30pm

New York Energy Week Opening Ceremony

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The NYEW Opening Ceremony will provide an opening address and convocation from New York State’s most influential energy regulatory decision makers. The state will examine the regulatory framework and policy mechanisms New York is implementing to increase the adoption of cost competitive renewable energy, highlighting the new challenges and opportunities these measures present to electric utilities.

Alfred Griffin, President, New York Green Bank
Angelique Mercurio, Founder & CEO, EnerKnol
Audrey Zibelman, Chair, New York Public Service Commission
Emily Bjorklund, Chief Marketing Officer, EnerKnol
Gil Quiniones, President & CEO, NYPA
John McAvoy, President & CEO, Con Edison
John Rhodes, President & CEO, NYSERDA
Kenneth D. Daly, President, National Grid

Moderated by Jessi Hempel, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine

Hosted by Con Edison

8:00am

NYEW Breakfast Series: Natural Gas Markets

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New York has a powerful history as a crossroads for the oil and gas business, and the sector will gather to kick off New York Energy Week 2014 with a panel examining the extraordinary shift in fossil fuel economics in recent years, its impact on business and political relationships, and the central role of the Northeastern US in an emerging new oil and gas reality. With surging US production prompting expectations for shifting use of regional refineries, in pipelines that serve global markets and through transformation of infrastructure, the possibilities for the New York energy community in working with regulators, investors and other stakeholders through financial innovation, creative project management and technology advancement is extraordinary.

Joseph Bohm, President, Dual Fuel Corporation
Carolyn Kissane, Academic Director and Clinical Associate Professor, Energy and Environment Concentration Director, New York University
Branko Terzic, Former CEO & Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Moderated by Peter Gardett, Founding Editor, Breaking Energy

Welcoming remarks by Gary Morsches, Managing Director – Global Energy, CME Group

Hosted by CME Group

Tuesday17 June 2014

8:00am

NYEW Breakfast Series: Solar

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The NYEW Solar Breakfast will address how New York and the Northeast can increase their installed solar MW output 3-10x by 2020 and the finance and technology innovations needed in order for that to happen.

Karen Hamilton, Director of Residential Energy Services, NYSERDA
Elias Hinckley, Clean Energy Lawyer & Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Laurence Mackler, Founder & CEO, Solaire Generation
Jigar Shah, Founder & Former CEO, SunEdison, LLC and CEO, Carbon War Room

Moderated by Janet Lin, Head of Research and Product, EnerKnol

Welcoming remarks by Rick Tallman, Chairman, Main Street Power

Hosted by Morgan Stanley

2:00 pm

Energy Efficiency Roundtable: NYC 2.0 Sustainable City

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New York City is a city of buildings. With nearly 50,000 buildings in Manhattan alone, New York has the potential to lead global energy efficiency innovation and evolution required to sustain our built environment. The NYEW Smart Cities & Energy Efficiency panel will discuss the technologies and innovations New York is adopting, or could adopt, in order to make the city more resilient and to meet environmental objectives. Panelists will also examine the financing and policies required to support these objectives, and some of the most innovative neighborhood and building models being proposed to do so.

Reid Capalino, Senior Energy Advisor, Capalino+Company
Posie Constable, Director, Clean Heat Finance, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation
Robert Schimmenti, Vice President, Engineering & Planning, Con Edison

Moderated by Rory Christian, Director of New York Clean Energy, Environmental Defense Fund

Welcoming remarks by Richard Yancey, Executive Director, Green Light New York

Hosted by Green Light New York

5:30pm

NYEW Evening Series: Commodities & Energy Data

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The commodities business is being revolutionized by better and faster access to market information. New hardware technology and real-time analytics can give market makers precise insight into the flow of energy commodities, current storage, grid and pipeline capacities, and even sharper insight to the regulatory information that impacts energy markets and trading. This panel of industry leaders will seek to examine how commodities markets, companies, regulators and consumers best handle the accelerating change in data availability and the pressing need for better actionable analysis. And, with all of this technology and access to what was previously proprietary information, what is truly new about big data in commodities markets, and what is just hype?

Michael Cohen, Lead North America Energy Analyst, Barclays
Angelique Mercurio, Founder & CEO, EnerKnol
Jim Newsome, Former President & CEO, New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Former Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Moderated by Kevin Book, Managing Director, Research, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC

Welcoming remarks by Scott LeBouef, Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Hosted by Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Wednesday18 June 2014

8:00am

NYEW Breakfast Series: Transportation

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The NYEW Transportation Breakfast will examine the crossroads of technology innovation, infrastructure development, and policy support required to implement electric vehicle usage on a large scale. Thought leaders from all three areas will examine how organizations are managing variable energy costs within their fleet delivery service lines and the supporting innovations in infrastructure and government policy needed for adoption.

Auke Hoekstra, Strategic Energy Transition, Alliander
Tod Hynes, Founder & President, XL Hybrids
Jeremy McCool, Founder & CEO, HEVO Power
Richard Drake, Manager – Research and Development, NYSERDA

Moderated by Kristin Barbato, Vice President, Customer Energy Solutions, NYPA

Policy backdrop presented by Erin Carson, Senior Policy Advisor, EnerKnol

Welcoming remarks by Christine Weydig, Deputy Director for Energy and Utilities Management, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Hosted by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

1:00pm

NYEW Energy Data Jam
In association with the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Open Data Initiative

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In association with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Open Data Initiative, the NYEW Energy Data Jam will bring together 50 New York-based business leaders, entrepreneurs, state and federal officials, academics and investors to brainstorm new ways to use the government’s open data to solve pressing energy problems.

Moderated by Sarah Backhouse, Founder & CEO, Future360

Policy backdrop presented by Erin Carson, Senior Policy Advisor, EnerKnol

Welcoming remarks by Bob Wyman, Technical Staff, Google

Hosted by Google

5:30pm

NYEW Cleantech Startups Showcase
In association with NYC ACRE, NECEC and Cleantech Open Northeast

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The Cleantech Startups Showcase will feature 40+ of the most innovative and exciting cleantech companies developing groundbreaking, carbon-reducing technologies. A handful of those companies will compete pitch-style in front of the live audience, and have an opportunity to win an Audience Award and Judges Award. This will be a rare opportunity to see many high quality, cutting edge cleantech companies from the Northeast (and some international) all in one place, and meet the founders who are making it all happen. The ESF team is partnering with the Northeast’s top organizations working in cleantech – including NECEC Institute, NYC ACRE, PowerbridgeNY, and Cleantech Open Northeast – to make this event a can’t-miss regional summit for investors and startups alike.

Keynote address by Arthur Orduna, Chief Innovation Officer & Senior Vice President, ADT Corporation

Judging Panel
Joe Daniels, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Erika Diamond, Senior Vice President, Community Solutions, Recyclebank
Jeanne Dworetzky, Assistant General Counsel, Exelon Corporation
Tom Ryan, Chief Operating Officer, Archer Gray LLC

Hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences
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Thursday19 June 2014

8:00am

NYEW Breakfast Series: Women in Power & Energy
In association with WNEET

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The NYEW Women in Energy Breakfast will feature a lineup of powerful female energy executives who are pioneers in their industries. The panelists will share the experiences and lessons that have attributed to their professional achievements and successful leadership in the companies they lead. This event is aimed to provide advice and inspiration to the next generation of women energy leaders.

Katherine Boden, Vice President, Gas Operations, Con Edison
Susan Fleck, Vice President, National Grid
Dr. Cheryl Martin, Acting Director, ARPA-E

Moderated by Emily Bjorklund, Chief Marketing Officer, EnerKnol

Welcoming remarks by Patricia G. Hammes, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Hosted by Shearman & Sterling LLP
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2:00pm

NYEW Roundtable on Storage: Grid Resiliency

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Storage is quickly becoming the linchpin technology to a resilient and efficient power supply system. Energy storage has the potential to change the strain and risk incurred by our current demand response cycle which requires that electricity be consumed the moment it is produced. Effective storage technology can change the way renewables are integrated into the grid and provide backup power for communities and microgrids. The NYEW Storage Roundtable will examine current policy that is moving energy storage development and what current technologies can participate in these new environments; specifically NY, CA, PJM, and Texas.

Jae Choi, Product & Application Manager, Fiamm Energy Storage Solutions
Bob Currie, Technical Director & Founder, Smarter Grid Solutions Ltd
Chelle Izzi, Director, Storage Commercialization, Constellation Energy
Bill Radvak, President & CEO, American Vanadium Corporation

Moderated by John Cerveny, Director of Resource Development, NY-BEST

Policy backdrop presented by Erin Carson, Senior Policy Advisor, EnerKnol

Welcoming remarks by David Gilford, Vice President & Director, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Emily Wheeler, Deputy Director – New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Resilient Economy (NYC ACRE), Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Hosted by Urban Future Lab
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5:30pm

NYEW Closing Ceremony: Global Power Markets: Reform & The Future Utility

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The 2014 Closing Ceremony will examine power market reform on a global scale. Panelists will discuss the utility’s shifting role in a distributed generation economy and the reform required to support technological advances in power generation. The discussion will be lead by the utilities, power companies and policy makers who are examining and pioneering paths towards change. Comprised of noteworthy public and private sector figures representing different nations and US states, the panel will serve as a continuation of the agenda set forth by New York state during Monday’s Opening Ceremony.

Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York, Office of the Governor of New York
Christopher Faulkner, President & CEO, Brietling Energy
Peter Molengraaf, CEO, Alliander

Moderated by Sergej Mahnovski, Director, Utility of the Future, Con Edison

Welcoming remarks by Sarah A. W. Fitts, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Hosted by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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Friday20 June 2014

11:30am

MIT Alumni Club of NY: Energy Plant Tour

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Tour given by Donald Chahbazpour, Director of Network Strategy & Gas Systems Engineering, National Grid

Location: The National Grid Newtown Creek Facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

All Day

Student Energy Day

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Friday is officially Student Energy Day! We are proud to partner with Student Energy for their North American Student Energy Summit in New York City. Register here for the Summit and receive 40% off your ticket price with promo code “NYEW”. For more information on free tickets for students, contact jtran@studentenergy.org.

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