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Program Chair:
Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Transmission, Invenergy, LLC

(A special meeting is scheduled in conjunction with this workshop. Click here to see the schedule.)

	Tuesday, March 17

7:30 AM
Registration & Exhibits Open
Location: Cottonwood Foyer

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM 
Continental Breakfast
Location: Cottonwood Foyer

*NEW* Networking Activities: Please stop by our member services table located in the Cottonwood Foyer to pick up your company type ribbon to help facilitate networking throughout this event. There will be multiple breaks and a reception providing networking opportunities to you as a workshop attendee and the company type ribbons will make it easier than ever to identify the attendees you most want to meet while at the event.
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8:30 am - 9:15 am
Overview, Challenges, and Policy Environment

• U.S. Wind Overview
• Insight into the Stimulus Package
• Transmission challenges from a developers perspective
• Stimulus Package
• Big picture of expected new transmission

Speakers:
Don Furman, Senior Vice President Business, Iberdrola Renewables
Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Transmission, Invenergy, LLC
Rob Gramlich, Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
Matthew Kaplan, Analyst, Emerging Energy Research
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9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Interconnection Queues

• New RTO queue policies
• Financial commitments, milestones, and rights
• What constitutes material modification during the interconnection study process?

Moderator:
Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Transmission, Invenergy, LLC

Speakers:
Eric Laverty, Senior Manager of Transmission Access Planning, Midwest ISO

Midwest ISO Generator Interconnection Queue Reform

• Queue process and physics reform
• Queue policy information

Kevin Porter, Principal, Exeter Associates

Generation Interconnection Policies and Wind Power

• FERC Interconnection Policies to Date
• Growth in Generator Interconnection Applications
• RTO Reform Initiatives and Implications for Wind Power

Mike Jacobs, Vice President, Transmission, First Wind

Developer’s View of Transmission – Revisited

• Interconnection Queue Reform
• Transmission Expansion
• Reliability Expectations

Steve Herling, Vice President, Transmission, PJM Interconnection, LLC

PJM Interconnection Process Reform

• Interconnection Process Challenges
• Recent Process Changes
• Wind Integration Issues

A total of 4-15 minute presentations followed
by a 30 minute Q & A session
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10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Break & Exhibits
Location: Cottonwood Foyer

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11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote Panel

Energy Policy & Transmission in the Southwest Power Pool
The Southwest Power Pool is home to some of the richest wind resource areas in the United States. However, until recently development has lagged behind other regions due to a variety of factors including transmission hurdles, a lack of incentives for the use of wind energy by utilities in the region and uncertainty as to attitudes toward wind development by Governors, legislators, regulators and utilities in the region. Find out why these factors may be may be changing, what improvements need to be made and what policies will help facilitate the advancement of wind development in the region.

Moderator:
Hans Detweiler, Manager of State Legislation and Policy,
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Speakers:
Steve Gaw, Policy Director, The Wind Coalition
Michael Moffet, Commissioner, Kansas Corporation Commission
Robert Clayton III, Chairman, Missouri Public Service Commission
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12:00 PM –1:30 PM
Lunch
Location: Leatherwood Ballroom
Sponsored by ENGlobal Land and Regulatory

*NEW* Networking Activities: AWEA is offering structured networking opportunities at lunch. There will be multiple break-out groups meeting for informal discussions during this time. You are welcome to join any of the informal discussion groups. Please look for discussion group names on the tables during lunch. We will have the following discussion groups:

• Policy Environment
• Legal Issues
• Technical Advances
• Interconnection Standards
• Northwest Regional Issues
• Great Plains Regional Issues
• Texas Issues
• Grid Integration

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1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Legal Issues with Transmission

• The Federal Policy Debate Regarding Building Transmission for Renewables
• What is the current state of Federal law?
• What are the drivers for changing Federal law?
• What are the policy changes under consideration?
• Making Transmission Products Work for Wind Projects
• Conditional firm service
• Network resource interconnection service
• Open season opportunities
• Ownership and Financing Options for Wind Interconnections
• Transmission Issues Regarding Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)

Moderator:
Gene Grace, Regulatory Attorney, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Speakers:
Joseph Fagan, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Larry Eisenstat, Attorney, Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Adam Wenner, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Stephen Krebs, Partner, Head of Alternative Energy Practice,
Baker Botts LLP

A total of 4-15 minute presentations followed by a 15 minute Q & A session
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2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Break & Exhibits
Location: Cottonwood Foyer
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3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Grid operations and integration

• Grid optimization mechanisms
• Forecasting and scheduling methods
• NERC’s variable generation report

Moderator:
Michael Goggin, Electric Industry Analyst,
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Speakers:
Lynn Coles, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Overview of Integration Issues

• Grid Operations
• Sources of Grid Variability
• Results of Wind Integration Analyses
• Future Studies and Issues

David Edelson, Project Manager, New York Independent System
Operator (NYISO )

Changing operating standards for wind in NY,
including forecasting and wind resource management

• Integration wind forecasts into the day-ahead and real-time dispatch
• Managing wind resources during periods of over-generation

Aaron Bennett, Engineer of Reliability Assessments,
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

NERC’s Variable Generation Task Force Report

• Current status of the report
• Recommendations outlined in the report, addressing both
  planning and operations
• Future work plans

Frank Bristol, Senior Manager, Transmission, Acciona Energy NA

A total of 4-15 minute presentations followed by a 15 minute Q & A session
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4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Daily Wrap-Up
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4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Networking Reception & Exhibits
Location: Cottonwood Foyer

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	Wednesday, March 18

7:30 AM
Registration & Exhibits Open
Location: Cottonwood Foyer

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Location: Cottonwood Foyer
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8:30 AM – 9:15 AM
Keynote Panel

Washington: Federal Legislation, Stimulus Bill & Transmission

• An overview and discussion of what has been passed, what has been proposed, and what is likely on the horizon.

Moderator:
Rob Gramlich, Policy Director,
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Speakers:
Doug Smith, Member, Van Ness Feldman, PC
Ron Lehr, Consultant to American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Transmission, Invenergy, LLC
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9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Interconnection Standards

• What’s next in Interconnection Standards?
• Perspective of transmission providers, developers,
  manufacturers relative to interconnection
• Processes used to set interconnection standards, and
• Reactive power concerns in ERCOT and elsewhere
• Overview of the scheduling and interfacing/communications
  requirements for the different grid operators

Moderator:
Henry Tilghman, Senior Manager, Technical Compliance, Vestas-American Wind Technology, Inc.

Speakers:
Bill Patzin, Senior Engineer – Interconnection Coordination Department, PJM Interconnection, Inc.

Implementation and Construction Guidelines for
Interconnection Projects in PJM

• Taking a project from the “study phase into construction and implementation
• Lessons learned from the engineering, construction, and PJM phases of interconnection projects
• Areas to consider in the interconnection construction process (scheduling, outages)

Jim Blatchford, Senior Policy Issues Representative,
California Independent System Operator
Brendan Kirby, Consultant to American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

A total of 3-15 minute presentations followed by a 15 minute Q & A session
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Break & Exhibits
Location: Cottonwood Foyer
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11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Technical Advances in Interconnection

• Innovative techniques and technical solutions
  for wind plant interconnection
• How turbines and other technology (statcoms, etc) are
  evolving to meet these standards

Moderator:
Brendan Kirby, Consultant to American Wind Energy Association

Speakers:
Narend Reddy, Manager Transmission Planning, American Superconductor
John Kumm, Professional Engineer, POWER Engineers

Protective Relaying in Wind Plants

• Protection Concerns in and around the typical wind plant collector substation
• Considerations for making your collector substation SmartGrid -Ready

Tapani Seppa, Vice President – Operations, The Valley Group
Jack McCall, American Superconductor

A total of 4-15 minute presentations followed by a 15 minute Q & A session
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12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
Location: Leatherwood Ballroom

*NEW* Networking Activities: AWEA is offering structured networking opportunities at lunch. There will be multiple break-out groups meeting for informal discussions during this time. You are welcome to join any of the informal discussion groups. Please look for discussion group names on the tables during lunch. We will have the following discussion groups:

• Policy Environment
• Legal Issues
• Technical Advances
• Interconnection Standards
• Northwest Regional Issues
• Great Plains Regional Issues
• Texas Issues
• Grid Integration

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1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Transmission infrastructure

• Models of successful proactive transmission development
• Which wind resource areas will open up in the next few years?
• Access to new transmission lines
• Transmission cost recovery and siting policies to
  advance proactive transmission
• How will new transmission development affect the wind industry – move
  to larger projects in high resource areas attached to long feeder lines?
• Evolving transmission business models

Moderator:
Doug Smith, Member, Van Ness Feldman, PC

Speakers:
Dale Osborn, Technical Director Transmission Planning, Midwest ISO
Cameron Yourkowski, Transmission Policy Associate, Renewable Northwest Developments
Jay Caspary, Director, Transmission Development,
Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
Johan Enslin, Vice President – Sustainable Energy, Quanta Technology

A total of 4-15 minute presentations followed by a 15 minute Q & A session
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3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Workshop Wrap-Up

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(Program schedule and topics subject to change without notice.)

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