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Energy Efficiency Market Transformation Opportunities for Texas

A workshop jointly sponsored by Public Citizen, with the Texas Energy Efficiency Partnership, and the Electrical Utility Marketing Managers of Texas (EUMMOT).

Thompson Conference Center
Austin, TX
September 13, 2007

Opening/Introduction
Welcome: Alan Ahrens, Chairman, EUMMOT
Views of the Challenge and Opportunity

• Theresa Gross, Energy Efficiency Lead, Electric Division, Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Energy Efficiency in Public Facilities  - Dub Taylor, Director, State Energy Conservation Office
• Why The Time Is Ripe For Texas To Become Far More Efficient - Tom “Smitty” Smith, Texas Director, Public Citizen
• Regional Potential of Energy Efficiency and On-site Renewable Energy - R. Neal Elliott, Ph.D., P.E., Industrial Program Director, ACEEE

“Outside the Box”:
Session Chair: Price Robertson, Oncor

• A Public Example – Fred Yebra, Director, Demand Side Management, Austin Energy.
• Advanced Buildings: Core Performance - Mark Cherniack, Senior Program Manager, New Buildings Institute.
• Utility DSM Programs and Federal Tax Incentives - Harry Misuriello, Manager, Energy Efficiency Strategies, Owens Corning, representing NAIMA.
• Non-Transmission Industrial Compressed Air - Scott Stroup, President, Airometrix.

Commercial Programs:
Session Chair: Jay Zarnikau, Frontier Associates

• Comprehensive Design Support for High Performance New Construction - Jay Pilliod, Director of Business Energy Services, Vermont Energy Investment Corp.
• Data Centers - Derrick Rebello, President, QuEST.
• Grocery Stores & Big Box – Jim Stimmel, Executive Vice President, Engineering, CLEAResult Consulting.
• Vendor-Based Delivery Mechanisms for Recommissioning and Prescriptive DSM - Chris Schroeder, Vice President- Energy & Carbon Management, Nexant.

Residential Programs:
Session Chair: Tom Fitzpatrick, Public Citizen

• Peak Alerts and Peak Time Rebates - David Pickles, Vice President, ICF International.
• Residential Rules-Based Audit – Jonathan Baty, Vice President of Technology, Enerpath.
• Residential Audit - Steve Saunders, CEO, TexEnergy Solutions, Inc., representing Texas Home Energy Raters Organization (TX HERO).
• Appliance Replacement and Recycling – Bruce Wall, Vice President, Resource Efficiency Programs, Appliance Recycling Centers of America.
  

Reception hosted by Frontier Associates and CLEAResult Consulting

Electricity comes to rural Texas
Photograph provided by Theresa Gross, Energy Efficiency Lead, Electric Division, Public Utility Commission of Texas

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