ACEEE’S 5th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS A RESOURCE
ACEEE’S 5th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS A RESOURCE
September 27–29, 2009
The Drake Hotel
Chicago, IL
Welcome - What Is the Energy Efficiency as a Resource Conference?
Energy Efficiency is hot! Energy Efficiency’s importance as a utility resource has never been greater than it is now. The industry faces soaring power plant construction costs, high and volatile fuel costs, growing concerns about system reliability, and increasing calls for action to address global warming.
Numerous states have established aggressive new energy savings goals, pushing programs to achieve higher and higher savings. With these new requirements and goals come a variety of new challenges.
ACEEE’s 5th National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource will bring together industry leaders once again to discuss the latest developments in the use of energy efficiency as a key resource for meeting customer and utility system needs and for addressing other critical economic and environmental objectives
ACEEE held previous conferences on Energy Efficiency as a Resource in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007.
What Topics Will Be on the Program?
The detailed conference program is being developed. Topics to be addressed include:
- Meeting aggressive resource goals for energy efficiency
- State and regional examples or case studies
- Strategies and program plans for meeting higher goals
- Natural gas energy efficiency
- Regulatory mechanisms to encourage utility energy efficiency programs
- Documented experience with decoupling and/or shareholder incentives
- New examples of policy implementation
- Measuring the energy efficiency resource
- Documented savings and cost-effectiveness results
- Energy efficiency potential studies
- Calculating the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency (including “jobs” impacts)
- Integrated resource planning and system operation
- Integrating energy efficiency into utility resource portfolios
- Municipal and public utility sector energy efficiency
- Energy efficiency and system reliability
- How energy efficiency can solidify energy reliability
- How energy efficiency can be integrated with demand response strategies
- Emerging new market roles for energy efficiency (e.g., forward capacity markets)
- Energy efficiency and the environment
- Energy efficiency, greenhouse gases and global warming
- Energy efficiency in state environmental planning and compliance
- Federal initiatives in utility sector energy efficiency
- Federal energy legislation, such as a federal energy efficiency resource standard (EERS)
- The economic stimulus package and its role in advancing energy efficiency as a resource
- International case studies of energy efficiency as a resource
The full, detailed conference agenda with selected topics and presenters will be posted in July. Please visit this page to view this information.
The deadline to submit abstracts for presentation has passed. Notifications about accepted proposals will be sent by June 19th.
Please note that all presenters will be required to pay the registration fees for this conference.
Early Bird Registration Deadline: August 14, 2009 (11:59pm eastern time) and Regular Registration Deadline: September 14, 2009 (11:59pm eastern time). After this date the Late Registration fee will be effect. Registration is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
In order to reserve your place, the registration fee must be PAID IN FULL.
Registration Fee Options:
Early Bird Conference Fee: $450 per person available until August 14, 2009 (11:59pm eastern time)
Regular Conference Fee: $500 per person available from August 15 until September 14, 2009 (11:59pm eastern time)
Late Conference Fee: $550 per person after September 14, 2009 (11:59pm eastern time)
One-Day Conference Fees: Early Bird $300; Regular $350; and Late $400. Deadline dates are the same as above.