2009 CCET Board Meeting Summaries
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October 22-23, 2009
The CCET Board met in Executive Session on October 22, 2009 at The University of Texas Club. In addition to the regular actions on financial matters of the organization the Board considered various activities that need be undertaken to get the word out concerning the CCET Stimulus proposal. A report from the Membership Committee focused on strategies to get more participation from the Texas electric cooperatives.
The CCET Board met in Public Session on October 23, 2009 at the Center for Electromechanics at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, The University of Texas. The Board heard a review of NIST Standards Roadmap by Gary Rackliffe of ABB, reports from CCET’s Wholesale and Retail Stakeholder Groups and a presentation from the TexasIsHot Coalition by Curt Seidlits. The group also heard from Bob Hebner, Director of the Center for Electromechanics, and enjoyed a tour of the Center by John Pappas.
The Board heard a proposal concept to apply for Stimulus funds under DOE FOA 148 which is a competitive grant application under DOE’s Energy Efficiency Block Grant program. The DOE solicitation is for innovative financing ideas that result in advancing adoption of energy efficiency equipment and techniques. The focus of the proposal is to join FOA 148 objectives with implementation of HB 1937 passed by the last Texas Legislature. HB 1937 is a form of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) legislation adopted by a number of states recently that allows cities to create special tax districts, finance home and small commercial energy efficiency investments of cooperating owners within the district and then recoup the city-backed loan from incremental property tax payments by the owner.
July 9-10, 2009
The CCET Board of Directors met in Executive Session on July 9 and in a public session July 10 at the Airport Hilton Hotel, Austin, Texas. The public meeting included final proposals from the various teams working to develop proposal ideas having the specifications of grant requirements available from DOE. After a full set of presentations and group discussion on storage, demand response, cybersecurity, interoperability, synchrophasors, enhancement of the Texas Common Portal and the Texas Future Community the Board made final decisions on the availability of match funding, and the advisability of including the various components in a Stimulus proposal. The decision was to include the synchrophasor, enhanced Texas Common Portal and the Texas Future Community, with cybersesurity, interoperability and data management and economic analysis components.
Southwest Research presented a plan for developing the full proposal in order to meet the DOE deadline for submission.
June 3, 2009
The CCET Board of Directors met in Executive Session at the Airport Hilton Hotel, Austin, Texas on June 3 to review the CCET proposal for Stimulus funding. Proposals on synchrophasors, storage, demand response and the Texas Future Community were reviewed. A new concept was added to the set of proposal ideas. This addition was presented as an enhancement to the Texas Common Portal project that is under way in ERCOT that would extend the portal capability to the back offices of ERCOT thus allowing new direct load control capabilities to follow the roll out of 7 million advanced meters that will be in place during the next 4 to 5 years.
April 23- 24, 2009
The CCET Board met in Executive Session at the Hilton Hotel, Austin Airport in Austin, Texas on April 23, 2009. In addition to the usual business matters of the organization’s finances and contracts the Board heard an audit report by the CCET accountant and a number of presentations for proposals that could become part of a CCET Stimulus fund proposal.
The CCET Board met in public session at Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Bastrop, Texas on April 24, 2009. Board members present included Billy Berny (AEP), Don Cortez (CenterPoint), Andres Carvallo (Austin Energy), David Dollihite (Direct Energy), Brad Gammons (IBM), Jim Greer (Oncor Electric Delivery), Paul Hudson (Hudson Public Affairs), and Brian Tulloh (TXU Energy). Officers present included Paul Hudson (Chairman), Milton Holloway (President & Chief Operating Officer), Robert Howden (VP Communications), Bill Muston (Secretary), and Tom Rose (Treasurer). Other Member Representatives and Guests included Ken Murphy, Centerpoint Energy’s TAG Representative, Paul Williamson, IBM’s TAG Representative, Chris Leblanc, National Instruments’ TAG Representative, Tom Foreman, Lower Colorado River Authority Craig Lobel, Land Tejas, Robyn Knocke, Energy Xtreme, Ross Johnson, Energy Xtreme Arron Hrak (sp), Energy Xtreme, Matt Bentke, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative John Pappas, The University of Texas, Sam Davis, Direct Energy, Rik Drummond, Consultant, and Member of GridWise Architecture Council, Bob Pohl, Fowler Energy and Project Manager for CCET Demand Response Project, Jay Zarnikau, Frontier Associates and Analytical Team for CCET Demand Response Project, Greg Landreth, Frontier Associates and Analytical Team for CCET Demand Response Project, and Greg Homan, Current Communications.
The meeting included progress reports on the on-going CCET projects and several presentations on prospective CCET projects for inclusion in a CCET Stimulus proposal in response to DOE’s FOA 36. Paul Hudson reviewed the Legislature and its ongoing activities and considerations related to electric energy supply, delivery, sales and use. He also reviewed highlights of Congressional energy initiatives in Washington D.C. Milton Holloway reviewed the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Smart Grid” programs that were authorized under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and further received appropriations and further guidance in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka “the Stimulus Bill). He discussed the Board’s considerations of how CCET and its Members might collaborate to obtain funding for programs of interest to the Members and proposed development of technology proposals all targeting improvements in helping the ERCOT market deal with large amounts of new wind generation.
Milton Holloway presented the essential elements of a synchrophasor network expansion that would constitute one component of the CCET proposal. A storage proposal was presented by Ross Johnson of Energy Xtreme. A large demand response program was proposed by Tom Van Denover and Eric Woychik of Comverge. Rik Drummond of Drummond Group presented the fundamentals of interoperability for inclusion in the proposal. Craig Lobel of EcoEdge reviewed the essential parts of the Houston Solar Community project (Texas Future Community) proposed for inclusion in the CCET Stimulus proposal. Gary Ragsdale of Southwest Research presented an approach to cybersecurity for inclusion in the proposal. Finally, Michael Dittmer of Southwest Research presented a structure for overall management of the CCET Stimulus project. The Board directed Holloway and the team to continue developing the proposal as direction from DOE becomes available.
Matt Bentke of Bluebonnet gave the group a tour of the Bluebonnet back office systems and reviewed the characteristics of their Sap based smart grid system. The status of CCET’s IEEE Student Design Contest reviewed by Bob Davis and updates were reported on other CCET projects including the final report on the DR Pilot.
January 8-9, 2009
The CCET Board met in Executive session at Austin Energy’s office center in Austin on January 8, 2009. In addition to the usual business matters of the organization’s finances and contracts the Board heard a presentation form the Missions and Strategies Taskforce. The Taskforce recommended modifications in the CCET mission statements and consideration for changing the name of the organization. The Board approved changes to the mission statement and project focus to focus on projects that move the Texas electric market forward through technology and related market and policy changes.
The CCET Board met in public session at Austin Energy’s office center in Austin on January 9, 2009. Board members attending were Don Cortez (CenterPoint), Andres Carvallo (Austin Energy), Brad Gammons (IBM), Bill Muston for Jim Greer (Oncor Electric Delivery), Officers in attendance included Robert Howden (Chief Executive Officer), Milton Holloway (Chief Operating Officer), Bill Muston (Secretary), Tom Rose, (Treasurer). Others in attendance included: Paul Hudson, Consultant to the Board and Former Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, Bob Pohl, Fowler Energy and Project Manager for CCET Demand Response Project, Jay Zarnikau, Frontier Associates and Analytical Team for CCET Demand Response Project, Greg Landreth, Frontier Associates and Analytical Team for CCET Demand Response Project, and Greg Homan, Current Communications, Chris Leblanc, National Instruments’ TAG Representative, Dan Martinez, CenterPoint Energy, Ken Murphy, Centerpoint Energy’s TAG Representative, Don Sevcik, CenterPoint Energy, Dr. Wei-Jen Lee, The University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Surya Santoso, The University of Texas at Austin, John Adams, ERCOT and Representative for CCET/ERCOT Phasor Project, David Bogen, Oncor Electric Delivery, Paul Williamson, IBM’s TAG Representative, Dr. Mack Grady, The University of Texas at Austin Scott Jarman, Austin Energy, Danny Ge, Austin Energy.
Status reports were given on the Demand Response Pilot Project, Synchronized Sampling and Phasor Project, Transformer Monitor Design – Student Contest, and the Houston Solar Community Project. Dr. Holloway also gave a presentation on the concept of a proposal for Stimulus funding that included a CAES storage project, a large-scale demand response program, and the Texas future community project.