CCIF 12th Annual Kickoff Forum
The Customer-Centered Clean Energy Transition: Balancing Technology, People & the Planet
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 @ 3:00-4:15 pm EST
Virtual
CCIF 8th Annual Kickoff Forum
Resilience & Security: Integrating Technologies at the Grid Edge
Saturday, November 11, 2017 ♦ 2:00-5:00 pm
Hilton Baltimore ♦ Baltimore, MD
CCIF 7th Annual Kickoff Forum
Connecting Communities: Smart Cities, Enabling Technologies & the Grid
Saturday, November 12, 2016 ♦ 2:00-5:00 pm
La Quinta Resort & Club ♦ La Quinta, CA
A growing number of communities are implementing “smart city” initiatives – for a variety of reasons and at different speeds. The speaker will discuss common smart city elements, underlying motivations, enabling technologies, and opportunities and challenges for communities in pursuit of smart city designation. A series of speakers will share present activities and upcoming plans with respect to smart city initiatives. Finally, a panel of state commissioners, consumer advocates, and energy company representatives will explore important regulatory and policy questions.
CCIF 6th Annual Kickoff Forum
Meeting & Exceeding Customer Expectations
Saturday, November 7, 2015 ♦ 2:00–5:00pm
JW Marriott Austin ♦ Austin, TX
CCIF will introduce plans for an in-depth exploration of the expectations of today’s electric consumers and the challenges and opportunities associated with endeavors to align policies to meet and exceed such expectations, which are increasingly diverse. For example, some consumers seek greater resiliency, some are focused on meeting sustainability goals, some need heightened reliability, some want to better control their energy use, some have expectations about data management and service provider coordination, and some focus primarily on affordability. In any event, consumers want their expectations met, have access to a range of enabling technologies, and are willing to pursue non-traditional approaches to achieve their goals.
CCIF 5th Annual Kickoff Forum
Customer Big Data & the Evolving Distribution System: Navigating the Access & Usage Minefield
Saturday, November 15, 2014 ♦ 2:15–5:15pm
San Francisco Marriott Marquis ♦ Yerba Buena Ballroom, Salon 7
The Critical Consumer Issues Forum (CCIF) invites you to join us in San Francisco for our 5th Annual Kickoff Forum to discuss the how the technological evolution of the distribution system is creating customer big data public policy issues that will impact customers, regulators, third-party vendors and utilities. Issues that will be addressed include:
- Consumer Privacy and Security Needs
- Rules Governing Access and Usage By Vendors and Utilities
- Regulatory Options
- Role of the Distribution Utility
- Technology Considerations and Standards
This dialogue will help shape CCIF’s work in summits next spring, at which commissioners, consumer advocates, and electric utility representatives will continue the discussion, develop options for consideration by policymakers and regulators, and form consensus where possible.
CCIF 4th Annual Kickoff Forum
Distributed Generation: Consumer-Focused Options for Policymakers & Regulators
Saturday, November 16, 2013 ♦ 2:00–5:00pm
Orlando Hilton Bonnet Creek ♦ Orlando, FL
The Critical Consumer Issues Forum (CCIF) invites you to join us in Orlando for our 4th Annual Kickoff Forum, which will build on the consensus framework and principles on distributed generation (DG) that were developed by CCIF earlier this year. To dig deeper into the complex topic of DG, areas of discussion will likely include:
- Value of a Safe, Reliable, and Resilient Grid to Enable DG Options for Consumers
- DG Market Development and Deployment
- DG Cost Allocation Approaches and Best Practices
- Consumer Protections, Complaint Resolution, and Education
This dialogue will help shape CCIF’s work in summits next spring, at which commissioners, consumer advocates, and electric utility representatives will continue the discussion, develop options for consideration by policymakers and regulators, and form consensus where possible. As we begin the effort to build on the CCIF framework on DG and further assist policymakers and other stakeholders in evaluating these challenging issues, we encourage your participation.
CCIF 3rd Annual Kickoff Forum
Policy Considerations Related to Distributed Energy Resources
Saturday, November 10, 2012 ♦ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Baltimore Hilton ♦ Baltimore, MD
The electric utility industry is facing transformative technological and economic changes whose effects are increasingly converging at the distribution side of the business as customers begin to have a range of alternative supply options. These alternative supply options, commonly referred to as distributed energy resources, include the use of demand resources, distributed generation, energy storage, electric vehicles, microgrids, and virtual power plants.
To encourage these new technologies and supply options, many states have implemented policies such as net metering, which allow utility customers to offset their electricity consumption via generation of their own electricity that is often valued at the utility retail rate. Such treatment is favorable to self-generators but raises questions about the cost impacts on customers who do not self-generate. In addition to net metering, states have also offered incentives that include rebates, tax incentives, performance-based incentives, and low-cost financing to promote distributed generation and other distributed energy resources.
Many states are seeking to expand these incentives for a variety of reasons such as to benefit the environment, advance energy independence objectives, and/or enable customers to have more choices. As programs expand and require more funding support, and as distributed energy resource technologies become more cost-competitive, it may be time to discuss how to ensure that policies intended to encourage their development are both economically sound and equitable for customers.
To see the lineup of speakers, please download the CCIF 3rd Annual Kickoff Forum Agenda.
CCIF 2nd Annual Kickoff Forum
The Challenges of a Changing Regulatory Environment
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 ♦ 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Renaissance St. Louis Grand ♦ St. Louis, MO ♦ Room: Majestic D
At a time when consumers are reeling under the impact of the mortgage crisis, high unemployment, and electricity rates that are rising higher and faster, utilities and regulators are under increased pressure to provide solutions. Adding to those pressures are concerns related to power quality and restoration in the wake of natural disasters such as Hurricane Irene; federal initiatives regarding transmission (planning, siting, and cost allocation), grid modernization, and demand response; state mandates regarding renewables and efficiency; EPA compliance requirements; cybersecurity; and an uncertain investment climate for new and replacement infrastructure and capital expenditures. These will add increasing costs to an already tenuous situation for consumers.
The complexity and cross-cutting nature of these issues require a collaboration of ideas and strategies on how to approach these issues going forward in a way that will mitigate negative impacts to consumers. At this forum, esteemed commissioners, consumer advocates, and electric industry representatives will collectively address:
• The numerous challenges presented by today’s changing regulatory environment;
• The resulting impacts on each of their communities; and
• Potential solutions, which will include but not be limited to discussion of the following:
- What regulatory tools (existing and new) are available to address these challenges?
- Could rate design be a magic bullet?
- How might stakeholders work together to address these issues? How might the process be improved?
- How do we ensure that state commissions, consumer advocates, and utilities have the necessary resources to fully address these increasingly complex issues?
- Given finite dollars and the need to mitigate rate impacts, how should these numerous challenges be prioritized?
To see the lineup of speakers, please download the CCIF 2nd Annual Kickoff Forum Agenda.
Press Briefing @ GridWeek:
CCIF Report: Grid Modernization Issues with a Focus on Consumers
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Description | The Critical Consumer Issues Forum (CCIF) will announce its first report, Grid Modernization Issues with a Focus on Consumers, a collaborative effort by a number of the nation’s leading state utility regulators, consumer advocates, and electric utility representatives. Reflecting consensus among the participants from these three key groups, the report contains thirty consumer-centric principles in the following five areas: Consideration of Grid Modernization Investments, Consumer Protections, Privacy & Security, Consumer Education & Communication, and Federal/State Relations. |
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Date | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
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Time | 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM |
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Location | GridWeek 2011 Conference, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 203 A (Address: 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington, DC) |
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