District Energy - 2008 Second Quarter

2:00 pm–2: 30 pm

2A Operations and Fuels Management Fuel Flexibility, Renewables and Alternatives – Kevin Rhodes, Woolpert

2: 30 pm-3:00 pm

2B Combined Heat and Power

CHP Improves Reliability, Efficiency and Environmental Benefits to New Cancer Hospital and Community – Chuck Heidt, Gainesville Regional Utilities; Edward Mardiat, Burns & McDonnell Markham’s Smart Growth and District Energy System Expansion – Bruce Ander, Markham District Energy

3:00 pm-3: 30 pm

3: 30 pm–5:00 pm

Managing Regret Risk: A User’s Guide to

Managing Downside Risk in Energy Purchasing –

Matthew DeCourcey, Levitan & Associates

Refreshment Break with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors
3A IDEA Best Practice Guide Symposium 3B Fuel Flexibility/Sustainable Solutions

Pre-release briefing on the IDEA District Cooling Moving to biomass, ocean and lake water cooling, waste Best Practice Guide. Technical guidance on Business to energy, landfill methane and other resources. Briefings Model; Plant Design; Distribution Systems; Building and panel discussion. Invited participants include Tom Interface; Controls & Metering and Operations. Frankiewicz, US EPA LMOP; Gregg Coffin, University of

Missouri Columbia; Bill Mahlum, Ever-Green Energy.

5:00 pm–6: 30 pm

Tuesday, July 1 7: 30 am–8: 30 am

Reception with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors

8: 30 am-9:00 am

9:00 am-9: 30 am

4B District Cooling

Case Study:Ultra Efficient Chilled Water Facility Operates at .5k W/ton – Ben Erpelding, Optimum Energy Comfort Cooling: Pay Now, Pay Later or Pay Less – Tom Pierson, TAS

9: 30 am–10:00 am

Power Purchasing Strategies for Ice Storage Plant – Philip Hymel, Entergy; John Carlson, Burns & McDonnell

10:00 am–10:45 am

10:45am–11: 15 am

11: 15 am–11:45 am

12:00 noon –1: 30 pm 1: 30 pm–2: 15 pm

2: 15 pm–2:45 pm

Continental Breakfast & Registration 4A Controls, Metering & Optimization Beyond the Strip Chart: Lessons Learned in Modernization – Tim Johnston, NRG Energy Virtual Metering and Monitoring – Case Study at University of New Mexico – Larry Schuster, University of New Mexico; Thomas Lund Hansen, 7T Substation Control and Delta T Optimization with Wireless Sensor Controls – Jonas Gustafsson, Luleå University of Technology Refreshment Break with IDEA Business Partner Exhibitors 5A Commissioning and Optimization 5B District Cooling Commissioning of Combined Heat & Power Thermal Energy Storage Yields Reduced Capital Costs Facilities – Lessons Learned – Roger Moore, MIT; and Flexible Power Management – John Andrepont, Tony Litton, Abbe Bjorklund, Sebesta Blomberg; Cool Solutions, Inc. Bruce Nicholson, Cooperative Consulting Services Commissioning Central Plants – Case Study – Mechanical Heat Pumps Using Water For Highly Efficient John Duffy, Mike Click, Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Ice Production – A. Ophir, T. Ephrat, IDE Technologies IDEA Annual Business Meeting and Recognition Luncheon Dessert Break in Exhibit Hall with Business Partners

6A Distribution Systems

Constructing A Utility Tunnel for an Urban Campus

– Jeff Pollei, Affiliated Engineers

2:45 pm–3: 15 pm

3: 15 pm–3:45 pm

How Does Delta T Influence Distribution Losses? – Kimmo Yliniemi, Luleå University Remote Monitoring for Distribution Systems – Ramy Nahas, Con Edison Steam Operations Refreshment Break

6B System Optimization

Using Business Intelligence for Predictive Campus Energy Management at Rice University – Mark Gardner, Eric Valentine, Rice University; Don Allen, InCuity Utilizing Good Data Logging Practices to Monitor Plant Performance – Tim Clark, Stellar Virtual Energy Audit Simulation – Alan Werner, VA:W

3:45 pm–4: 15 pm 4: 15 pm–5: 30 pm

Special Forum Symposiums

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure : Developing a District Energy Business – Special Symposium Metering, Metrics and Key Management Issues for Municipalities

Briefings on metering, sub-metering and customer IDEA Business Partners provide a briefing on how to data solutions. Invited panelists to include Ramesh assess, evaluate, design and develop a successful district Ramadurai, Empower; Mikeal Hansen, Kamstrup; energy system in a city or community, including potential Joel Lemke, Emerson Process; Eric Rocher, for grant funding from 2007 Energy Independence and OUCooling. Security Act Section 471.