PA 510 Smart Grid and Sustainable Communities: Version 4.0A Two-Term Course Series, Winter and Spring Terms, 2013

Winter Term: (January 17-March 21) The Smart Grid and Sustainable Communities: Making the Connections

Spring Term (April 4-June 13) Making the Smart Grid Work in the Real World

Course Syllabus for Winter Term

Thursday evenings, 6:30-9:40 PM Urban Center, Room 204, 506 SW MillPublic website: http://www.pdx.edu/cps/smart-grid-for-sustainable-communitiesLink to Desire to Learn (D2L) course website for registered students with password: https://d2l.pdx.edu

Faculty and Staff (faculty bios at http://www.pdx.edu/cps/faculty-for-smart-grid-courses) Jeff Hammarlund, Lead Faculty, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Mark Hatfield

School of Government, PSU, and President, Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies, hammarj@pdx.edu, 503-249-0240

Lawrence Beaty, Executive Director and Chair of the Idaho State University Energy Systems Technology and Education Center, beatkawr@isu.edu, 208-282-3265 (class advisor and guest presenter)

Michael Jung, Policy Director, Silver Spring Networks, mjung@silverspringnet.com, 503-360-3881 (class advisor and guest presenter)

James Mater, Co-founder and General Manager, Smart Grid Business, QualityLogic; founding member and chair, Smart Grid Oregon, jmater@qualitylogic.com, 503-780-9796

Mark Osborn, Senior Vice President, Five Stars International, Ltd; formerly, Smart Grid Manager, Portland General Electric, mark.osborn@fivestarsintl.com, 503-709-937

Lisa Harrison, Course Assistant, lisaharrison@mac.com, 503-206-4534 Bill Henry, Class Blogger, bill@eqlenergy.com, 503-475-0391 Stephanie Levine, Special Assistant to Lisa Harrison, stephanie@oregoncub.org, 773-307-1666

Scope, Approach, and Innovative FeaturesThis two-term course series explores a set of emerging concepts, technologies, applications and business models, and the related trade-off decisions involved in transforming the nation’s century-old, centralized power grid into a climate and renewable energy-friendly “Smart Grid.” If offers a cross-disciplinary approach intended to deepen individual areas of expertise in the context of multidisciplinary teamwork. The first term establishes a basic Smart Grid literacy, while the second term applies this knowledge base to specific “real world” case studies.

Both terms include lectures, active learning strategies, individual and group projects, class presentations from guest speakers and seminar participants, and field trips. The series closes with a

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small public forum during which student teams will present their recommendations to a select group of community leaders.

Many visionaries informed about the world of energy policy believe that this emerging “internet for energy” will enable individuals and businesses alike to participate in both the quality and quantity of energy they use to live and work, generating and storing energy from multiple sources, and managing the amount and timing of their use of that energy. The Smart Grid will integrate generation from both directions – home/business and central station plant – and move it as needed to meet load while incorporating solar panels, wind farms, fuel cells, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and other energy sources. This intelligent electric network will manage load shape and will achieve greater utilization than today. Its full value will be achieved when it is combined with an emerging participatory network model that enables consumers to actively manage their electricity consumption and sell back to the grid the surplus power they generate.

The concepts, technologies, and models addressed by this course hold the promise of a significant new paradigm for the generation, use and delivery of electric power that is more efficient, sustainable, robust, flexible, and environmentally sound, and that encourages a much higher level of consumer participation and control. Converting to the Smart Grid also opens up additional opportunities to make other infrastructures (including waste water, transportation, telecommunications, and natural gas) greener and more sustainable during the Smart Grid conversion process.

This is the fourth year PSU has offered an interdisciplinary graduate level course on the smart grid. Past editions have been heralded by all four governors and many members of Congress from the four Northwest states, the Secretary of Energy, and numerous energy educators and experts for its innovative features. We will continue and build upon many of these innovative features this year. For example, the course:

Serves two critical audiences: (1) graduate students in engineering, information technology, public administration/policy, urban planning, business, economics, law, and related fields; and (2) mid-career professionals from the utility, information technology, public administration, architecture, urban and transportation planning, business, legal, and related communities who are interested in getting up to speed on the smart grid as a part of their professional development.

Is taught by a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary faculty team that can offer academic knowledge and practical experience in policy and planning, power engineering, information technology, and business. We apply academic theory and research to address real world challenges (“Making Oregon our Classroom”).

Invites additional nationally known experts to offer their perspectives. For example, underwriting in 2011 allowed us to invite some of the nation’s top smart grid experts who are working in regions of the country that are ahead of Oregon on smart grid policy development, at least in some respects. These speakers included the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Administration, the chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, and smart grid leaders from California, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, New York and elsewhere. They offered valuable insights and recommendations on what Oregon should and should not include in the state’s Smart Grid Roadmap.

Offers a cross-disciplinary approach that deepens individual areas of expertise in the context of teamwork. For example, we establish interdisciplinary small group “learning communities” that require communication, learning, and the completion of group assignments across traditional disciplines. Each small group has a primary and back up faculty advisor, but most of the ‘heavy

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lifting” is done by the group members themselves. We believe that an ability to communicate across traditional disciplines is critical to the successful development of the Smart Grid. It is also a skill that is highly valued by employers interested in positioning their companies for a successful future.

Runs over two consecutive terms, with the second term building on the first. The first term focuses on establishing the smart grid basics and learning how to function in multidisciplinary student teams; the second term adds to the knowledge base but places primary emphasis on applying this knowledge to help support “real world” projects that identify and test how the smart grid can support sustainable development. Examples of actual projects our multidisciplinary small group learning communities have addressed so far: PGE’s Salem Smart Power Project, Strategies for the Smart Grid to Support Emerging EcoDistricts and District Energy Systems in Portland; Exploring the Connections between Smart Grid and Vehicle-to-Grid: Opportunities and Challenges in Oregon; The Smart Grid’s Role as an Enabler of Renewable Energy Integration in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest; and Strategies to Include Low-Income and Other Vulnerable Consumers as Smart Grid Beneficiaries. We do not require seminar participants to enroll for both terms but we encourage them to do so.

Concludes with a conference or public forum at which we present our findings and recommendations to government and business leaders. For example, in 2011, each of the student teams offered a presentation and a briefing book for the members of simulated “Governor’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Oregon’s Smart Grid Policy.” While the panel had no official standing, it consisted of people who could easily serve on such a panel and was chaired by the governor’s actual senior advisor on jobs and the economy. Some of these recommendations have been incorporated in the governor’s actual Ten-Year Energy Plan. Faculty member Michael Jung was asked to chair Governor Kitzhaber’s Ten Year Energy Plan Task Force, and Jeff Hammarlund was asked to lead the smart grid workgroup associated with this plan.

An additional innovative for this year involves making this course available in real time to other interested parties in the Northwest region through PSU’s Distance Learning Center. This allows interested students enrolled at partner universities and mid-career professionals working at partner electric utilities to take this course as part of their university curriculum or professional development training. Three Distance Learning options are available for students and mid-career professionals:

Video Conference. Participants may view the class presentations and interact with the faculty and guest speakers in real time at participating receiving Distance Learning Centers. This is the recommended option when possible.

Live Stream. Participants may view the class live but will not be able to interact with the faculty and guest speakers in real time.

Media Archive. Each class and presentation will be captured and stored for later viewing. A link will be provided for access to the archived media, which should be available the next day.

Each year this two-term course sequence explores different aspects of the relationship between the Smart Grid and sustainable development. However, we always begin our winter term class by setting a firm foundation and emphasizing fundamentals. For example, we try to ensure that everyone has a basic understanding of the Smart Grid’s historical links and precedents, utility governance and regulation, the current grid and power system, and how the grid is currently managed. We also help the students understand and grapple with the complexities of valuing and making decisions about trade-offs among competing social, economic and environmental objectives. With this background, the

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class will be much better positioned to explore some of the key technical, policy and economic issues and choices policy-makers must face as they sort out the Smart Grid’s role in the broader power system.

Since the Smart Grid and its related concepts and benefits are advancing rapidly, our course must evolve with them. After we establish a broad understanding of the Smart Grid’s expected benefits, we take a deeper look at the latest developments in the relationship between the Smart Grid and demand response, distributed generation, storage, and distributed automation. Next, we explore one of the most important opportunities and challenges associated with the Smart Grid in the Pacific Northwest – how the Smart Grid, linked with demand response and energy storage, can support the integration of wind and other variable generation resources in the Pacific Northwest.

During weeks 5 and 6, we introduce such critical topics and challenges as interoperability, system control and data acquisition (SCADA), and cybersecurity. In week 7, we take a fairly deep dive into the important topic of the Smart Grid and the consumers. With the help of a panel of nationally known experts, we will explore: the factors that affect how Smart Grid is viewed by consumers, the role of consumer engagement in realizing Smart Grid benefits; and approaches to connecting with consumers and influencing their energy behavior.

Week 8 - Square Peg Meets Round Hole: The Smart Grid Meets Traditional Regulation and Stakeholder Politics - explores the important issues of how traditional utility regulation poses obstacles to the development and implementation of the Smart Grid. Another panel of nationally known experts, including the author of one of our two primary course texts, will help us address this topic. They will also help us consider the advantages and disadvantages of alternative approaches to addressing this dilemma.

Week 9 introduces the very important topic of Transactive Energy, a key feature of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. The term transactive energy has now being applied to a number of efforts aimed at solving the architectural and policy challenges associated with the Smart Grid. Two of the nation’s top experts will help us understand transactive energy and why is viewed as vital to the success of the Smart Grid in some circles and as a controversial dead end in others.

Our final class during winter term explores Smart Grid jobs and business opportunities. We will also complete the discussion of interoperability and students who are taking the course for academic credit will turn in their take home final exam. Finally, we will discuss plans for the Spring Term class, which will focus on applying this knowledge we have gained during the winter to “real world” projects that identify and test how the smart grid can support sustainable development.

Course Sponsors

We could not offer a course with such a strong and diverse faculty team of recruit talented guest speakers without the generous financial support from companies with a strong local and regional presence that believe that the Smart Grid can make important contributions to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future. We would like to thank Portland General Electric for offering leadership and guidance, plus critical financial, faculty and technical support all four year’s we have offered this course, Intel Corporation for offering valuable support for three years, and Veris Industries our newest sponsor and underwriter.

With these underwriters support, we have been able to recruit a first-rate faculty team with a wide

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range of backgrounds and are recruiting additional guest speakers so we can continue to offer the cross-disciplinary approach that allows students to both deepen their specific areas of expertise with specialized faculty and work on projects in interdisciplinary teams with other graduate students and mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds. The faculty members are listed above.

Guest SpeakersOur course sponsors have also contributed some of the financial support needed to help us recruit a stellar group of guest speakers. In some cases, we have been able to pay for their basic travel and accommodations. In other cases, the guest speakers have agreed to contribute some or all of these costs. In no cases, are the speakers requiring an honorarium. We want to acknowledge and appreciate their generosity and passion for contributing to our efforts to help prepare the next generation of leaders in this new and important endeavor.

Our guest speakers for winter Term include:

Ron Binz, Principal, Public Policy Consulting, and former Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission

Andrew Campbell, Energy Policy Advocate and Advisor; former Senior Advisor to two California Public Utilities Commission Commissioners

Ken Dragoon, Managing Consultant, Energy Systems & Markets Division, EcoFys-US; formerly Manager of System Analysis and Generation Division, Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Patty Durand, Executive Director, Smart Grid Consumers Collaborative Dr. Conrad Eustis, Director, Retail Technology Development, Portland General Electric Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of Smart Power, and Chairman Emeritus, The Brattle Group Lee Hall, Smart Grid Manager, Bonneville Power Administration Bob Jenks, Executive Director, Citizens Utility Board of Oregon Lisa Magnuson, Senior Director of Marketing & Brand Programs, Silver Spring Networks Dr. Ron Melton, Project Director, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project,

GridWise® Architecture Council, and senior technical leader for Smart Grid Research and Development Projects, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Terry Oliver, Chief Innovation Officer, Bonneville Power Administration Dr. Robert Topping, Educational Consultant and Co-chair, Pacific Northwest Center of

Excellence for Clean Energy Curriculum Committee

Course ReadingsWe will use two course texts for both the winter and spring terms of this course. They are:

Peter Fox-Penner, Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities, Island Press, 2010

Fereidoon P. Sioshansi (ed.), Smart Grid: Integrating Renewable, Distributed & Efficient Energy, Academic Press/Elsevier, 2012

In addition, we will use many studies and articles that are available on line or in journals that are available electronically through the PSU library. When possible, we include links to the articles so students can access the articles directly from an electronic version of the course syllabus. When this is not possible, we post the article in the proper week on the Desire to Learn (D2L) course website available to registered participants. Some of the articles we read in this class will not have been written yet when the term begins. As a result, D2L will be updated regularly throughout the term.

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Week 1 (January 17) Introduction to the Topic and Class Participants Receive Individual Assignments 1 and 2

Agenda 6:30 Welcome 6:40 Student introductions7:10 Faculty introductions and roundtable on what we find intriguing about the Smart Grid (15

minutes each faculty member)8:25 Break8:40 Course plan and logistics (Jeff)9:00 Distribution of D2L usernames and password/An introduction to D2L (Jeff and Lisa)9:15 Role of small group “learning communities” in this course (Jeff)9:30 Delivery of Individual Assignments 1 and 2 (Jeff)9:40 Adjourn

Week 2 (January 24) Wiring the Smart Grid into History: The historical precedents for the

Smart Grid An Introduction to Utility Governance and Regulation Creation of Smart Grid Learning Communities Small Groups Receive Group Assignment 1 (Data Analysis) and Connect

1. Learn one conceptual framework for supporting the launching the Smart Grid or other “clean technology” based on a systems thinking approach.

2. Begin to develop a basic understanding of the relevant historical development of the electric industry, particularly the institutional deals and arrangements established over time, that Smart Grid proponents must address if they are to be successful in advancing the Smart Grid.

3. Be able to summarize the key historical developments of the electric industry, particularly the institutional deals and arrangements established over time, that Smart Grid proponents must address if they are to be successful in advancing the Smart Grid.

4. Know the basic types of electric utilities in the US; for each type of utility, be able to describe the business model, governance structure, and how the utility is regulated and managed.

5. Meet, exchange contact information, and begin working with your Small Group Learning Community.

Agenda6:30 Announcements6:35 Introduction of additional faculty member, Lawrence Beaty, Executive Director and Chair of the

Energy Systems Technology Information Center, Idaho State University7:00 Wiring the Smart Grid into history: The historical precedents for the Smart Grid (Jeff)8:10 Break8:20 An introduction to utility governance and regulation and the implications for the Smart Grid

and how this may change with the smart grid (Jeff)9:00 Formation of multidisciplinary “learning communities” for small group assignments (Jeff)

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9:10 Receive Small Group Learning Community Assignment 1 (data analysis-due February 14) (Jeff)9:15 Small Groups meet, exchange contact information and get started with Small Group

Assignment 1 (Data Analysis)

Reading Assignment for Week 2:Priority Reading: Course text:

Fox-Penner, Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities, chapters 1-2 (available at PSU bookstore textbooks under PA 510 and other booksellers)

Sioshansi, Smart Grid: Integrating Renewable, Distributed, & Efficient Energy, chapter 2 (available at PSU bookstore textbooks under PA 510 and other booksellers)

Posted on Desire to Learn (D2L): US DOE, Smart Grid Vision Statement (A Vision for the Smart Grid/What Is the Smart Grid?) US DOE, Enhancing the Smart Grid: Integrating Clean Distributed and Renewable Generation Friedman-The Energy Internet: Where IT Meets ET Hammarlund, Oregon’s Role as an Energy Innovator: A Historical Perspective Johnson and Suskewicz, How to Jump-Start the Clean Tech Economy

Web links: Subscribe to free on-line Smart Grid Newsletter at

http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/index.html and review updates throughout course.

Litos Communications for US DOE, The Smart Grid: An Introduction http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/DOE_SG_Book_Single_Pages.pdf

Ebert, Customers Right to Be Wary of Smart Grid http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-january-4-2011/

US DOE, Enhancing the Smart Grid: Integrating Clean Distributed and Renewable Generation http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/RDSI_fact_sheet-090209.pdf

Additional Recommended Reading:Posted on D2L

Johnson et al, Reinventing Your Business Model Hammarlund, Electricity, Institutions and Innovation: Oregon’s and the Northwest's Role in the

Development of National Electricity Policy Giordono & Fulli, A Business Case for Smart Grid Technologies: A Systemic Perspective

Week 3 (January 31) Grid 101, Part 1: An introduction to the current grid and power system Grid 101, Part 2: How the grid is managed and the current utility

environment Selected presentations from Individual Assignment 2

Class Objectives1. Establish an appreciation for the already extensive and still blossoming Smart Grid literature.2. Create a clear understanding between the technical differences between energy and power.3. Develop a basic understanding of the current electric grid and power system that may be

incrementally altered or transformed over time by the emerging Smart Grid.

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4. Understand generally how generators work to produce electricity for the grid and how electricity is delivered for your use and measured to calculate your current energy bill.

5. Gain appreciation for the technology and processes needed to deliver power reliably 24/7.

Agenda6:30 Announcements6:40 Grid 101, Part 1: An introduction to the current grid and power system operations (Mark)8:00 Break8:10 Grid 101, Part 2: How the grid is managed and current utility environment (Mark)9:00 Presentations from 3 students on their literature review recommendations from Individual

Assignment 1 (Michael to facilitate)9:20 Troubleshooting D2L, Google groups and small group learning communities (Lisa, faculty, and class)9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignment for Week 3:Priority Reading: Course text:

Fox-Penner, chapters 3 & 7 Sioshansi, introduction and chapter 1

Posted on Desire to Learn (D2L): NETL Modern Grid Initiative, A Vision for the Modern Grid and Modern Grid Benefits NETL Modern Grid Initiative, Modern Grid Benefits

Web links: A Utility Application Implementation Strategy Using the EPRI IntelliGrid(sm) Methodology and

the GWAC Stack as a Model, http://www.gridwiseac.org/pdfs/forum_papers11/simmins_paper_gi11.pdfAnd http://www.gridwiseac.org/pdfs/forum_papers11/simmins_sgimm_pres_gi11.pdf

If the electricity industry is completely new to you, we suggest you review Energy Quest, The Energy Story, http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/index.html

If you are unfamiliar with the fundamental electricity concepts, we suggest you review Energy Information Administration, Electricity Explained http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/electricity_basics.htmland/or Science of Electricity http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=electricity_science-basics

Week 4 (February 7) A Broad Look at Smart Grid Opportunities and Benefits

o Why demand response is a key element of smart grid and how it works to integrate renewable energy supply

o The role of distributed generation, storage and distribution automation for a smarter grid

Trade Offs among Alternative Objectives Class presentations of Small Group Assignment 1 (data analysis) Receive Individual Assignment 3 (tradeoffs among alternative objectives)

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Class Objectives:1. Review the concept of power plant efficiency and the implications for CO2 emission impacts

and appreciate the differences among main power plant variations.2. Understand the classical economic evaluation of power plant worth for energy and capacity

(power).3. Understand the concept of “levelized cost of energy” and how this tool can be used to evaluate

and compare “traditional “(such as coal or hydro) and “new” (such as demand response or wind generation) energy resource options.

4. Learn the basic distributed energy resources elements and how these “demand side” resources work to benefit the grid, including demand response resources and distributed generation.

5. Learn the benefits and issues associated with microgrids and energy storage.

Agenda:6:40 Class Announcements6:50 Sustainability, Balancing, and Trade-Offs Among Alternative Objectives & LCOE (Conrad Eustis,

Director, Retail Technology Development, Portland General Electric) Receive and discuss Individual Assignment 3 (Trade-Offs Among Alternative Objectives; Due

February 14; no in class presentations on this assignment) (Conrad)7:20 Smart Meters: how they work, benefits and issues (Conrad)7:50 Key Smart Grid concepts of renewable resource integration using demand response and

distributed generation (Mark)8:10 Break8:20 An introduction to demand response and the regional benefits of water heater storage

(Conrad)9:00 Class presentations on Small Group Assignment 1 (Data Analysis). Part 1 (Jeff to facilitate)9:25 An introduction to distributed generation, microgrids/distribution automation and energy

storage. Part 1 (Mark)9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignments for Week 4:Priority Reading:Course text:

Fox-Penner, chapters 8-9, and 11 plus Appendix A & B Sioshansi, chapters 4-8

Web links: Wikipedia, Triple Bottom Line, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line

Additional Recommended Reading:Web links:

Hammerstrom et al, Pacific Northwest GridWise Testbed Demonstration Projects, Part I. Olympic Peninsula Project (executive summary), http://gridwise.pnl.gov/docs/op_project_final_report_pnnl17167.pdf

Week 5 (February 14) The Smart Grid Meets Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges

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The Challenge of Interoperability, Part 1 Receive Small Group Assignment 2 (Smart Grid opportunities in the

Pacific Northwest)

Class Objectives:1. Develop a basic understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in using the smart

grid and demand response to support the integration of wind and other variable generation resources in the Pacific Northwest.

2. Learn about alternative strategies and approaches to address this issue that are being evaluated by other countries.

3. Learn about BPA-supported smart grid and demand response programs and the progress it is making in establishing “commercial grade” DR programs.

4. Learn about BPA’s plan’s for a portfolio of energy storage options and how this relates to the Smart Grid

5. Develop a basic understanding for the importance of information technology (IT) interoperability, standards and open protocols with strict cybersecurity.

6. Understand the history of information technology standards in the electric utility industry and the state of development today.

7. Gain an understanding of the costs and benefits of non-standardized IT versus standards-based IT in the smart grid.

Agenda:6:30 Class Announcements6:35 Class presentations on Small Group Assignment 1 (Data Analysis), Part 26:55 The Smart Grid Meets Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges6:55 How the Smart Grid and Demand Response can support the integration of wind and other

variable generation resources (Ken Dragoon, Managing Consultant, Energy Systems & Markets Division, EcoFys-US; formerly Manager of System Analysis and Generation Division, Northwest Power and Conservation Council)

7:50 Break8:00 A progress report on BPA-supported demand response programs and BPA’s plan’s for a

portfolio of energy storage options (including a discussion of how the Smart Grid supports these efforts) (Lee Hall, Smart Grid Manager, Bonneville Power Administration)

8:50 Interoperability in the Smart Grid (James Mater)9:30 Receive Group Assignment 2: Smart Grid Opportunities in the Pacific Northwest (James Mater)9:40 Adjourn

Description of the Challenge of Interoperability Session:While the electrical utility industry has developed electrical and mechanical standards for the power system for years (think of the standard 110V outlet and standard plugs), the information technology side of the industry was treated as a set of unique requirements and developed as a set of custom systems that did not need to nor were designed to communicate with one another. Why, for instance, did it matter if information in a customer bill was kept in an industry standard format (and such formats don’t even exist) when such systems were inexpensive compared to a new substation and could be custom-developed to meet a utilities specific needs? Or why would it matter if the dispatch system for line workers communicated with a meter data sensing system when such systems didn’t even exist and the dispatch was its own “islanded” department in a utility?

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In order to develop a smarter grid one of the critical path issues is the standardization of the information technology communications in the industry. This enables more vendors to produce competing products, thus reducing the time and expense of implementing new systems while insuring lower maintenance costs and bringing the benefits of the best of breed applications to all utilities. But interoperability and standards in this industry are a complex undertaking for numerous reasons that this session will explore.

Reading Assignment for Week 5:Priority Reading:Course text:

Fox-Penner, chapters 5, 10 Sioshansi, chapters 5, 7-10, 17-19

Readings for the Smart Grid Meets Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges Module:Priority Readings:Web Links:

Broad, Dragoon, et al, Smart End-Use Energy Storage and Integration of Renewable Energy: A Pilot Project Overview, http://www.ecofys.com/files/files/ecofys_2012_smart-end-use-energy-storage_bpa_project_overview.pdf

Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Sixth Northwest Conservation and Power Plan, Appendix K The Smart Grid, http://www.nwcouncil.org/energy/powerplan/6/final/SixthPowerPlan_Appendix_K.pdf

BPA, Demand Response and BPA, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/Smart_Grid-Demand_Response/Smart_Grid/Resources_Links/DemandResponseNov2011-final.pdf

BPA, Smart Grid/Demand Response, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/Smart_Grid-Demand_Response/index.cfm

BPA, Smart Grid, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/Smart_GridDemand_Response/Smart_Grid/index.cfm;

BPA, Smart Grid Fact Sheet, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/Smart_Grid-Demand_Response/Smart_Grid/Resources_Links/SmartGrid-revisedJan%202012.pdf;

BPA, Fact Sheet-Demand Response and BPA, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/Smart_Grid-Demand_Response/Smart_Grid/Resources_Links/DemandResponseNov2011-final.pdf

Additional Recommended Reading:On D2L:

Hammarlund, -Electric Vehicles, the Smart Grid and Renewables IntegrationWeb link: Smart Grid News, FERC Unveils Proposed Rule Reforms for Integrating Renewable Energy

http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Technologies_DG_Renewables/FERC-unveils-proposed-rule-reforms-for-integrating-renewable-energy-3299.html

Reading for the Interoperability and the Smart Grid Module: Priority Reading:Web Links:

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Overview of the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Project http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Smart Grid: A Beginner’s Guide, http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/upload/SmartGrid_guide.pdf

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National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0, Chapters 1 and 2, http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/upload/NIST_Framework_Release_2-0_corr.pdf

GridWise Architecture Council, GridWise Interoperability Context-Setting Framework. March 2008, Chapters 1-3, http://www.gridwiseac.org/pdfs/interopframework_v1_1.pdf

Additional Recommended Reading: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Introduction to NISTIR 7628 Guidelines

for Smart Grid Cyber Security, chapter 1, http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/upload/nistir-7628_total.pdf

Week 6 (February 21) The Intersection of Electricity and Communications for the Smart Grid

Class Objectives:1. Develop a basic understanding of what utility System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is

used for today2. Understand how a utility SCADA System differs from a utility Energy Management System

(EMS) and why a utility EMS is completely different from a commercial building EMS.3. Have a deeper understanding of the control strategy options that are available for distributed

resources and demand response.4. Learn how PGE incorporated sophisticated communications to manage and control their

distributed generation, demand response and battery energy storage.5. Understand the role of communications for distribution automation.6. Gain appreciation for the “real world” opportunities and challenges that have emerged so far

with research and demonstration, and pilot testing of new smart grid communications systems.

Agenda:6:30 Class Announcements6:40 System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) today and Utility Energy Management Systems

(Lawrence)8:00 Break8:15 Use of sophisticated communications and controls for managing distributed energy resources.

PGE’s Salem Smart Power Project with energy storage. An introduction to distributed generation, microgrids/distribution automation and energy storage, Part 2 (Mark)

9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignment for Week 6:Priority Reading:Course text:

Fox-Penner, chapter, 9 Sioshansi, chapters 8-11

Web links: Wang, et al, “A survey on the communication architectures in smart grid,”; Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/netwis/papers/11wxk-comnet.pdf

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Additional Recommended Reading:D2L: FERC, Final Rule-Availability of E-Tag Information for Commission Staff NERC, Communications Standards NERC, Cyber Security Critical Cyber Asset Identification Standards Joint Electric Scheduling Subcommittee, Electronic Tagging Functional Specification

Week 7 (February 28) The Smart Grid Meets Consumers (Panel Discussion with Guest Speakers) Small Group Learning Community Session

Class Objectives1. Understand the factors that affect how Smart Grid is viewed by consumers2. Appreciate the role of consumer engagement in realizing Smart Grid benefits3. Consider approaches to connecting with consumers and influencing their energy behavior

Agenda6:30 Class Announcements6:40 Introduction to and overview of topic and panel (Michael)6:50 Patty Durand, Executive Director, Smart Grid Consumers Collaborative7:20 Bob Jenks, Executive Director, Citizens Utility Board of Oregon7:50 Lisa Magnuson, Senior Director of Marketing & Brand Programs, Silver Spring Networks8:20 Break, chat with guest speakers8:40 Moderated discussion and Q&A9:00 Small group learning community sessions with faculty and guest speakers9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignment for Week 7:Priority Reading: TBD by guest speakersCourse texts:

Fox-Penner, pages 186-188 Sioshansi, chapters 14-16

Web links: Lotich, Articulating Smart Grid Benefits to End-Consumers, The Energy Collective,

http://theenergycollective.com/slontoh/182666/super-bowl-outage-smart-grid Ebert, Customers Right to Be Wary of Smart Grid, http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-

transformer-january-4-2011,/ How many consumers still don't get smart grid? Survey says 54%, Smart Grid News,

http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Consumer_Engagement/How-many-consumers-don-t-get-smart-grid-Survey-says-54-5219.html#.URl0IKV0CkV

Tweed, 5 Ways to Sell the Smart Grid to Consumers, Greentechmedia, http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/5-ways-consumers-will-embrace-smart-grid

Durand, Cracking the consumer messaging code, Smart Grid News, http ://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Consumer_Engagement/Cracking- the-consumer-messaging-code-4944.html#.URl01qV0CkU

GridWise Global Forum, September 22, view session on Engaging the Consumer (Parts 1-3) http://www.gridwiseglobalforum.org/agenda/

Videos raising consumer concerns:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI&sns=em http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/05/smart-utility-meters.aspx?

e_cid=20121205_DNL_art_1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI

D2L: Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC), 2013 State of the Consumer Report, January 21,

2013 Durand, The Smart Grid Requires Educated Consumers, ElectricityPolicy.com Lineweber, Understanding Residential Customer Support for – and Opposition to – Smart Grid

Investments Yackira, Deleney, Sang and Binz-Smart Homes, Smart Customers-A Solid Case Study and Further

Thoughts, ElectricityPolicy.com SGCC, Smart Grid Consumer Benefits Fact Sheet (Smart Grid Benefits You Today… and

Tomorrow) SGCC, Spotlight on Low Income Consumers (Final Report) SGCC, Consumer Voices (Summary of Key Findings) Swaminathan and Ting, Customer Focused Approach to Implementing Smart Grid Applications

for Publicly Owned Utilities Levis, A Consumer Advocate Looks at Dynamic Pricing, Utility Services, and Consumers,

ElectricityPolicy.comAdditional Recommended Reading:Web links:

Fehrenbacher, Smart Meter Backlash, Again: This Time in Texas, http://gigaom.com/2010/03/10/smart-meter-backlash-again-this-time-in-texas/

Westoff, Confronting the Smart Meter and Health Issue Link, Greentechmedia, http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sg-health-issues

Silbey, Utility industry bets on smart grid by 2030, but concerns remain, SmartPlanet, http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/utility-industry-bets-on-smart-grid-by-2030-but-concerns-remain/11325

IBM-2011 Global Utility Survey Fact Sheet, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/uploads/1/IBM_2011_Global_Utility_Survey_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Valocchi, Juliano, and Schurr, Lighting the Way: Understanding the Smart Energy Consumer, IBM Global Business Services, https://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/gbs-emerging-energy-preferences.html

Valocchi, Schurr, Juliano & Nelson, Plugging in the Consumer: Innovating Utility Business Models for the Future, IBM Global Business Services, https://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/ibv_g510-7872-00_plugging_in.pdf

Berst, Feeling the Smart Grid Love, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/News_Commentary/Feeling-the-smart-grid-love-3506.html

Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, A Smart Grid Even a Child Can Understand, http://smartgridcc.org/consumer-engagement/a-smart-grid-even-a-child-can-understand

LaMonica, Are Consumers Ready for the Smart Grid http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10287240-54.html

California PUC, Independent PG&E Smart Meter Testing Website, http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Demand+Response/solicit.htm

D2L: Hemphill, Dynamic Pricing Programs at ComEd –– Data for a More Efficient Future,

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ElectricityPolicy.com Faruqui, For Customer Savings and Economic Efficiency, the Time for Dynamic Rates Is Now,

ElectricityPolicy.com Rokach, Smart Houses in a World of Smart Grids King, Prepaid Electricity Service: Smart Grid-Enabled Customer Choice, ElectricityPolicy.com Bunzel, Is Flat Fair? Faruqui, The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing Hogan, Fairness and Dynamic Pricing Hanser, On Dynamic Prices- A Clash of Beliefs? Alexander, Dynamic Pricing? Not So Fast! A Residential Consumer Perspective Brand, Dynamic Pricing for Residential Electric Customers- A Ratepayer Advocate’s Perspective Ablondi, Consumer Attitudes and the Benefits of Smart Grid Technologies Carson, Consumer Advocates at the Smart Grid Table Carson, Consumer Concerns About Smart Grid

Week 8 (March 7) Square Peg Meets Round Hole: The Smart Grid Meets Traditional Regulation and Stakeholder Politics (A Panel Discussion)

Class Objectives:1. Gain an appreciation for how traditional utility regulation poses obstacles to the development

and implementation of the Smart Grid.2. Explore the advantages and disadvantages of alternative strategies to address this dilemma.3. Additional objectives to be offered by guest speakers.

Agenda: 6:30 Class Announcements6:40 Introduction to and overview of topic and panel (Michael)6:45 Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of Smart Power, and Chairman Emeritus, The Brattle Group7:40 Break8:00 Andrew Campbell, Energy Policy Advocate and Advisor; former Senior Advisor to two California

Public Utilities Commission Commissioners; and Ron Binz, Principal, Public Policy Consulting, and Former Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission; Includes Q and A time

9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignment for Week 8:Course Texts:

Fox-Penner, chapters 5-6 Shoshansi, chapter 4

D2L: Faraqui, Fox-Penner, and Hledik, Quantifying Benefits-Modeling the Value of Various

Technologies and Applications Fox-Penner, Is Smarter Greener? Fox-Penner, Fix Utilities before the Need a Rescue Fox-Penner, The Smart Meter Backslide Binz and Mullen, Risk-Aware Planning and a New Model for the Utility-Regulator Relationship,

ElectricityPolicy.com California Public Utilities Commission, Excerpts of Decision on PG&E's Proposed Upgrade of

Smart Meter Program (Note from Andrew Campbell: “The excerpted 5 pages lays out the kinds of benefits the regulators are expecting to see from smart grid investments, describes

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legislative requirements, and sets other utility requirements.”) California Public Utilities Commission, Excerpts of Decision Directing Utilities to Develop and File

Smart Grid Investment Plans (Note from Andrew Campbell: “The excerpted 5 pages lays out the kinds of benefits the regulators are expecting to see from smart grid investments, describes legislative requirements, and sets other utility requirements.”)

Centolella, A Pricing Strategy for a Lean and Agile Electric Power Industry, ElectricityPolicy.comWeb links:

Jung, Nichols, and Rankin, Rethinking Regulation-Five Challenges to Aligning the Smart Grid and Utility Regulation, Smart Grid Oregon,http://www.smartgridoregon.org/Resources/Documents/Rethinking%20Regulation%20V6A%20011611.pdf

Berst, Google spending millions to influence smart grid regulations, SmartGridNews.Com, www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Policy_Regulation/Google-spending-millions-to-influence-smart-grid-regulations-5460.html#.USFqQKV0CN8

Berst, Silicon Valley: We Can Do the Smart Grid Better than You, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/End_Use_Efficiency/Silicon-Valley-We-can-do-smart-grid-better-than-you-5427.html#.USFrdKV0CN8

Helper, Google, Yahoo To Get Their Own Smart Grid with Help of Valley Think Tank, http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/01/15/google-yahoo-set-to-build-their-own.html?page=all

Peeples, The Next 10 Years: What We Can (and Can't) Expect from Regulators and Policymakers, SmartGridNews.com, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Policy_Regulation/Next-10-Years-What-we-can-and-can-t-expect-from-regulators-and-policy-makers-5348.html#.USFut6V0CN8

Dresselhuys, The Next Ten Years: Silver Spring Exec Insists We Need to Go Faster, SmartGridNews.com,http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/News_Commentary/The-Next-10-Years-Silver-Spring-Networks-exec-insists-we-need-to-go-faster-5335.html/?fpt#.USFtfaV0CN9

Enbysk, The Next 10 Years: Empowered "Digital Natives" Become a Force to Reckon With, SmartGridNews.com, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Consumer_Engagement/The-Next-10-Years-Empowered-digital-natives-become-a-force-to-reckon-with-5340.html/?fpt#.USFvH6V0CN8

Berst, Google Spending Millions to Influence Smart Grid Regulations, SmartGridNews.Com, www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Policy_Regulation/Google-spending-millions-to-influence-smart-grid-regulations-5460.html#.USFqQKV0CN8

Additional Recommended Reading:Web links:

Brown and Salter, Smart Grid Issues in State Law and Regulation, September, 2010, http://www.galvinpower.org/smart-grid-issues-state-law-regulation-white-paper

Schwartz, Regulatory Assistance Project, Smart Policies Before Smart Grids: How State Regulators Can Steer Investments Toward Customer-Side Solutions, August, 2010, http://raponline.org/docs/RAP_Schwartz_SmartGrid_ACEEE_paper_2010_08_23.pdf

Moskowitz and Schwartz, Regulatory Assistance Project, Smart Grid or Smart Policies-Which Comes First? July, 2009, http://www.raponline.org/docs/RAP_IssuesletterSmartGridPolicy_2009_07.pdf

Enbysk, The Next 10 Years: Where We’ve Come (And How it Shapes Where We’ll Be Going Next), SmartGridNews.com,

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http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/News_Commentary/The-Next-10-Years-Where-we-ve-come-from-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-ll-go-next-5331.html/?fpt#.USFwcKV0CN9

Stanton-Smart Grid Strategy: How Can State Commission Procedures Produce the Necessary Utility Performance? http://www.nrri.org/pubs/electricity/NRRI_smart_grid_strategy_feb11-05.pdf

D2L: Binz et al, How State Regulatory Policies Can Recognize and Address the Risk in Electric

Utility Resource Selection, Ceres Report Chassin, What Can the Smart Grid Do for You? And What Can You Do for the Smart Grid? Honebein et al, From Authority to Trusted Advisor-The Utility’s Changing Role,

ElectricityPolicy.com Rudden, Sustainable Utility Regulation and Socio-Economic Success, ElectricityPolicy.com

Week 9 (March 14) Tranactive Energy: The Future of the Smart Grid? (A Panel Discussion)

Class presentations on Group Assignment 2 Distribute and discuss Final Exam

Class Objectives:1. Develop a basic understanding of the electrical grid control architecture and its limitations in

integrating distributed renewable energy, intermittent energy sources, controllable loads, and prosumers into grid operations

2. Have a deeper understanding of the control strategy options that are available for distributed resources and demand response

3. Gain an appreciation for the challenge of re-thinking the way that the grid is managed in order to accommodate new power sources, new pricing models and consumer behaviors.

4. Understand the “real world” opportunities and challenges that have emerged so far with research and demonstration, and pilot testing of new smart grid architectural systems.

Agenda:6:40 Class announcements6:45 Distribute and discuss final exam: due March 21. 7:00 Introduction of Panel Speakers (James) 7:05 What is Transactive Energy and Why Does it Matter? (time includes 15 minutes Q&A) Dr. Ron

Melton, Project Director, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, GridWise® Architecture Council, and senior technical leader for Smart Grid Research and Development Projects, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

8:00 Break8:10 Transactive Control and It’s Importance to BPA and the Pacific Northwest (Terry Oliver, Chief

Innovation Officer, BPA) (time includes 15 Q&A)9:00 Class Presentations on Group Assignment 2 (facilitated by James)9:40 Adjourn Description:Over the past two years the GridWise® Architecture Council has been developing a body of knowledge aimed at addressing one of the major challenges to the electrical system. Traditionally, power system

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operations have been centrally managed with a focus on maintaining adequate capacity, power and reliability through bulk power markets, wholesale generation, and transmission centralized operations. Distribution and retail operations have generally been based on a one-way supply model with little or no operational or market-based mechanisms for adjusting the demand side of the system. This structure is inadequate for future high penetrations of intermittent renewable and distributed energy resources (DER) integrated conventionally or through micro-grids. Distributed and hierarchical controls, services and pricing methods spanning bulk power and distribution system operations, retail markets with coordinated reliability and economic objectives, are needed to enable the 21st century power system.

A number of research and development efforts related to Transactive Energy architecture, market designs, systems, services, pricing and standards are underway by universities, national labs, utilities and technology firms across the world. The term “transactive energy” is used here to refer to techniques for managing the generation, consumption or flow of electric power within an electric power system through the use of economic or market based constructs while considering grid reliability constraints. The term “transactive” comes from considering that decisions are made based on a value.

Transactive Energy has become a convenient “bucket” for collecting the various disparate efforts aimed at solving the architectural and policy challenges we are currently facing. Indeed, the very descriptions that have been used for “Smart Grid” turn out to describe what we are calling “Transactive Energy”. Think of Transactive Energy as simply the theory and practice of implementing some of the key concepts of the Smart Grid. Reading Assignment for Week 9:

Attend the January 28 Smart Grid Oregon Session on Transactive Energy (see http://www.smartgridoregon.org/Events?eventId=603878&EventViewMode=EventDetails)

Priority Reading:Course texts:

Fox-Penner, chapter 3 Shoshansi, chapters 9-11

Web links: CalTech Resnick Institute Report, September, 2012, Grid 2020: Towards a Policy of Renewable

and Distributed Energy Resources, http://resnick.caltech.edu/learn/docs/GRID_2020_Resnick%20Report.pdf

Cisco, Taft and Martini, Ultra Large-Scale Power System Control Architecture: A Strategic Framework for Integrating Advanced Grid Functionality, http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/energy/control_architecture.pdf

Marritz, Five-state, 11-participant PNW smart grid pilot is poised to show big benefits, http://electricitypolicy.com/news/5185-five-state,-11-participant-pnw-smart-grid-pilot-is-poised-to-show-big-benefits

D2L:Imhoff, Transactional Signals, Customer Engagement, and the Path Toward a Smarter, More Efficient Power Grid, ElectricityPolicy.comGroenfeldt, Big Data Meets The Smart Electrical Grid, Forbes

Additional Recommended Reading:Web link:• Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, 2011 Annual Report,

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http://www.pnwsmartgrid.org/docs/2011_annual_report.pdf

Week 10 (March 21) Smart Grid Jobs and Business Opportunities/Our Plans for Spring Term

The Challenge of Interoperability, Part 2 Class Evaluations and Receive Certificates of Completion Turn in Final Exam

Agenda:6:40 Class announcements6:45 Smart Grid Jobs and Business Opportunities (Dr. Robert Topping, Educational Consultant and

Co-chair, Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy Curriculum Committee)7:45 Break7:55 The Challenge of Interoperability, Part 2 (James Mater)8:40 Class Guidance to Faculty on Content and Approach for Spring Term Class (all of us)9:10 Class discussion on final exam questions 9:20 Complete course evaluations and distribute certificates of completion (all of us)9:40 Adjourn

Reading Assignment for Week 10Priority Reading:Web links:

KEMA for the GridWise Alliance, The US Smart Grid Revolution: Smart Grid Workfoce Trends 2011, http://www.gridwise.org/documents/GWA_2011_SG_Workforce_Trends_Overview.pdf

Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy (browse website), http://cleanenergyexcellence.org

American Public Power Association, Public Power Utilities: Ensuring Resources to Meet Projected Needs, http://www.publicpower.org/files/pdfs/workforceplanningforpublicpowerutilities.pdf

US Department of Energy, Workforce Trends in the Electric Utility Industry, http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/Workforce_Trends_Report_090706_FINAL.pdf

Arnold, et al for National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0 (at least skim to get a flavor) http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910824

D2L: BPA, 2011-2012 Talent Management StrategyHIRE Education Conference, Meeting Future Energy Workforce Challenges

Additional Recommended Reading: Pernick et al, Carbon Free Prosperity 2025- How the Northwest Can Create Green Jobs, Deliver

Energy Security, and Thrive in the Global Clean-Tech Marketplace (see especially chapter on Smart Grid) http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/carbon-free-prosperity-2025

Clean Edge, 2012 State Clean Energy Index, http://www.cleanedge.com/research/state-index Northwest Energy Efficiency Task Force, Work Group #5, Building the Energy Efficiency

Workforce of the Future, Final Report, http://www.nwcouncil.org/energy/neet/workgroups/5/Default.htm

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Pew Charitable Trusts, The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America, http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/compilations/the-clean-energy-economy-repowering -jobs-businesses-and-investments-across-america- 8589943002

Goldman, Peters, et al, Energy Efficiency Services Sector-Workforce Education and Training Need, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, (executive summary), http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/reports/lbnl-3163e.pdf

Other Course InformationOptional Field Trip: There will be an optional class field trip to view Portland General Electric’s Smart Grid-related facilities and control centers and speak with PGE experts. This field trip is scheduled for Saturday morning 16. More information will be provided in class.

Evaluation of student work: Course evaluations and grades will be based on student performance in four areas: the individual and group assignments as a whole will count for 40% of the grade, the take home final exam will count for 40%, and class participation, observance of due dates, and attendance will count for the remaining 20%. Students taking the course for professional development are strongly urged to participate actively in their small group learning communities. This is where a significant amount of your learning will take place. Some organizational sponsors may require an evaluation of performance as a condition for reimbursing course payment. Faculty will follow their direction and/or we will establish an understanding with the organizational sponsor. Unless the company sponsor advises us otherwise, we will assume that professional development students will not take the final exam. However, we will expect all students to participate in and complete other group and individual assignments. Faculty will ask all students to complete an anonymous evaluation of the small group leaning community process as a whole and of the participation level and performance of each small group member. This information will be factored into the evaluation of each student’s performance in the course.

Final exam:The take home final exam will be delivered in class on March 14; it will be due before the beginning of our final class on March 21. The exam will include one or more essay questions that seek to help you demonstrated that you have pondered over and integrated many of the key questions that we have addressed during the Winter term. Hopefully, it will also be a bit fun. Further instructions will be included with the exam. Unless arrangements have been made with the faulty well in advance, late assignments and exams will be assessed a late penalty of one grade increment for every day late. Please plan your schedule accordingly. Grades re due on March 26 so the faculty will have limited time to read and comment on the final exam. As a result, it is important that it is posted on time. Please observe posted instructions about avoiding plagiarism.

Attendance and Etiquette: Please email Jeff Hammarlund and Lisa Harrison in advance if you will need to miss a class session. Arrange for someone else in class to pick up the class handouts for the missed session. Please come to class on time and turn all cell phones off.

Faculty office hours: Jeff Hammarlund: Wednesday 1-3 pm and by appointment, 503-249-0240 and hammarj@pdx.eduLawrence Beaty, beatkawr@isu.edu, 208-282-3265

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Michael Jung: By appointment, mjung@silverspringnet.com, 503-360-3881James Mater: By appointment, jmater@qualitylogic.com, 503-780-9796Mark Osborn, mark.osborn@fivestarsintl.com, 503-709-937

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