Alright. I think everybody has muted online.
Perfect. (item:1:Welcome)Well, welcome to the inaugural meeting of
the ADER Task Force. I'm Jason Ryan. Thanks for
being here today. I have the pleasure of sharing the
efforts of the task force put together by the commission
And one of the first things we're gonna do is have
each one of them come up and introduce themselves sitting
here at the microphone right next to me. We won't do
this every meeting, but I think it's important that
you all are able to get to know the task force members
So we'll do that kind of clunky introduction uh to
start before we jump into that. Uh let me just remind
you that there is a public comment form available outside
So if you want to address the task force during the
public comment period, please fill out that form and
just bring it up. Uh so we're pretty informal. So don't
feel like you can't do it right in the middle of when
we're talking, you can uh please do that. There's also
a Power Point presentation outside and an agenda all
of that was posted uh in the project um uh last week
and earlier today the Power point presentation was
posted, but if you need a copy, uh they are outside
uh before we get started. I think it's important to
note that the charter provides in section 4 that
The commission strictly prohibits members of the task
force and their employees and other entities or persons
that may participate in task force activities from
using their participation in Task force activities
as a forum for engaging in practices or communications
that violate applicable antitrust laws. As a result
the task force representatives and their member organizations
are committed to full compliance with federal and state
antitrust laws and to maintain the highest ethical
standards in the way that we conduct our activities
We will start every task force meeting going forward
with a reminder about antitrust compliance. So with
that,(item:2:Introductions and Roll Call) let me go ahead and ask each task force member
in the order that they're presented on the screen behind
me uh, to come up and introduce themselves. I'll start
with myself.(item:2:Jason Ryan Centerpoint) I'm Jason Ryan, Executive Vice President
at Centerpoint Energy. Centerpoint Energy operates
electric and natural gas utilities throughout the mid
continent, including a large transmission distribution
utility here in texas in the Houston area,
(item:2:Alex Ramirez, AEP Texas) Alex Ramirez, I'm part of the ap Texas transmission
distribution utility uh title the Director of utility
technology solutions focused in our both uh, Texas
north and Texas Central regions. Thank you. Thank you
Good afternoon.(item:2:Andrew Higgins, CPS Energy) Andrew Higgins with CPS Energy in san
Antonio texas, the largest municipally owned utility
in the United States in terms of electric and gas customers
Um I'm the senior director for products and services
and glad to be on the on the task force. Thank you
(item:2:John Padalino, Bandera Electric Cooperative) Good afternoon. I'm john Padalino, I'm the general
counsel and Chief Administrative Officer for Bandeira
Electric Cooperative. We serve seven counties uh northwest
of san Antonio texas uh delivering electricity to over
40,000 m. We have 28,000 members and over 10,000 fiber
to the home subscribers. Um We are also a DER Provider
and a technology solution provider. And we're excited
to be on the task force.
(item:2:Martha Henson, Oncor) Good afternoon. I'm Martha Henson from Oncor Director
of regulatory affairs. Um Oncor is the largest T&D
utility in the state and I work on a variety of policy
issues for the company in the ERCOT space,
(item:2:Arushi Sharma Frank, Tesla) Arushi Sharma Frank with Tesla. I'm the vice chair for the
task force, will be Jason's right hand for a lot of
the proceedings. And um as you all know, Tesla ran
the voluntary virtual power plant that got us here eventually
to a task force and a mission to unlock some of this
value of Texas (item:2:Jayden Crawford for James McGinniss, David Energy) So, Mr Mcginniss with David Energy has
a proxy today, Jayden Crawford, I believe your online
I'll let you introduce yourself. Thank you Jayden Crawford
Director of policy for David Energy. Uh David Energy
is a retail electricity provider that uses our own
software platform to connect to distribute energy resources
and leverage them directly into power markets. Thank
you.
(item:2:David Lee, Octopus Energy) Hi everyone, Michael Lee with octopus Energy, octopus
Energy is a competitive retailer globally. We're in
about a dozen different countries here in the U. S
We are also a retailer based out of Houston. I'm the
US Ceo, we have about 3.5 million customers globally
underneath our brand and D. E. R. S is a big piece
of what we'd like to incorporate into our retail products
Thank you.
(item:2:Ned Bonkowski, Vistra) Good afternoon. Uh My name is Ned Bonkowski. I'm the
vice president of Texas regulatory policy for vista
vista is the parent company of a number of retail providers
providing service to more than two million customers
in the competitive areas of texas as well as active
in retail in states across the country. Um we've been
following this process closely, we're very excited
to participate and uh learn a lot along the way. So
thanks for having me.
Mhm. (item:2:Resmi Surendran, Shell Energy North America) Um Good afternoon. My name is Resmi Surendran I am VP of regulatory
affairs challenge in North America and we have been
actively participating in the U. S. Energy market for
the last 25 years in different aspects as a retail
provider, as hedge provider for generation building
as generation provider for other retailers for co ops
form Younis uh for big C. N. I. Uh Shell Energy and
all of its affiliates are really excited to be part
of this pilot and we are committed to making this a
great success, especially the affiliate Shell Energy
Solutions which is the retailer and one of the biggest
uh DER providers in and Shell Recharge which provides
E. V charging facility and infrastructure and Sonnen
which provides batteries and VPP service. So thanks
for having us in this uh important pilot.
Amy Hart, you're up next.
(item:2:Amy Hart, Sunrun) Hey folks, good afternoon, this is Amy Hart vice president
of policy with Sunrun. Apologies for not being able
to be in the room with you. Um, this afternoon
Sunrun is a residential solar battery and charger provider
um largest in the country has been providing families
with solar and batteries since 2017 in Texas happy
to be with you today.
J. T.
(item:2:JT Thompson, Generac Grid Services) Good afternoon. J. T. Thompson Senior Vice president
of sales for Generac Grid Services. Actually based
in uh down 290 in Houston. Um so easy for me
to get here I guess, but Generac Grid Services is
really a business unit within the broader Generac
family that has been built to help bridge the gap between
the assets that we have been selling for years and
continue to sell both in fossil generation and batteries
and thermostats With wholesale market opportunities
and utility programs uh to benefit both grid and customer
and for the state of Texas that represents well over
432,000 assets that generate has sold uh, and are in
uh, you know in the market here. So glad to be a
part of this and looking forward to the discussion
Thank you.
(item:2:Joel Yu, Enchanted Rock) Good afternoon Joel You vice president policy for
enchanted rock where a Houston based micro grid developer
owner and operator with over 500 megawatts of resiliency
capacity in deployment across Texas I'm glad to be
here. Thank you.
(item:2:John Bonnin, AutoGrid) Yes, Jon bonin and I represent AutoGrid, which is
a leading provider of V. P. P. Software as well as
demand response management systems. It's a technology
agnostic approach to integrating um all the different
DRS that are available in a certain territory into
a single control system that has the flexibility to
dispatch into the market and do M and V. So um very
interested in the work of this task force because we
really believe this is the future where energy is heading
Thanks. Thank you Suzanne. I know you're online if
you can introduce yourself. Yes. Thanks Jason.(item:2:Suzanne Bertin, TAEBA) Uh Suzanne
Burton, I am an independent consultant based in Austin
but unfortunately not there today. I am representing
Texas advanced energy Business alliance or TAEBA in
this proceeding. And TAEBA represents the business
voice of all of the technologies that are working to
make the grid more secure, clean, reliable and affordable
So it's large scale as well as distributed energy technologies
uh that cover the full range of d er so very interested
in this proceeding and looking forward to working with
everyone. Thank you.
(item:2:Carmen Best, Recurve Analytics) Hello, my name is Carmen Best and I'm representing
Recurve Analytics. Recurve is a software platform that
provides a settlement services using an open source
M and V construct for being able to settle any range
of distributed energy resources for um their interaction
with the grid and also building the bridge with customer
settlement. Um I also have background in measurement
and verification as a as an evaluator at public utilities
commission as past experience. So I look forward to
contributing both my professional and our um companies
perspectives to the task force. ErIC you're up next
(item:2: Erik Ela, EPRI) this is Eric Ela with the Electric power Research
Institute. We conduct R and D. On behalf of the electricity
industry across the globe. My role at EPRI has
been um leading the research around electricity market
evolution and emerging technology integration. So happy
to participate. Sorry, I can't be there in person.
Thank you.
(item:2:Margo Weisz, TEPRI) Hello, I'm Margo Weisz. I'm the executive director
of temporary it's Texas Energy poverty Research institute
and we advanced solutions for affordable, reliable
and sustainable energy for low income households. Were
super interested in how DERS can support low income
Texans and really excited to be part of this. Thank
you professor you are up next.
(item:2:Texas A&M Professor?) My name is which I'm Department head of Electrical
and Computer engineering and uh professor of Power
Engineering. Uh former president of Power and Energy
Society and associate director of our smart grid center
with seven members of National Academy of Engineering
and 2100 students. We are the largest producer of our
engineers in texas and one of the largest in the nation
(item:2:Scott Henson, Pecan Street)Thank you. Hi I'm scott Henson. I'm the CTO of Pecan
Street. We're a nonprofit based here in austin texas
We have for the past 10 years instrumented and performed
d er pilot projects funded by D. O. E. And corporate
cooperative research agreements. We get about seven
billion data points a day from our network of residential
participants on how they use and produce energy. Thank
you.
I want to thank the task force members for having 100%
attendance at today's meeting. As you may know. The
task force came together on Friday of last week. So
this is this is Wednesday I think that shows you the
dedication of this group of people if you've been following
the work in this project. Uh and the work of the commission
on this, the work of ERCOT and this other market participants
Or if you're just new um to to this I'll say we
have a lot of work in front of us uh and we
have a lot of brain power among the task force. So
I'm confident that we will start to make headway. In
fact when we get to the update on our work I can
update you on the progress that we've already made
just a few short hours into being this task force.
So thank you all for having 100% attendance of the
task force today. Um before we move on I wanna turn
it over to Arushi um to see if she has any remarks as
the Vice chair of this group of professionals. And
then obviously uh Commissioner Mcadams may have a couple
of things he wants to say to start us off and then
I'll talk about the task force charter, Thank you,
(item:2:Vice Chair Comments - Arushi Frank, Tesla) Jason. Just a couple of reminders of how we got here
Um so the initial document that created the momentum
for and the scope for the pilot and the work of the
task force is the july 13 memo issued by Commissioner
Mcadams and Commissioner got felt he jointly um since
that memo was issued we now have a new project number
for the PUC where all of our records are meeting
notes, any comments that come in after meetings like
the one today, uh any copies of power points that are
delivered publicly in the many work shops we hope to
organize and invite the public to learn about what
we're doing and what some of the essential concepts
are and lessons learned are from these types of programs
operating other markets, you know how we bring that
all here into the Texas regulatory framework, all of
that will be coming um shortly after this meeting.
So there will be a lot of work being generated by us
that will be shared with the public. Um and then that
that project number for those who don't know already
is 53911. If you're looking for some of the genesis
comments on DRS and integrating those in texas 51603
is the docket um where the first memo was filed
um and then finally the charter itself, which Jason
will talk about is really our first organizational
document it lists the members of our task force and
we'll get into detail. One of the things that I want
to mention is that really the first goal for us as
a team is to figure out what we do to get something
done by the end of the year. Um that will allow us
to just get Megawatts in the market. All of the objectives
we have about studying the impact of the distribution
system, studying reliability, value, studying cost
allocation, studying the effect effectiveness of DPP
is providing service to the grid. We're not gonna have
any of that data if we don't know the Megawatts in
Um so hopefully having this pilot exist for um more
than a few months really we're looking at a few years
for the duration, it will allow us to get Megawatt
in the market um study impact, collect some good data
maybe get some third part, third party research or
independent reporting done on what that data means
and formalize this into ERCOT rules that will enable
this permanently in the market. (item:2:Commissioner McAdams comments) Thank you Arushi, thank
you Jason on behalf of the commission, I want to thank
all participants who have agreed and volunteered to
serve on the task force. Uh it was not an easy selection
process on the part of myself and Commissioner Glotfelty
to uh finally delineate um who should participate
at this juncture as made clear in the founding document
of the uh that will govern um the task force. Uh there
is opportunity for an iterative process for participation
on the part of stakeholders. Uh we are attempting to
launch something that has occurred in and other systems
around the world and around the country to a certain
degree, but to take that next step and apply lessons
learned in a constructive way to where as as previously
said, we can get new Megawatt into this market at a
time when they are badly needed. The overall goal of
this task force is to allow the left hand on the right
hand of our systems, the transmission system and the
distribution system coordinators on the part of market
and uh those utilities such as center point to effect
communicate and coordinate on an operational and technical
basis to allow this this new frontier of megawatts
to be entered into the system and be paid for it. So
we look forward to the progress report from this task
force and and again are very thankful
(item:2:Jason Ryan comments) thank you commissioner for your leadership on this
topic. These kinds of things don't just happen. Um
So so thank you for for making today happen and and
the task force happen with that.(item:3:Overview of Charter) I'll go to agenda
item number three, which is gonna be a brief overview
of the charter. The Charter for the task force was
filed in the project uh last week as was the slide
deck that will walk through. Um I won't read every
word on here. Um I uh suggest especially those on the
task force, take a look at the entire document and
don't just take my words on the screen for uh for what
exactly the charter says. Um I'll start with the purpose
and scope of the charter. So it makes clear that the
purpose of the task force uh is to make recommendations
on the proposed ADER Pilot program will do that
through providing guidance to ERCOT on what we see
as necessary and critical to the governing document
that will um govern the eventual pilot program. Well
we won't stop there though, that's that's a big mile
marker in our journey. Uh and we'll talk about the
timeline for that but this task force will continue
its work beyond that to develop the business procedures
for the pilot program itself, to provide a forum for
market participants to continue uh to provide feedback
uh and requirements for the pilot program to be successful
on day one and to be successful uh in a permanent future
state. Uh We will also provide the commission with
quarterly reports on the status of the pilot program
and any recommendations that we have as it relates
to ERCOT protocols or puc rules. Um I should note uh
here at the bottom of the slide, I think it's important
that uh we will make sure that this uh pilot program
benefits and does not harm the distribution system
So every now and then uh in this deck I pull out
some things that I think are important to point out
and I think that's an important grounding principle
that stated in our charter.
The next section of the Charter describes the participation
of the members of the task force. So you met all 20
of them today. Uh there are five retail electric providers
five transmission and distribution service providers
There are also five distributed energy resource providers
or aggregators. And then there are five groups of folks
that we believe bring a lot of helpful information
to the table. I think it's also important to point
out that not every uh market participant is represented
on the task force, um but the task force does not provide
any sort of preferential treatment uh for participation
in the pilot program and an ability to participate
in the pilot program is independent of Task force participation
That's another important thing that is set out in the
charter. You've met me and Arushi your your chair and
vice chair. Uh we are responsible for a couple of things
including uh filing notes of our meetings in the project
uh using best efforts to gain majority consensus among
the task force uh members on the topics that we're
trying to tackle. the charter sets out a path for if
we fail to achieve uh majority consensus, bringing
that to the commission's attention to the extent it
creates risk to the pilot project itself. And then
if any member of the task force has an objection to
where we're headed with the majority consensus, there's
a route for them to make that dissent known again in
the the project itself.
So you're here at one of our meetings. So the charter
describes how we will meet. Um we we have to meet formally
in this kind of a setting at least once a month until
the governing document is approved by ERCOT
Thereafter, we will meet formally at least quarterly
um but again, whether it's before the governing document
is completed or after, uh we can meet as we can meet
formally as often as we need to to get our work done
notices of those formal meetings and the agendas will
be posted in the project, just like uh the agenda for
this meeting was posted last week. Task Force members
may participate remotely, although I have stressed
a desire for in person participation to the greatest
extent possible. And you've seen a tremendous amount
of that today, just a couple hours after everybody
was appointed or they may appoint a proxy for a particular
meeting. We have a goodly number of our folks online
today. And so this is uh we're showing you in real
time how we will conduct our business in a hybrid format
to make sure we have the greatest participation from
Task Force members these meetings and this this meeting
that we're in right now is being broadcast online.
Uh and all of our formal meetings will be broadcast
online public comment uh is permitted And we, as I
mentioned at the beginning, have a process today for
public comment. Just another plug for that if you want
to fill out a form uh in the back all presentations
including the one that we're going through right now
will also be uh filed in the project. Uh So this gives
you an idea that we are being as transparent as we
possibly can right? And the charter sets up uh exactly
what the transparency expectations of the commission
are with respect to our work. Um We also have the ability
to convene public workshops and close technical work
group sessions outside of these kind of formal meetings
We actually had one of those work sessions uh this
morning with the task force and I'll report on that
at the next agenda item.
So I mentioned we have some reports that we have to
to make, the task force has to prepare quarterly reports
to the commission. Our first one is due on september
26th, uh and then uh and that report will have recommendations
with respect to the governing document with the goal
of having ERCOT address the governing documented at
its october board of Directors meeting
The Charter next describes the duration of the task
force and I've already alluded to the fact that this
task force is uh tackling the governing document right
now but uh that is not the only thing this task force
will do. This task force will meet until the completion
of the ADER Pilot program uh which could be up
to three years as set forth in the in the charter prior
to the completion of the pilot program. This task force
will recommend next steps for the puc to consider regarding
permanent integration of ADER into the market.
So you've met the current members of the task force
membership will be addressed uh and reviewed by the
commission every year. Uh As part of that process,
the commission may ask uh Arushi or I for a record
of membership participation um and things happen during
the course of a year so a member may need to resign
uh or a member could be removed if they're not actively
participating in the event. Any of that happens uh
Prior to those every year reviews the puc may initiate
a nomination and selection process just like it did
to establish this initial task force.
Finally, the charter sets out an antitrust admonition
I read most of the words on this slide to you at
the beginning of our meeting today, it's an important
reminder for our companies that we will begin every
meeting with.
That takes you through uh the charter itself. Um I
invite Arushi or any of our task force members to say
anything they want to about the charter. I think it's
fairly self explanatory though, I just have one clarification
thank you, Jason. Um in the memo, the duration of the
pilot is described as the pilot should continue until
implementation of ERCOT Market rules to accommodate
aggregation or until ERCOT deems the pilot project
unnecessary. We expect a minimum of three years which
will allow for incorporation of E. M. S. Upgrades,
testing of customer migration and qualifying resources
for ERCOT services. It's really our hope is that uh
the pilot is a dynamic scalable and flexible program
that allows the market product to exist from the moment
that the pilot exists and getting more sophisticated
over time and also be respectful of other projects
and the priorities ERCOT has so that we can get these
megawatts into market while also leveraging many of
the phase one market design blueprint rules and requirements
that have come out of both legislative work and the
work of this commission over the past year. I really
hope that this is yet another tool in the pretty immense
toolkit that we are furiously working towards following
storm Uri, thank you
any other members have anything they want to add
again. I recommend you review the charter. Happy to
answer any questions that you may have about it. Feel
free to email me my contact information in the project
(item:4:Update on the Task Force Work)Uh well next talk about an update on the work of the
task force as I mentioned, uh we are newly assembled
but we've already hit the ground running uh going forward
These formal meetings will mostly be talking about
this section, what can we tell you about the progress
that we have made? Uh So although today it'll be rather
brief in this section going forward, this will be where
we spend the bulk of our time. I can tell you that
what we have planned for the next two weeks is a series
of workshops uh that the task force members will participate
in and that will also be open to the public. We will
post information on logistics on how how to tune in
uh in the project. So if you're interested in attending
those workshops please uh look for it there. We will
hear from ERCOT about some Ancillary services information
um We will hear from um the transmission system providers
about um some basic information that ever all of the
task force members need to understand about the pilot
program and its effect on the distribution system.
We will hear from some of the aggregators on their
expectations uh and customer expectations um from a
pilot. Uh And so I recommend that everyone interested
uh tune in to those. These are learning sessions to
make sure that we hear from experts on these topics
as an entire task force so that we can keep this in
mind as we do our important work. We'll also have more
of a discussion session about um any puc rules, provisions
of the utilities code um provisions in ERCOT protocols
uh that we may need to be mindful of um as we
develop this pilot program, any potential changes that
may need to be made uh to those uh rules and laws
to enable what we want this pilot program to be. So
that's less of an education session, more of a discussion
session, we'll we'll invite uh some experts to come
in and help us have that discussion. So those four
workshops will be held hopefully in the next two weeks
Uh That's our our goal is to get that work done before
labor day weekend. Uh So keep an eye out for that.
Uh We also agreed that uh in addition to those workshops
the different segments that you saw up here and uh
that that members belong to will get together uh in
their own workshops to talk about must haves from their
perspective in the pilot program that will help us
provide input to ERCOT on what we expect to see in
the ERCOT governing document and will help us marry
up the task force activity with ERCOT activity developing
that governing document. Uh And those kind of must
have expectations uh for the governing document is
something that I expect will spend a lot of time talking
about at our next official meeting. So really good
organizational discussion about our path forward over
the next two weeks because everything I just described
uh needs to happen before Labor Day. Uh So uh you'll
you'll all the task force members that came up here
and those online will will all be spending quite a
bit of time to make meaningful progress before our
next meeting.
I want to pause and ask Arushi or anybody else if I
have left anything out that you want to add.
Um So as I mentioned at the beginning, a lot of work
to do, but I think we have the right people uh and
there is a sense of purpose uh to move forward. I encourage
us all to continue moving forward with the bias towards
um getting this pilot program off the ground on the
timeline set forth in the charter. I have every um
reason to believe that this group will be able to do
that with the work in front of us over the next two
weeks.
(item:5:High level Deadlines) So with that I'll turn to just high level um deadlines
that's also in in the slide um
There you go.
Uh So we have our next meeting like this on the 12th
of september which may sound like a really long time
from now. Uh It is not so we will do all the
work I just described over the next two weeks. That
will then give us a week of additional task force work
before we are back uh in our official meeting on the
12th of from 3 to 5 p.m. So keep an eye out
for the agenda there. We will go into a lot more detail
about the work that's done. We also as I mentioned
we have our first quarterly report due um on the 26th
which will also be here before we all know it. So lots
of good work um coming up
as I mentioned this uh these sections are gonna be
where we spend the bulk of our time. I know it was
a little light today because the task force just got
started with that.(item:6:Task Force Member announcements) Let me turn it over to task force
members to the extent you want to bring anything uh
to the attention of uh folks in the room, folks watching
online. Um interesting things coming up to watch out
for in addition to our work. Uh and I'll turn it over
to first and then any other member that wants to make
an announcement under agenda item number six. Thank
you. Uh only announcement I have is that today is the
first day that the Tesla virtual power plant and potentially
others um in California that are operating under the
emergency Load reduction program, we will be participating
in a great emergency event. The California also issued
a flex alert about four days ago, that will be in effect
today from 4 to 9 p.m. Uh two different virtual PowerPoint
providers if they are participating in the California
program will be um their customers will be all individually
elected and you can see a lot of customers have shared
their excitement and photos of their participation
on twitter and elsewhere on social media will be dispatching
their DER Systems and providing Megawatt back to
the grid just for a little perspective on um how these
programs grow. For Tesla we had about 2000 enrollments
within a matter of weeks when we announced the program
as a pilot. Uh and now it's a formal program and I
think we're probably going to get about 10 megawatts
back to the grid across our service territory. Um I
think you'll see from looking at other DER Providers
perspectives too. So once these programs are designed
well enrollment is a pretty fabulous experience for
the customer. You flip it on. Um If you want to participate
if you'd like to opt out an event, you should be able
to click a button and opt out of the event. Um It
provides a ton of great real time information for operations
And one of the public educational workshops that Jason
mentioned will be organizing. Tesla will present
some of the outcomes and some of the operational factoids
around today's event and how ours and other customers
with other programs participated. So that will be a
fun one for us to get some learnings from and share
Thank you, Arushi. Any other task force members have
anything they want to share for the good of the cause
Yeah, I'll pause online to see if anybody has anything
Alright, thank you for that. (item:7:Public Comment) We'll next go into public
comment if you haven't already filled out a form and
make another plug for it. Uh We first have Smitty who
has submitted a form to talk. I'll let you come and
sit up here just like the task force members did if
you would uh state your name and who you're with and
what you want to say.
(item:7:Tom Smith, TxTRA) Good afternoon everybody. My name is tom smith or Smitty
I am the executive director of the texas Electric Transportation
resources Alliance and wanted to share with you some
thoughts about how E. V. S. Can participate. Um It's
Russia has recently said Tesla is already doing that
in the pilot pilot manner out in California responding
to a grid emergencies. And we've had a recent presentation
by one of our members who works for a Big Eight consulting
firm I guess aren't eight of them anymore. Uh Financial
firm um That says between, we could uh dispatch between
nine and 45% of the E. V. Batteries that will have
available and by 2030 guesstimates are maybe 22 gigawatts
of total energy stored in batteries. How much of that
can be dispatched is going to be determined by a lot
of the pilot programs that are going on. Um The good
news is this can be managed. The bad news is we need
ways to plug in and we're excited to work with this
task force, we'd like to offer a couple of resources
one of the groups that had applied for and was not
able to get a membership on this task force because
you had a number of other well qualified applicants
is the Vehicle to Grid Integration Council. Um They're
based in California and have worked on a number of
um projects similar to this in massachusetts, new york
and in in the state that begins with C that we will
not say in this room. Um They they have worked with
and has integrated successfully vehicles into a backup
energy system. The other thing that you now have been
able to do have been able to do is to look at
things that are ready to go today, and I think you've
heard excellent presentations from Dr Robert Krukshank
uh about two different uh systems that are wired into
almost everybody's homes or into their cars. Um the
wifi system uh that is used to figure out when you
want to watch a movie on demand or and how much it
cost and uh whether you might get credit for various
purchases and so forth. So the dispatch um and the
monitoring system and the billing systems are all in
place, ready to go by simply putting in the address
of the the aggregator into your automobile or as it
is for your smart appliances. You're smart thermostats
Similarly, KUT, about 10 years
ago was engaged in a system where they dispatched
appliances through Austin Energy pilot program using
a subsignal on their systems. I don't know that
this number is right, this is a smitty remembers rather
than smitty looked it up this morning Um but about
80% of Texas is uh in the reach of public radio that
has the capacity to share that signal to dispatch resources
And then by watching your smart meter data, be able
to determine whether it worked. And conversely there
are systems available where you can take a look at
the day ahead market put together a bid through an
aggregator and then be able to control people's appliances
So these are all technologies that are are ready to
roll in the case of electric vehicles are ready to
dispatch in the case of the stuff that's on your wall
or in your refrigerator and it seems like we ought
to do it so we can help you provide contacts with those
resources if you don't have them. But there are tools
that are in our toolbox, let's use them. Thank you
for your time. Thank you. Smitty will definitely be
reaching out to you to help set up a discussion with
that organization as I mentioned before. Um our work
extends beyond the governing document and so we will
have a lot of opportunities to have discussions with
external groups like the one you mentioned uh that
can help us accelerate our learning and get ready for
a successful pilot program with that. There are no
other public comments.(item:8:Date and Topic of Next Meeting) So I'll move to agenda item
number eight, which I've already previewed for you
which is that there is a meeting of this task force
officially, again, just like today on the 12th of september
so to keep an eye out on the agenda for that, and
I'll ask if Commissioner McAdams have anything
else for the good of the cause before we adjourn. (item:8:Closing Comments Commissioner McAdams) So
I just wanna highlight the regrets of Commissioner
jimmy, guilty for not being able to be here today.
He is delivering his daughter to college and uh son
oh sorry, sorry, I missed that mark the other day,
I think I blanked out amongst other things. Um but
now he is delivering a child to college and um that's
a big day and uh he's in the right place, but his
heart is here with us and he will certainly is certainly
looking forward to participating in the future technical
and public workshops. So the only other thing from
the commission is uh good luck to this task force.
Um it's, you've got a long way to go in a short
time to get there and uh a lot of work to be
done, but it's the right group of people. Um this group
is also not uh closed again to future iterations, we
will need more resources, more expertise, uh given
the objectives of this task force to expand the pool
of qualified megawatts and hopefully offer up to the
system viable resources that can help meet our future
needs. So again, thank you. And good luck, Thank you
commissioner. Um, I just wanna say thank you to the
commission personnel that helped us have this, um,
hybrid meeting, uh, and and it went off without a hitch
Uh, so thank you for everybody that helped do that
With that we are adjourned. We'll see you again on
12 September.