| Mar | Mar |
| 7 | 9 |
Where:
The Westin San Diego
San Diego, California
About:
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is pleased to present its next educational program in the Grid ComForum series of events entitled GCF West 2012.
Hosted by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), GCF West will provide a unique conference for electric power utilities, vendors, and suppliers involved in Smart Grid technology deployment.
The meeting will be broken down into two parts. March 7, 2012, consists of a SDG&E programming day reserved for SDG&E employees and official program sponsors.
March 8-9, 2012, will be open to the industry as a whole and will deal with the critical business issues of deployment and management of Smart Grid technology.
Topics:
- 21st Century Energy Perspectives
- Policy and Regulation
- Smart Grid Technology Roadmap
- Key Challenges Beyond Early Smart Grid Projects
- Use of Commercial Cellular Versus Private Networks in Smart Grid Communications
- Open the Grid: Developing a Multi-Application Field Area Network Architecture to Drive Smart Grid Interoperability
- Rates in a Smart Grid World
- Consumer Engagement: The Wisdom of Experience
- Cyber Security in Power and Utilities: Landscape, Regulatory Challenges, Emerging Threats
- Next Generation Dynamic Load Management
- Evolving Federal and State Utility Telecomm Issues
- The Smart MicroGrid Paving the Future at UCSD
- Managing Smart Metering Communications and Performance
- Vehicles as Grid Storage: V1G Questions and V2G Implications
- Data Analytics for Converged Utility Networks
- The Status of Market Integration of Distributed Energy
- What’s Now and What’s Next in Cyber Security?
- Renewable Energy Integration – Improving the Planning and Operational Toolkit
- Customer Energy Data
