U.S. Energy Collaborative Analysis Leadership Committee Discussion Issues Meeting

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U.S. Energy Collaborative Analysis Leadership
CommitteeDiscussion Issues Meeting 1

• Ron Benioff, Karlynn Cory,
• and Gail Mosey NREL
• 1/30/07

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Agenda Goals

• U.S. Energy Collaborative Analysis Initiative
  (ECAI) Goals and Leadership Committee Roles
• ECAI Workshop 2 Preparation Strategy and
  Topics
• GOAL Select topics and identify list of invitees
• Discuss ECAI Web Forum Topics and Speakers
• GOAL Select topics for next Web Forums
• Updates on Analysis Activities
• Next Steps

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Collaborative Analysis Goals

• Develop and maintain a collective multi-year
  vision for addressing key energy analysis issues
  over the next 5 years.
• Identify specific opportunities for analysis
  collaboration (in next 1-2 years)
• Leverage common energy analysis through a shared
  strategy

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The Concept
We all have energy analysis activities we
are conducting planning
For common analysis areas, we can 1) Collaborate
on analysis scope 2) Leverage resources and
capabilities 3) Share analysis results and
outreach
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ECAI Approach

• Identify organizations with energy analysis as a
  primary interest and research common analysis
  needs and interests
• Convene Energy Collaborative Analysis Workshop 1
  (June 2006)
• Launch Ongoing Collaboration (July 2006)
• Collaborate on energy analysis activities
  (ongoing)
• Hold web forums to share data, methodologies (Jan
  07)
• Organize and launch newsletter and website (Jan
  07)
• Establish Leadership Committee, Refine Approach
  (Jan 07)
• Convene Energy Collaborative Analysis Workshop 2
  (June 2007)

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Leadership Committee Roles

• Provide Guidance on
• Collaborative Analysis Approach and Scope
• Workshop 2 Topics, Agenda, Participants, and
  Preparatory and Follow-Up Work
• Web Forums Topics and Speakers
• Communication Activities (Newsletter, website)
• Serve as Leaders for the U.S. Energy
  Collaborative Analysis Initiative
• Questions and Comments

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Workshop Structure

• Attachment 1
• Length 1.5 days?
• Timing June?
• Location Washington, DC?
• Participants 50-60? (80-90 invitees?)
• Guest lunch speaker None?
• Informal dinner on Day 1 Organize?
• Paid for by each participant
• Recommended Format Collaboration - share
  analysis data, methodologies and results
• Cost Free for all participants
• Funding DOE as lead sponsor are others
  willing to provide co-funding?

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Workshop Format

• Feedback request Introduce ECAI Vision to
  participants, or have separate session to
  discuss?
• Focus on six analysis topics
• Concurrent sessions to hear presentations on
  current analysis activities and discuss potential
  collaboration opportunities
• 3 presentations on energy analysis assumptions,
  methodology and results by participants
• During second half of each session
• Hold a broader discussion to identify gaps in
  analysis and potential improvements to existing
  data, information and tools
• Identify opportunities for collaborating on this
  topic
• Identify concrete steps and leaders for follow-on
  activities.

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Draft Workshop Agenda
Questions and Comments
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Workshop Topics Selection Criteria

• Start with topics from first workshop
• Identify top 5 topics, based on three criteria
• Energy analysis collaboration is moving forward
• Data, methodologies and results are being shared
• Identify topics with a committed champion
• Topics where further collaboration would be
  beneficial to multiple organizations
• Secondary focus (i.e. one topic) on a critical
  energy analysis issue not yet being addressed

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Top 5 Recommended Workshop Topics
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Other Potential New Topics

• Recommended 6th Topic for Workshop
• Impact of a carbon-driven energy market
• Other Potential Topics
• Analysis to support decisions on federal and
  state policy scenarios (e.g. RPS, RFS, etc.)
• Integrated energy and environmental scenarios
  (RE, EE penetration under various scenarios)
• Maintain accurate energy and electricity market
  data, make it publicly available
• Policy analysis tools on policy impacts, lessons
  learned and best practices
• Integrate analysis of costs and development of
  new transportation technologies and infrastructure

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Workshop Topics

• Decision on Workshop Topics

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Workshop Invitees
Goal 90 invitees, 60 participants Missing
anyone? Also include private sector? Utilities?
NGOs? Other?
Your Comments
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Workshop Invitees

• Input Requests
• Identify Experts
• (to help with session structures and speakers)
• Identify Invitee Organizations

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Web Forum Update

• Goals
• Assist with energy analysis collaboration on
  data, methodologies and tools
• Identify specific needs for info and analysis
• Identify areas for potential collaboration
• First Web Forum
• Successfully held on January 23, 2007
• Topic GIS Deployment Analysis Tools
• 19 lines connected (multiple people on some
  lines)
• Strong participation by Western Governors Assn,
  California Energy Commission, national
  laboratories and DOE (active GIS users)

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Potential Web Forum Topics

• Benefits estimation metrics (economic,
  environmental, E security and E savings)
• Improve regionality and transmission in electric
  sector modeling (SEDS, NEMS)
• Role of biofuels in transportation modeling
• Modeling of a peak oil/high penetration scenarios
• Portfolio analysis methods (impacts on RD)
• Improvements to behavioral factor modeling
• Others?

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Input Requests- Discussion on Topics - Select
Top 2 (show of hands/voices)Recommendations for
Speakers
Future Web Forums
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Analysis Activity Updates - 1

• Purpose Increase intra-organization coordination
  on energy data and analysis activities
• Basic Idea In 2 minutes or less, volunteers
  discuss (1) progress on ECAI analysis activity OR
  (2) an energy data/analysis activity ripe for
  collaboration
• Process
• 3 minutes for everyone to collect their thoughts
• 2 minutes per person to discuss
• Activity title and one-sentence description
• Most recent activities (teleconference, workshop,
  etc.)
• Next steps

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Sharing and Discussion
Analysis Activity Updates - 2
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ECAI Communication Activities

• Web site released Jan 25, 2007
• www.nrel.gov/analysis/collab_analysis
• Newsletter released Jan 25, 2007
• Sent to 1st workshop participants, planning
  committee, leadership committee, etc.
• Others can sign up to be on mailing list
• Please review to ensure these are useful
  communication tools for ECAI!
• All comments on content and structure welcome to
  Gail Mosey (gail_mosey_at_nrel.gov)

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Next Steps

• Revise ECAI Workshop 2 Approach to Reflect
  Leadership Committee Feedback
• Finalize workshop topics and identify potential
  speakers
• Finalize invitation list and issue invitations
• Draft workshop agenda
• Plan Next Web Forum invite speakers, set date
• Second Leadership Committee Meeting (March)
• Finalize agenda, speakers and invitees for
  Workshop 2
• Address future web forums
• Finalize Workshop Logistics (late spring)
• Confirm attendees
• Prepare guidance for facilitators
• Finalize workshop logistics
• Your Suggestions

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• Supplemental Slides

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Workshop 1 Topics

• Topics from First Workshop
• Enhance Research, Development and Deployment
  Portfolio Analysis Tools
• Improve Deployment Partnerships between Industry
  and Government
• Augment Energy Technologies and Demand Response
  Representation in Energy Models
• Better Representation of Regional Technology
  Characterizations and Transmission Constraints in
  Energy Models
• Improve Impact Evaluation Tools Economic
  Development, Energy Security, Environmental
  Impacts
• Improve Policy Analysis Tools and Integration of
  Data and Tools at State and Federal Levels
• Enhance Biofuel Resource Potential and
  Infrastructure Analysis
• Improve Behavioral Factors in Market/Choice
  Models and Tools