puerto rico microgrid symposium
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 @ La Concha Resort, San Juan, PR
AGENDA
8:00am - 8:45am: Registration & Networking Breakfast Sponsored by Eaton
8:45AM - 9:00am: Welcome Remarks
Jonathan Stewart, Managing Director, Grid Sector, NEMA
9:00am - 10:00am: Keynote: Calculating Costs and Benefits from a Customer Perspective
Greta Foster, Microgrid/DER Product Line Manager, Eaton
Douglas Telepman, Principal Business Development Manager – Distributed Energy Solutions – Solar & Storage, Enel North America
10:00am - 10:30am: Community Microgrids and Resiliency Applications
Sercan Teleke, Principal Engineer, PSED, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm: Panel: Permitting, Working with LUMA
Moderator: Ignacio Diaz, Director of Sales & Marketing, Glenn International Inc.
Lillian Mateo-Santos, Commissioner, PREB
Ferdinand Ramos, Associate Commissioner, PREB
Juan Rodriguez, Vice President, Capital Programs, LUMA
Maria Hilda Rivera, Director, Gird Modernization, LUMA
Angel Zayas, Founder, AZ Engineering
12:00pm - 1:00pm: lunch - sponsored by itron
1:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch Keynote: Evolution to the Grid Edge – Where Customers Meet the Grid
Natalie Hammer, Business Growth Manager, Grid Management, Itron
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Panel: Update on Vieques and Culebra Microgrids
Agustin Carbo-Lugo, Director, Puerto Rico Grid Modernization and Recovery Team, U.S. Department of Energy
Abimarie Otaño Cruz, Manager, Energy Transition in Puerto Rico, Environmental Defense Fund
Babak Enayati, Senior Director of Grid Modernization, Renewable Integration, and Asset Management, LUMA
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Commissioning of a Campus Microgrid
Kate Cummings, Manager, Power Grid Automation, G&W Electric
3:00pm - 3:30pm: Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm: Powering Resilience: Microgrid Development in Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico
Yamil Pagan, Co Founder and Vice President, Alten Energy
4:00pm - 4:30pm: federal disaster recovery funds for grid modernization
Manuel Laboy, Executive Director, COR3 | Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency
4:30pm - 5:00PM: Closing DISCUSSION + NEXT STEPS
Jonathan Stewart, Managing Director, Grid Sector, NEMA
H.G. Chissell, Founder & CEO, Advanced Energy Group
