Wednesday February 5, 2014
SunSpec Alliance Showcase and Networking Event
4:00 Event starts
- Open to SunSpec members & invited guests from SPG 2014
- SunSpec members may have table top display
- Hors d’Oerves & open wine/beer bar
7:00 Event ends
Thursday February 6, 2014
SunSpec Alliance Annual Member Meeting
Setting Standards & Getting Ready for Plug ‘n Play
8:00Â Â Â Registration
9:00Â Â Â Welcome and Opening remarks
- Plug ‘n Play: technologies to expand the Distributed Energy market – Tom Tansy, SunSpec
- Leadership update – John Nunneley, SunSpec
9:30Â SunSpec Roadmap
- Tom Tansy & John Nunneley, SunSpec
9:45Â Â Â Hawaii Experience: Roundtable discussion of SunSpec Inverter Control field trial
- Tom Herbst, Silver Spring Networks (invited)
- Sebastian Hassel, Fronius (invited)
- Leon Roose, Manager, Systems Integration, Hawaiian Electric Company (invited)
10:15Â Coffee Break
10:30Â California Rule 21 From Various Perspectives
- SunSpec CTO view – John Nunneley, SunSpec
- Regulator’s perspective – Jamie Ormond, Analyst, CPUC (invited)
- Utility’s perspective – Josh Gerber, Smart Grid Manager, SDG&E (invited)
- Moderated round table discussion with SunSpec members
11:30Â SunSpec Inverter Control Initiative
- SunSpec Inverter Control Specification status – Tom Tansy, SunSpec
- Inverter control test tool overview – Bob Fox, Loggerware (invited)
- SunSpec inverter control test tool demo – Jay Johnson, Sandia (invited)
12:30 Â Lunch
1:30 Â Investing in Distributed Energy
- Mike Eckhart, Citibank (invited)
1:50Â Solar Access to Public Capital Initiative
- Mike Mendelsohn, NREL (invited)
2:10 SunSpec’s role in Distributed Energy Finance
- SunSpec Finance Initiative presentation– Tom Tansy, SunSpec
- oSPARC demonstration – Tom Tansy, SunSpec
2:30Â Coffee Break
3:00Â Investor Requirements and Best Practices for Lifecycle Asset Management
- TJ Keating, SunSpec
3:20Â SunSpec outreach program
- Laura Benjamin, SunSpec
3:30 Technical Deep Dive – John Nunneley, SunSpec
- Inverter Control device model development
- Inverter Control application control model development
- Plant model development
- Certification testing
- oSPARC application integration
- Security integration
4:00Â Implementing SunSpec standards: round table to discuss field experiences
- Fronius, SMA, Solectria, Silver Spring, SolarCity, SunEdison, SolarEdge, Schneider, Danfoss, Mersen, Outback, Power-One, Schneider, Powerdash, Campbell (invited)
4:45 Microgrid Opportunities and Innovation
- Byron Washom, UCSD (invited)
5:00Â Closing Remarks