8 a.m. — Golf Tournament (shotgun start)
Kayak Point (15711 Marine Dr. N.E., Stanwood, WA 98292)
5:30-7 p.m. — Informal reception at Tulalip Resort (Orca 4)
7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. — Conference and pre-conference class registration (Orca Foyer)
7:30-8:30 a.m. — Continental breakfast for pre-conference workshop attendees and Government Relations Committee (Orca Foyer)
8:30-11:30 a.m. Government Relations Committee Meeting (Orca 1)
(No registration required)
Presiding: Marc Farmer, Government Relations Committee Chair, General Manager, Clatskanie PUD (Clatskanie, Ore.)
All NWPPA members are encouraged to participate in the Government Relations Committee meeting. Attendees will be updated on federal legislative and regulatory issues important to NWPPA members. Additionally, members will have the opportunity to review the 2016 proposed resolutions before they are voted on by the general membership during the Annual Business Meeting on May 17, 2016.
Instructor: Skip Collier
Separate registration required. Lunch, along with morning and afternoon breaks, will be provided for pre-conference class attendees.
*Eligible for NRECA Board Leadership Certificate credit.
Tuesday, May 17
7 a.m.-4 p.m. — Registration open (Orca Foyer)
7-8 a.m. — Continental breakfast and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by Professional Computer Systems and The Energy
Authority
8-10 a.m. — Spouse/companion hospitality room (Evergreen Room, 2nd floor)
8-10 a.m. — NWPPA Annual Conference Opening Session (Orca 1)
President’s Welcome
Dick Morris, 2015-2016 NWPPA Board President, Board Vice President, Trinity PUD (Weaverville, Calif.)
Invocation
Harry Hewitt, NWPPA Trustee, Board President, Tillamook PUD (Tillamook, Ore.)
Welcome to Tulalip
Toni Olson, NWPPA Trustee, Board President, Snohomish PUD (Everett, Wash.)
Keynote Address:
The Jedi Battery Pack Arrives (Orca 1)
Ken Munson, CEO, Sunverge (San Francisco, Calif.)
Hear about where battery technology is going from one of the front runners in home battery installations. Sunverge is working with utilities across the country to install batteries in homes with or without solar installed. It’s the battery of the Jedi!
10–10:20 a.m. — Break and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
Sponsored by Northern California Power Agency (NCPA)
10:20–11:30 a.m. — Customers Charging Ahead (Orca 1)
Speakers: Erin Erben, Power Resources & Strategic Planning Manager, Eugene Water and Electric Board (Eugene, Ore.); and Laura Lewis, General Counsel, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (Sacramento, Calif.)
Pilots prove concepts and guide investments. Charging ahead are EWEB and SMUD, who will share the whys and wherefores of the future they are investing in. It’s not just for the big guys.
11:30 a.m.-Noon — Charging Up Your Rate Design (Orca 1)
Speakers: Gary Saleba, President, EES Consulting (Kirkland, Wash.); Anne Falcon, Senior Associate, EES Consulting (Kirkland, Wash.); and Steve Andersen, Manager, Project Evaluation, EES Consulting (Kirkland, Wash.)
On the ground, day to day, what are some of your peers doing as they think about the future and changing rate designs? EES shares what they are seeing and hearing, as they help utilities charge into the future with new rate designs.
12:15-1:50 p.m. — NWPPA Annual Business Meeting and lunch (Orca 2 & 3)
Presiding: Dick Morris, 2015-2016 NWPPA Board President, Board Vice President, Trinity PUD (Weaverville, Calif.)
Co- sponsored by Cooperative Response Center, Inc. and Energy
Northwest
Auditor’s Report on 2015 Association Finances
Brent Mickelsen, CPA, Blodgett Mickelsen & Adamson (Kennewick, Wash.)
Attorney’s Report
Ray Kindley, Attorney, Kindley Law (Portland, Ore.)
Executive Director’s Report
Anita J. Decker, Executive Director, NWPPA (Vancouver, Wash.)
Election of 2016-2017 trustees and announcement of 2016-2017 officers
Terry LaLiberte, Nominating Committee Chair, Board Vice Chair, Kootenai Electric Cooperative (Hayden, Idaho)
Adoption of resolutions related to federal legislative and regulatory issues
Marc Farmer, Government Relations Committee Chair, General Manager, Clatskanie PUD (Clatskanie, Ore.)
Adoption of by-law revisions
Arlen Orchard, Bylaws Committee Chair, CEO & General Manager, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (Sacramento, Calif.)
1:50 p.m. Annual Business Meeting concludes
2-3 p.m. — A Battery Demonstration Project: Where the Big Charges — or Should We Say Changes — Are (Orca 1)
Speakers: Russ Weed, VP Business Development and General Counsel, UniEnergy Technologies (Mukilteo, Wash.); and Chris Heimgartner, Assistant General Manager, Snohomish PUD (Everett, Wash.)
Weed will talk about large-scale energy storage, and Heimgartner will speak about how Snohomish PUD is putting in substation batteries — it wasn’t one and done; it was now there are two. What is the business case and operating value and will they do more? Should you?
3-3:20 p.m. — Break and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
Sponsored by Piper Jaffray
3:20-4:30 p.m. — Recharge Your Community Conversations (Orca 1)
Speakers: John Horvick, Vice President and Political Director, DHM Research (Portland, Ore.); Carmen Proctor, EcoSave (Nelson, B.C.); and Mark Johnson, General Manager, Flathead Electric Cooperative (Kalispell, Mont.)
How do you know what your customers want? Recharge your community conversations and engagement by using new strategies such as cafés and video with your consumers and members. Horvick will address polling, Proctor will talk about community cafés, and Johnson will explain some new media approaches.
4:30 p.m. — Door-prize drawing (must be present to win) (Orca 1)
4:45-6 p.m. — Energy Northwest Review Board Meeting (Evergreen Room, 2nd floor)
(Energy Northwest participants only)
4:45-6 p.m. — NISC Reception (Chinook 1 & 2)
6-7:30 p.m. — NWPPA Welcome Reception (Orca 2 & 3)
Sponsored by EES Consulting
Wednesday, May 18
7-8:15 a.m. — Northwest Requirements Utilities (NRU) breakfast meeting (Chinook 1 & 2)
7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. — Registration open (Orca Foyer)
7:30-8:30 a.m. — Continental breakfast and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange and
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL, Inc.)
8-10 a.m. — Spouse/companion hospitality room (Evergreen Room, 2nd floor)
8:30-9:30 a.m. — Cyber security: What it means for owners of critical infrastructures (Orca 1)
Moderator: Michelle Bertolino, Electric Utility Director, City of Roseville Electric Utility (Roseville, Calif.)
Shane Harris, Journalist and author
9:30-10:30 a.m. — Honey I Shrunk the Grids: The Emergence of Nanogrids (Orca 1)
Peter H. Asmus, Principal Research Analyst, Navigant Consulting (San Francisco, Calif.)
10:30-10:45 a.m. — Break and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by Alaska Power Association (APA), WPUDA, and
Northstar Utilities
10:45 a.m.-Noon — CEO Panel: Charge Them Up Scottie (Orca 1)
Moderator: Scott Corwin, Executive Director, Public Power Council (Portland, Ore.)
Panel:
- Cory Borgeson, CEO/General Manager, Golden Valley Electric Association (Fairbanks, Alaska)
- Bryan Case, CEO/General Manager, Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative (Ashton, Idaho)
- Glenn Steiger, General Manager, City of Alameda (Calif.)
- Annette Creekpaum, General Manager, Mason County PUD No. 3 (Shelton, Wash.)
Corwin will be asking the tough questions on what your peers are doing and planning as they charge ahead.
Noon-2 p.m. — NWPPA Awards Luncheon (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) and National
Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC)
Presenters: Chuck Thurman, Awards Committee Chair, Superintendent, Monmouth Power & Light (Monmouth, OR); and Dick Morris, 2015-2016 NWPPA Board President, Board Vice Chair, Trinity PUD (Weaverville, Calif.)
Please join us for a time to celebrate our 2016 award winners and thank them for their contributions to the public power community.
- Life Member Award
- Paul J. Raver Community Service Award
- John M. George Public Service Award
- William “Bill” McCorie Distinguished Service Award
- Homer T. Bone Award
- Plaques of Appreciation
2-2:15 p.m. — Break and exhibits (Orca 2 & 3)
2:15-3 p.m. — Climate — Water in the West (Orca 1)
Scott Egbert, Byron Woertz, Manager, System Adequacy Planning, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (Salt Lake City, Utah); and Robert Gillies, Director, State Climatologist Utah Climate Center, Utah State University (Logan, Utah)
3-4 p.m. — Keynote Address: Charging Ahead…Face Time, Facebook Time and Intergenerational Innovation (Orca 1)
Jake Greene
4 p.m. — Door-prize drawing (Must be present to win.) (Orca 1)
5-6:30 p.m. — President’s Reception honoring Dick Morris (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by Powerex Corporation, KeyBank, and Shell Trading
North America
6:30-10 p.m. — Annual banquet and entertainment (Orca 2 & 3)
Co-sponsored by CoBank and Platt Electric Supply
Presiding: Alex Love, 2016-2017 NWPPA Board President, General Manager, Nelson Hydro (Nelson, B.C.)
Location & Hotel Information:
Tulalip Resort -
SOLD OUT - please call the overflow hotel for accommodations.
10200 Quil Ceda Blvd.
Tulalip, WA 98271
(866) 716-7162
Room rate: $146 for a single/double
Please book your room as soon as possible, but no later than April 22, 2016, to secure this rate. Mention that you are with the Northwest Public Power Association, group code TB0416, when booking your reservation. Or use the following link to book online: NWPPA at Tulalip.
Overflow Hotel:
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
8606 36th Ave NE
Marysville, WA 98270
(360) 530-1234
Room rate: $129 for a single/double
Please book your room as soon as possible, but no later than April 16, 2016, to secure this rate. Mention that you are with the Northwest Public Power Association when booking your reservation.
A complimentary shuttle to and from the overflow hotel will be available.
Airport Transportation:
We are pleased to offer express shuttle service from SeaTac airport to Tulalip Resort through Bell Air Charter, currently operating 11 times per day with direct service at the cost of $25 per adult one way or $46 round trip. Book online or call (866) 235-5247.
Hotel Reservations Alert
A third party claiming to represent NWPPA has been contacting attendees of upcoming NWPPA meetings and conferences and offering assistance with hotel reservations. No such third party is affiliated with NWPPA or authorized to represent us — please do NOT make hotel reservations through any third party that may contact you by phone or email.
These are the only room blocks secured by NWPPA. No other organizations are holding room blocks for NWPPA for this event, nor has NWPPA authorized any other organizations to contact attendees to assist with hotel reservations for this event.
Event Fees:
Utility Member Early Bird (ends 5/15/2016): $750
Utility Member Standard: $800
Associate Member Early Bird (ends 5/15/2016): $1,125
Associate Member Standard: $1,175
Non-member Early Bird (ends 5/15/2016): $2,200
Non-member Standard: $2,250