EE Noon: Demand Response and Energy Storage: Steps to Achieving a Reliable Energy Future

EE Noon is a regular series of brown-bag lunch seminars in which industry leaders share their expertise about energy efficiency. The seminars feature short presentations followed by a question and answer session.

Steps to Achieving a Reliable Energy Future

Demand Response is becoming integral to every effective energy cost savings and reliability strategy.  State Utility Commissions and Independent System Operators are designing and implementing demand response programs in which commercial, industrial, and residential energy consumers can participate.

Solar and Wind are forms of energy. Those who believe coal, oil and natural gas are energy are only partially correct; if you touch coal it is not hot, and oil in the barrel is not moving. 

Fossils fuels are actually forms of stored energy. If our society is going to successfully reduce its dependence on fossil fuels with renewable energy on a large scale, we cannot ignore the “storage” aspect of what we are replacing. Thermal Energy Storage used for Off-Peak Cooling of buildings, has a long history around the world with over 6,000 commercial installations in 35 countries.

Speakers

David Ellis

David Ellis offers over 17 years experience in a number of management, energy, and engineering roles including Demand Response (DR), Renewable Portfolio Standards, and related software & hardware technology development.

In his current role as SVP Business Development with Comverge, a leading provider of clean energy solutions that improve grid reliability, he is responsible for the development of Commercial & Industrial DR and Renewable energy products and services as well as regulatory initiatives which affect them.

Mark M. MacCracken

Mark M. MacCracken is the CEO of CALMAC Manufacturing Corporation, which is one of the largest manufacturer of Thermal Energy Storage equipment in the world, with over 3,300 installations in 35 countries. In his over 30 years with the firm, he has been involved in all aspects of the company including, R&D contracts, patents, manufacturing, marketing and finance. He was the Principal Investigator on research projects with Oak Ridge National Labs, NASA and National Renewable Energy Research Lab. He has his BS in Mechanical Engineering, has three U.S. Patents and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey and a LEED Accredited Professional.