Transcript Slides appended to Rick Morgan’s MADRI remarks

MADRI Facilitation and
Comparison with NEDRI
Midwest Demand Response Initiative
February 9, 2007
Richard Sedano
The Regulatory Assistance Project
50 State Street, Suite 3
Montpelier, Vermont USA 05602
Tel: 802.223.8199
Fax: 802.223.8172
177 Water St.
Gardiner, Maine USA 04345
Tel: 207.582.1135
Fax: 207.582.1176
Website:
http://www.raponline.org
Perspective of Facilitator
 Important to enable everyone to engage
 Key concerns must get into the discussion
Sometimes, people are too polite
 Sometimes, “outsiders” need encouragement
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 Meetings need to be interesting
 Other factors important to MADRI
 Focus – choose most important issues
 Forum for Third Parties and utilities
 Starting place for PUC initiatives – they are key
 Innovation and Product Oriented
MADRI and NEDRI
New England Demand Response Initiative
2002-2003 (MADRI started in mid-2004)
Focused most on RTO and improving demand
response programs, states resisted pricing reforms
(MADRI focus is on states)
Operated by consensus to create a single set of
recommendations (MADRI focus is options)
 Handout
of final recommendations, report available at
http://www.raponline.org/Pubs/General/FinalNEDRIRE
PORTJuly2003%2Epdf
 Process ran out of steam (MADRI still vital)
MADRI and NEDRI
More NEDRI-MADRI comparisons
NEDRI drew on very close, sometimes
contentious NEPOOL relationships (MADRI,
less so, and has much more third party (CSP)
participation)
NEDRI had low commissioner-level attention
(MADRI has good commissioner attention
through a steering committee)
Consistencies
 Both processes noted by FERC
 Both produce implemented results
 Both used sub-groups to bore in on key issues
 MADRI’s got to more fundamental issues
 Participating states have common concerns
 Market power, wholesale market function
 Both have DEP/Air Director participation
 Both address energy efficiency, though not
comfortably
 Both assisted by experts, incl. RAP, supported by
federal government (NEDRI had more financial
support from RTOs)