Past Presentations

• Decoupling Basics
  Northwest Energy Coalition, 2009 Fall Conference
  Summarized the results of a study Pamela Lesh completed in 2009 about the features and rate effects of decoupling mechanisms currently in effect for U.S. electric and gas utilities.
• Planning for the Future
  Graduate Seminar at Portland State University on Designing the Smart Grid for Sustainable Communities, March, 2009
  Introduced students to different ways of thinking about planning for utility services that places less emphasis on central station generation and traditional delivery systems and more emphasis on local resources and customer preferences.
• Introduction to Systems Thinking
  Training for a certificate in utility management, Willamette University, October, 2009
  Introduced students to basic systems thinking and systems dynamics concepts.
• Fixing Resource Planning Tools to Achieve Higher Levels of Energy Efficiency
  National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Meeting, July , 2009
  Explored the possibility that how we currently think about energy efficiency could be limiting our potential for identifying and achieving energy efficiency.
• An Introduction to Energy, Electricity and Utility Regulation
  NRDC Energy Efficiency Advocacy Training, April, 2009
  Part of an in-house training program for new advocates.
• The Past, Present (and Future) of Electric Utilities
  Various audiences in 2009
  Discussed the history of electric utilities using the interwoven threads of technology, regulation and policy, customers, and business and projected into the future using those same threads.

These links are to Power Point presentations.