
Energy Efficiency Group
In partnership with AESP: The increasing roles of DERs, connected technology and Big Data are driving rapid change in energy efficiency. As we shape the Utility of the future, this community will help you keep up with the latest developments.
Conference
The 5th Annual DERs & Microgrids Connect Summit

- Sep 12, 2023
The 5th Annual Summit will have a core focus on driving the integration and connectivity of DERs into our national energy ecosystem, from large C&I facilities, DoD installations, and utilities, to City and County levels. By joining us, you will walk away
Nov 8, 2023 - Nov 9, 2023
National Harbor , Maryland
The Sunset Room
$990 if purchased by October 6th | $1190 Standard registration afterwards
Energy Central Member Discount: 10 percent off registration
Energy Central Member Discount Code: ECMEMBER10
Roosevelt Strategic Council's 5th Annual DERs & Microgrids Connect Summit will take place this November 8th and 9th at The Sunset Room in National Harbor, Maryland. Sessions for the 5th iteration will focus on this years theme "Evolving a Distributed and Decarbonized Energy Future.”
The Speaker Faculty and Agenda are designed to bring together stakeholders and experts from diverse sectors to build greater collaboration and information sharing in order to help evolve a more distributed and decarbonized energy future for our Nation.
Over 35 Speakers. Early Confirmed Speakers Include:
The Honorable Gene Rodrigues
Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity
U.S. Department of Energy
The Honorable Brendan Owens, SES
Assistant Secretary, Energy, Installations and Environment
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Sustainment
James Van Nostrand
Chair
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
Alicia Knapp
President and CEO
BHE Renewables, LLC
Ahmed Mousa
Utility of the Future
PSEG
Peter Muhoro
Chief Strategy, Technology & Innovation Officer
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
Vibhu Kaushik
SVP,Global Head of Utilities and Energy Storage
Prologis
Valerie Katz
Deputy Director, Sustainability
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Chris Thurston
Director of Energy and Sustainability
Lineage Logistics
Boris Kort-Packard
Chief Engineer, Global Vehicles
FedEx Express
Raghusimha Sudhakara
Vice President, Distributed Resources Integration
Con Edison
Jason Elliott
Head of Cross Portfolio and Ecosystems
Nokia
Robert Hughes
Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives
U.S. Army
Huiyi Jackson, Ph.D.
Director, Clean Energy Technologies and Policy
Edison Electric Institute
Kirk Phillips
Director, Office of Energy Assurance
U.S. Air Force
Saifur Rahman
2023 IEEE President & CEO | Director, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute
IEEE
2023 Summit Key Focus Areas Include but not limited to :
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Evolving on site generation and storage opportunities for large facilities and installations: Technical and operational best practices for integrating storage, building-integrated photovoltaics (PV),microgrids, EV charging stations and more
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Innovations in long duration energy storage capabilities and market evolution
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Emerging utility operational and business models to support customers’ renewable energy goals including connecting in front of and behind the meter storage, renewables, EVs and microgrids
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Developing microgrid projects at the county, city, industrial and DoD installation level
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Medium and heavy EV fleet charging: what needs to be occurring now to prepare for the near future
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Technologies to support grid connection capacity management of DERs including the supporting telecom networks
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Facility level technologies to support connectivity and management of EV, DERs, and microgrids
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OT Cyber security for facilities and grid cyber resilience
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Financing for microgrids and DERs projects
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Policy landscape
AT OUR SUMMIT YOU WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO:
Gain Education & Insight
For Large Energy Consumers in the Built Environment, you will walk away with knowledge gained towards how to improve your facilities’ energy efficiencies, resiliency and environmental sustainability through integrating DERs and microgrids.
For Utilities, you will gain insight towards evolving technologies, policy and procedure for supporting a distributed energy infrastructure for our Nation
For Industry, you will learn what your current and potential customers and partners need from you!
Build Partnerships
Meet new customers, partners and clients! The Summit is designed to bring together a diverse group of senior stakeholders from across the built environment, the grid, and industry solution providers who do not necessarily engage on a daily basis in order to build new professional networks and expand collaboration.
Ample Networking and Interactive Sessions allow all in attendance to interact in meaningful and beneficial ways throughout the Summit
Influence
Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. Designed as an interactive ‘Town Hall’ forum, all attendees are encouraged to engage in dialogue and discussion with each other and the speakers during each session.
Industry: Sponsor, Exhibit or Attend in order to showcase your capabilities to a variety of potential customers and partners and help influence the path forward towards a connected and distributed energy ecosystem!
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