Paul Lau, a speaker at the marcus evans Generation Summit 2013, on having a long-term integrated resource plan to find environmentally friendly solutions to power issues. Interview with: Paul Lau, Assistant General Manager Power Supply and Grid Operations, Sacramento Municipal Utility District

1. Working Towards
a Low-Carbon Future
reaching the best possible carbon amount of risk each one poses to the
neutral outcome. Utilities should first utility resource portfolio estimated. Risk
know exactly what they are pursuing assessment can be carried out, and then
with these policies and then place the resources can be applied to the
focus on how these regulations can be categories to minimize risk.
best aligned within the utility.
Conducting research with other utilities
What challenges and opportunities and industry organizations can help to
do you predict for the future? define how technology is evolving. How
some utilities are integrating technology
Power generation, transmission and into their portfolios and how this is
distribution companies need to be impacting operations, can be compared
creative and work together. They must to other plants and costs defined.
Interview with: Paul Lau, Assistant have a long strategic look into the
General Manager Power Supply and challenges that each utility is facing What should utilities keep in mind
Grid Operations, Sacramento when trying to integrate existing and when combining heat and power?
Municipal Utility District new power generation, in an effort to
achieve a low-carbon future. This kind Utilities should work closely with
of thinking will pave the way forward customers to make sure that this option
“Power generation, transmission and because this will become a requirement is really viable in term of cost and
distribution companies need to be for utilities. reliability. Great care should be taken to
creative and work together,” says Paul make sure that the customer really
Lau, Assistant General Manager Power Utilities should keep an eye on what understands what they are getting into.
Supply and Grid Operations, disruptive technologies will be coming
Sacramento Municipal Utility District. into play, such as smart grid, electric
Knowing the challenges each utility is vehicles, energy storage, solar, and
facing to combine old and new power shal e gas fracking. H ow the se
generation is the way forward to
achieving a low-carbon future, he adds.
technologies will impact the cost of
supplying energy, and how the whole
Utilities should
A speaker at the upcoming marcus
dynamics of gas-fired plants and
contracts will be affected must be taken
keep an eye
evans Generation Summit 2013, in
Dallas, Texas, February 25-26, Lau
into consideration.
on what
disruptive
discusses why utilities should ask The question is how can these new
themse lves how new disruptive disruptive technologies be combined
technologies can be combined with new with new customer programs, such as
customer programs. demand response? Whether these play
a more combined part in the generation
technologies
How can the industry better deal
with environmental challenges?
mix can then be defined and compared
with the conventional resource mix.
will be coming
Each utility should have a robust long-
Opportunities to lower costs and
improve reliability and services are the into play and
how best to
term integrated resource plan. The outcome.
different available renewables and
transmission access within each region How can generation assets be
must be examined in order to develop
the best risk mitigation strategies to
optimized in an era of fluctuating
energy costs?
integrate
deal with those challenges.
An integrated resource plan would
renewable into
Prescriptive environment regulations
can take away flexibilities from actually
ensure that the different generation
mixes are looked at in detail and the their systems

2. About the Generation Summit 2013
The Energy Network - marcus
evans Summits group delivers This unique forum will take place at the Hotel Intercontinental, Dallas, Texas,
peer-to-peer information on February 25-26, 2013. Offering much more than any conference, exhibition or trade
strategic matters, professional show, this exclusive meeting will bring together esteemed industry thought leaders
trends and breakthrough and solution providers to a highly focused and interactive networking event. The
innovations. Summit includes presentations on investing in the generation of the future,
emerging environmental regulation and exploring clean coal power initiatives.
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Please note that the Summit is a
closed business event and the
number of participants strictly Contact
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