March 7, 2012 - SDG&E Programming Day
March 8-9, 2012 - Open Industry Days
The Westin San Diego
San Diego, California

Conference Leadership 

GCF West provides an opportunity to examine SDG&E's Smart Grid technologies and strategies along with industry-leading West Coast stakeholders in energy solutions.

GCF West 2012 Chairperson

Michael Niggli  Michael R. Niggli
President and Chief Operating Officer
SDG&E 


Host Leadership

SDG&E management has selected the following group of individuals to represent all lines of businesses impacted by smart grid implementation. The leadership team, in working with the organizing committee, will develop a world-class program to be presented March 2012 in San Diego.

  • James P. Avery, Senior Vice President, Power Supply, SDG&E
  • J. Chris Baker, Senior Vice President, Support Services & Chief Information Officer, SDG&E
  • Michelle M. Mueller, Vice President, External Affairs, SDG&E
  • Caroline A. Winn, Vice President, Customer Services, SDG&E

 

Host Utility

 

SDG&ESDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.5 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. The utility's area spans 4,100 square miles. SDG&E is committed to creating ways to help their customers save energy and money every day. SDG&E is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego.

SDG&E's Smart Grid Deployment Plan details how they will allocate energy resources more efficiently and deploy new technology to give their customers a much greater level of control over their energy usage. The Plan will help achieve California's aggressive energy and environmental policy goals, including reducing greenhouse-gas emmissions, using more renewable energy, and improving energy efficiency and demand response.

Affiliated Universities

UC San Diego       University of San Diego      San Diego State University 

GCF West Host Utility

SDG&E 

University Partners

University of California San Diego

                                                    

University of San Diego

  

San Diego State University

 

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