 Okay, for this session, we are going to have, hopefully, two speakers with regard to talking about issues surrounding smart grid. And the first person up is Dan DeLore, and he is the president of the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition. Dan? Okay, people who know me say that I can't even say hello in six minutes. So I'm going to try and do something a little bit different so that we have some time for Q and A. First of all, you can go to the website, DRSG Coalition, you can see the membership, it's very diverse, folks like Google, GE, Honeywell, also a lot of startups that you've probably never heard of. Okay, so, okay, energy efficiency, we all know what that is. Best example is a more efficient light bulb. Here's where my production budget ran low, okay? We also have the biggie, and that's other types of energy efficiency, the energy efficiency of a power plant, the energy efficiency of transmission. If you ever took a physics class, you know it's harder to push things across a wire when the weather is really hot out. All sorts of different efficiencies in the electricity system. The new kid on the block is smart grid. Now, there's a lot of reasons I could give as to why the grid is not smart now, but I'm going to do this one, okay, 10 to 20% of the total electricity costs in the U.S. are attributable to only 100 hours on the system during the year. I just, again, one example, and this is because I would say almost all of you, if not all of you out there, pay the same price per kilowatt hour on the hottest summer afternoon as you do on a cool autumn evening, okay? So obviously, that leads to extra costs on the system, okay? So now you have another new kid come along called demand response, okay, and demand response is different than energy efficiency, but it's kind of like a twin or a sibling, whereas energy efficiency is kind of your baseline efficiency and your static efficiency. It's not dispatchable, and it's also sometimes hard to measure. Now along come smart meters and other smart grid technologies, and you can suddenly in that control room on a hot summer afternoon instead of turning on another power plant, you can reach out to a virtual power plant that may consist of thousands of customers and get the same effect on the system, okay? So how do you do that? One way is through price signals, okay? So you just have a higher price during that hot summer afternoon. Also through information, and this is the real exciting part that ties it to energy efficiency, and that is because just by giving people information, the pilots and deployments so far show that customers, even if they're not on time-based pricing, will become five to 15% more energy efficient overall, okay? So those of you who are staff in the office, remember ENO, because there was a bill last Congress, hopefully there'll be one this Congress that deals with trying to get that five to 15% by providing all customers with information. And my last cue card here is O, and that's because really what we're after is optimization. So you want to do DR, you want to do energy efficiency, and you want to make sure that all the information, all the controls, all the sensors, all the monitors, all of that is available, and what my final plea to you all is don't get stuck in an energy efficiency silo, and don't talk to the smart grid and demand response guys over here. We're all in this together. We got to put this together to get the biggest bang for our buck. Is Lori here? Okay. I've got extra cards if you want me to. Here you go. I'm always prepared, and that's part of the whole thing. So if Lori's not here, then you will take a couple questions. Sure. How do electric use a smart grid in terms of customers being able to provide that power, that battery resource? Yeah, electric vehicles, some people call it demand response on wheels. I mean you have the ability to, and actually I'm going to use my card, okay, which stands for renewable energy. Over 80% of the wind resource in the U.S. is only available at night. So use that wind to inject electricity into that car while it's sitting in your garage, and then take it out from there during the peak period the next day. I mean just to be simplistic about it. So it's a big game changer, electric vehicles. Yes? How can smart grids be protected against cyberterrorism? Well, by a number of ways, I mean I can get into technical architecture, which I can only go so far on, but there are layers of security that can be built starting all the way with a smart meter on your home that protect it, or are designed to protect it to be able to not get into the control room or into a power plant or any of that. So it's a big issue it's being dealt with in the Congress right now, but I can't go too far in terms of the technical aspects of that. Any other questions? Yeah, sure. Is it the National Action Plan supposed to be kind of pulling all of this together? Well, thank you. It's happened to have a few cards for that. In 2007, Congress passed the Energy ESA, and included in that was direction to DOE and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to develop a National Action Plan on-demand response to do the things in terms of education of consumers, to develop new technical resources to allow us all to get to the big O. And with apologies to Sesame Street, I'll take my cards away.