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Title: Interconnect Agreement and Update on Distributed Generation

Speaker 1: Pete Daly

     Title: Vice President and Manager of Utility Systems Planning

     Affiliation: Power System Engineering, Inc.

     Address: 2000 Engel Street, Madison, WI 53713

     Telephone: 608.222.8400 

     E-mail: dalyp@powersystem.org

     Web site: http://www.powersystem.org

     About the Speaker:

Mr. Daly is Vice President and Manager of Utility Systems Planning at Power System Engineering Inc. (PSE), where he has been since 1975 in various progressive positions.  Recent projects include work in the areas of distributed generation, reliability performance, utility mergers, retail access, distribution automation, and wireless communications.

Most recently, Mr. Daly and Mr. Larson (see below) assisted the Minnesota regulated utilities prepare consolidated comments to the Minnesota PUC on the development of distributed generation interconnection standards.  In 2001, Mr. Daly lead a study for the Electric Power Research Institute on distributed resources for grid support and completed efforts on a distributed generation feasibility study for a major US utility.

During his career with PSE, Mr. Daly has held the following positions: Manager of Automation Technology (1994-1999), responsible for managing a research team with special emphasis on utility automation; Principal Engineer and Manager of Computer Services and Forecasting (1988-1992), with responsibility for client liaison, and project direction on a variety of electric utility engineering projects; Manager of Computer Systems (1982-1988), with primary responsibility for marketing and developing PSE’s personal computer products for the electric utility industry.

Speaker 2: Doug Larson

     Title: Vice President

     Affiliation: Power System Engineering, Inc.

     Address: 12301 Central Avenue N.E., Suite 250; Blaine, MN  55434

     Telephone: 763.755.5122    

     E-mail: larsond@powersystem.org

     Web site: http://www.powersystem.org

     About the Speaker:

Mr. Larson is a Vice President with Power System Engineering, Inc.  He holds a BA degree in Economics and a MBA from the University of Minnesota.  For the past 18 years he has worked on rate related matters for gas and electric utilities.  Prior to joining PSE, Doug worked at Dakota Electric Association, an electric distribution cooperative serving the southern suburbs of the Minneapolis - St. Paul area.  Before that, Doug was a Senior Rate Analyst with the Minnesota Department of Public Service.

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