Albert Chiu
Albert Chiu
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Albert Chiu is a Lead Product Manager in the Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM) Department at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In his 12 years in IDSM, he has developed and implemented residential, 3rd party, low income, commercial and local government energy efficiency and demand response programs for utility customers. He is the lead of the DR Technology and Solutions Team in the Demand Response Emerging Market Department at PG&E and his team is also responsible for all Auto DR/PLS technologies development and implementation. At PG&E, he focuses on how to utilize the new technologies to integrated DR with CA electric Wholesale Market and addressing Intermittent Renewable Resource challenges. Albert chairs the OpenADR Task Force within the Utility Communication Architect Internal User Group (UCAIug) and serves at the OpenADR Alliance board of directors. He also participates in the NIST National Smart Grid activities such as Priority Action Plan 3, 4 and 9. He is in multiple Technical Advisor Groups with CA universities and national labs.
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Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings as a Utility Resource
Nowadays, aligning electricity supply with demand, maintaining grid reliability while achieving ambitious decarbonization goals is increasingly challenging for utilities for multiple reasons – increased penetration of renewables, phasing out of fossil fuel-based generations, and electrification goals to name a few. Research studies have shown tremendous potential in grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) as an emerging resource to support the utilities. This panel brings together leading voices from utilities and national laboratories on how the new utility-customer relationship is evolving and how demand flexibility in buildings holds the key to utility system reliability and adequacy in the age of decarbonization.