Webinar Ask the Experts: Renovating Rooftop Rate Design October 1, 2020 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. ET Register for Webinar Members Free Non-members $199 Register for Webinar Net Energy Metering Successor Tariff proceedings need not be contentious. Effective collaboration between stakeholders can create opportunities for innovative solutions. Join us to learn how Duke Energy and renewable energy stakeholders collaborated to propose a modernization to the net metering transaction that reinforces the utility’s demand response capability. At the end of this event, attendees will be able to: Describe the factors that enabled the settlement Identify and evaluate what market conditions make this type of rate design possible. Register for Webinar Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of joining the SEPA community. View Membership Info Share Share on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedIn About the Speakers Thad Culley Sr. Regional Director and Regulatory Counsel, Vote Solar Thad Culley is the Senior Regional Director and Regulatory Counsel for the Southeast for the non-profit solar advocacy organization Vote Solar. Before joining Vote Solar, Thad worked with the law firm Keyes & Fox, LLP in Oakland, California, where he worked on distributed generation issues including interconnection, rate design, and net metering before utilities commissions in over 15 states. Thad is currently a member of the California, South Carolina, and North Carolina state bars and is a board certified Utilities Law specialist in North Carolina. Thad is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Janet Gail Besser Former Vice President, Regulatory and Business Innovation, SEPA As Vice President of Regulatory and Business Innovation, Janet Gail Besser leads SEPA’s Regulatory and Business Innovation related work. She brings to this role broad energy industry experience as a regulator, clean energy business association leader, utility executive, developer, consultant, and consumer advocate. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC), Vice President, Regulatory Strategy and Policy at National Grid, Chair and Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, where she led electric industry restructuring, and an executive and expert consultant at Analysis Group and Lexecon. She also held senior staff roles at the Massachusetts Energy Office and New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, served as policy director for a DC-based national independent power association, and began her career as a small hydro developer and low-income consumer advocate. Janet is a nationally recognized expert on a wide range of energy policy issues with deep relationships across the industry. She earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College.