ESC GFEN NA Consortium Minutes 060419

ESC GFEN/NA Consortium Minutes from June 4, 2019 Meeting was called to order at 10:05 am Eastern Time Attendance: Ann Lovcik CenterPoint Andrew Hascher DTE Brad Radel DTE Greg Tomsick ESC David Zabrowski Frontier Energy Frank Johnson GTI Tom Simpson NW Natural Carl Peterson Piedmont Gina Christian SoCalGas Melisa Marks SoCalGas James Robinson Spire Update from Greg Tomsick, Relationship Manager: Greg has been extremely busy since becoming our Relationship Manager in mid-February. Greg provided an update on his activities to date. Rather than rewrite what was said, Greg’s updates will be posted on the ESC site under consortium business. Some of the key items are his trip to EEI, NRA, his meeting with McDonald’s and his meeting with Coffee & Bagels. In addition, Melisa Marks, SoCalGas, also presented on NRA and that will be shared with the group as well. All can be found by following this link: https://www.energysolutionscenter.org/consortia/gas_foodservice_equipment_consortium_business.aspx?pg=1 You can read about SoCal’s successful partnership to benefit the Los Angeles Unified School District which resulted in the purchase of over 90 AccuTemp high-efficiency steamers that will be installed throughout the district. To read more follow this link: https://sempra.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=19080&item=137651 Customer Care Workshop: The 2019 Customer Care Workshop will be held from August 13 – 15 in Minneapolis, MN, at the CenterPoint Energy demo kitchen. Registration is now open on the ESC site, and can be found here: https://www.energysolutionscenter.org/events/calendar_of_events.aspx You will also find our agenda and info on the hotel where we have our room block. Space is limited at this event so you will need to register early. Open Discussion: We briefly touched on several topics that will be the basis for future calls as more discussion is needed. Topics that we will be discussing include: Updating/finalizing our budget with GFEN/NA combined Future involvement at NRA: booth?, reception?, info session? The need to develop and electrification message, it needs to be simple The need to educate on site vs source These are very important and timely topics that need to be vetted out as a group. Please watch email for information on our next meetings when we will begin to discuss these topics. The meeting was adjourned at 11:50 am Eastern time.