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How to Have Difficult Conversations (Hot Topic Conversation)

  • Explores how to get what you want by saying what you mean, including managing strong emotions and collaborating to find a win-win outcome. (February 2026)
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Enhancing your Presentation Skills

  • This webinar will dive into how to improve and enhance presentation skills - including speaking style, presentation materials, and audience rapport. (January 2026)
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EV's Behaving Badly

  • Learn how Apex Analytics conducted research for the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) to characterize the electric vehicle (EV) market. (April 2025)
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Connected Devices: Building a DER Portfolio through Business Case Modeling

  • PSE and West Monroe Partners discuss the model they’ve developed, a DER use-case stacking approach, for developing a portfolio of DER concepts, and lessons learned along the way. (April 2021)
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How It Started vs. How It's Going: California's Journey With Income-Graduated Fixed Charges

  • Learn more about California's journey with income-graduated fixed charges, presented by Severin Borenstein, Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. (October 2023)
Demand ResponsePricingHOT TOPICS2023

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Standardizing V2G: A Critical Factor in Widespread Adoption

  • This conversation reviews the current state of standardization of V2G technologies and highlights the technical issues that will need to be resolved to enable mass adoption of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) in the U.S. (October 2023)
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Critical Peak Pricing: Xcel Energy’s CPP Journey with C&I Customers

  • Learn more from Xcel Energy about how they designed these rates, what the customer response has been, and how they’ve navigated regulatory headwinds along the way. (March 2023)
PricingHOT TOPICSC&I2023

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Exploring the Role of Commercial and Industrial Load Flexibility in Demand Response

  • This new interest group has been created to address head-on the challenges and opportunities for load flexibility in the C&I space. (September 2022)
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How Utilities Are Leveraging In-Home Technologies to Adaptively Respond to Dynamic Pricing Signals

  • Four different utilities are leveraging an array of end uses to respond to dynamic pricing signals. (September 2022)
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Voices of Experience: Residential Demand Charges at Electric Cooperatives

  • Mid-Carolina Electric in South Carolina, Butler Electric in Kansas and Platte-Clay Electric in Missouri were among the first to implement residential demand charges and now have several years of lessons learned and best practices to share. (February 2022)
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