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15th Annual Technical & Operations Conference GENERAL SESSIONS MANAGER TRACK(continued) Building&Leading Successful Teams Mutual Aid (continued) Kit Welchlin, Welchlin Communication Strategies well as other industry associations and federal agencies to Having to work with others is a fact of life.Working well together enhance communication during preparation for and recovery is a necessity.Working together can be a challenging and from disasters.APPA formed the Mutual Aid Working Group complicated task. Most people are unaware that how they (MAWG)to establish a mutual aid network. MAWG developed communicate can affect the dynamics of the team and the team's the Public Power Mutual Aid Playbook to outline the step-by-step effort. Learn how as a new team member to build supportive plan to refer to before and during a disaster. teams. Learn tools for individually preparing for successful team meetings and the functional roles to play. Learn how to A Collaborative Approach to Emergency Preparedness participate effectively on a team and build cohesiveness. Learn Graham Nelson, Veracity Asset Management Group the phases of team development and understand the positive role of conflict. With aging infrastructure, physical vandalism,and extreme weather events,utilities just be prepared for emergencies and critical Error Management;What Safety Leaders KNOW–What equipment failure.Industry collaboration and enhanced mutual aid programs are necessary to promote local,regional and national High-Performing Employees DO! readiness.Veracity Asset Management Group will provide a Lisa Haen, Safety Leader Consulting, LLC presentation on how MMUA members can work collaboratively to Error management is an essential element in creating a safe plan for,prepare for and improve the response to both localized and workplace. Focused on how leadership principles and widespread outages, by adopting a Collaborative Approach to Mutual Aid and Critical Spares Management. organizational core values contribute to desired outcomes, Lisa Haen provides insight to error management from a human MPCA Clean Power Plan—Update performance perspective.Join us as we take a close look at what Bob Jagusch, MMUA effective safety leaders know and what high-performing employees do to prevent incidents in the workplace. The final Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources,Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards from Safety Lessons from the North Pole New, Modified,and Reconstructed Stationary Sources,and the John Huston, Polar Explorer Proposed Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules have been released by the EPA.What does it all mean for Minnesota's utilities and Drawing on stories from his unsupported expedition to the North customers?We will discuss the changes from the proposed rule and Pole,John discusses methods that you can use to create a look at several scenarios that could play out as the Minnesota culture of safety within your team. He describes how he manages Pollution Control Agency develops the state plan. life-threatening situations on the ice and how he constructs safety routines to handle extreme and unpredictable environments. John also describes his expedition mentality, an absolute CREW LEADER/FOREMAN TRACK commitment to safety and work quality,which he and his teams bring to big challenges.This presentation includes stunning Using Energy Storage to Improve Reliability and the imagery and emotional accounts of safety successes, mishaps, Effectiveness of Photo-Voltaic and near misses. Troy Miller, S&C Electric In this presentation,S&C Electric will cover a number of case studies MANAGER TRACK drawn from their more than 10 years'experience in energy storage. The case studies will focus on using storage to improve reliability and increase the effectiveness of PV by both shifting and smoothing the Developing&Maintaining Your Rate Structure PV output.S&C Electric installed the first grid scale energy storage Dave Berg, Dave Berg Consulting installation in the state of Minnesota—a 1MW,6MWH Sodium Sulfur Dave Berg will address why it is important to have an electric rate battery in Luverne. structure that reflects the cost basis and policy goals of the Transformer&Power Cable Specifications utility.The utility service landscape is changing due to new technologies and customer preferences. He will talk about rate Chad Rasmussen, DGR Engineers structure related issues such as 1)why cost of service matters; Review of important considerations when developing specifications 2)different structures and their applications; 3)how rates impact for distribution system transformers and power cable.The distributed generation;4)policy issues impacting rate design and presentation will include discussion on life cycle costs,equipment other pertinent items. sizing,and various product options. APPA Mutual Aid Plan Framework—Update AMI, Going Beyond the Readings Mike Willetts, MMUA Kirk Peterson &Bob Meyer, HD Supply Mike will explain in detail how the Minnesota public power utilities So you've chosen an AMI system. Now what?We'll take an in-depth fit within APPA's National Mutual Aid Program. Utilities' look at what a two-way AMI system can offer to a utility beyond just commitment to helping each other on a national level was most getting meter readings. evident in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy caused widespread damage to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. The American Public Power Association(APPA)works with its (continued on next page) utility,state association,and joint action agency members,as 90