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HRBA and Privacy by Design

About the Health Record Banking Alliance
The Health Record Banking Alliance (HRBA) is a non-profit membership organization with the goal of establishing accurate, secure, and comprehensive health records that can be accessed and authenticated by both patients and their health care providers under the control of the individual patient. We advocate for community repositories of electronic health records (health record banks) as an effective and sustainable health information infrastructure solution, provide assistance to communities building health record banks, and promote necessary legislation & regulation consistent with community health record banks (see http://www.healthbanking.org). HRBA members include state and community health information exchange organizations, health information providers, physicians, and vendors interested in health information technology, exchange, and services.

Reguly’s previous position was director of SDG&E’s Smart Meter program where he was responsible for the development of SDG&E’s Smart Meter business case, regulatory approval, and program implementation. SDG&E is one of the first electric and gas utilities in the United States to design, run and build a smart meter infrastructure for 1.4 million electric meters and 850,000 gas modules. Reguly delivered over $20 million per year in cost savings realization and began transforming the utility/customer relationship.

Reguly’s prior positions at SDG&E include director of customer services and director of construction and operations where he oversaw field operations in SDG&E’s southern region and construction projects in the SDG&E’s metro regions respectively.

Reguly is an actively involved with the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, Utilimetrics, UCLA Smart Grid Leadership Council, UtilityAMI, OpenAMI, Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC) and the Zigbee Alliance.

Reguly is a registered California Mechanical Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State, Long Beach and a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from San Diego State University.

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.
Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2008 revenues of nearly $11 billion. The Sempra Energy companies’ 13,600 employees serve about 29 million consumers worldwide.

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and 840,000 gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.

As senior vice president of power supply, Avery oversees the company’s generation, system planning, project development and electric procurement business unit operations. In addition, Avery is responsible for the company’s Smart Grid technologies, policies and initiatives.

Prior to joining SDG&E, Avery was a consultant with R.J. Rudden Associates, one of the nation’s leading management and economic consulting firms specializing in energy and utility matters. Avery has extensive experience in utility operations and management. He was the chief executive officer of the electric and gas operations at Citizens Utilities Company, a multi-service organization that provided electric, gas, telecom, water and wastewater services in 21 states across the nation. He is the Chairman of the California Transmission Planning Group, a Director of the California Power Exchange and has served as a Director of Vermont Electric Power Company, RJ Rudden Associates and he held positions at American Electric Power.

Avery is an expert in energy markets, electric production, transmission and distribution operations. He also is a senior member of the Association of Energy Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Mensa.

Avery is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Dartmouth College and he holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Manhattan College.

SDG&E believes privacy is a fundamental right of every customer. It is committed to doing its part to advocate for privacy on behalf of its customers and its community. SDG&E acts as a conscientious steward of customer information and their customers clearly expect that SDG&E is doing everything in its power to reasonably protect their privacy. SDG&E recognizes that customer information is required in order to provide safe, reliable service to the communities it serves and that this service requires SDG&E to responsibly collect, store, share and properly dispose of customer data when it is no longer needed. San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is taking a leadership position to advance the Smart Grid and acknowledges the importance of proactively building privacy into its design, as it plans for the various phases of implementation. An integral part of SDG&E’s SGDP is its approach to privacy and security.

Privacy by Design (PbD) is a set of seven guiding principles for enabling privacy in fast-growing and technologically advanced environments. By emphasizing these timely principles in development of the smart grid, SDG&E has taken a leadership role in customer privacy.

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides energy service to 3.5 million people through 1.4 million electric meters and 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. Our service area spans 4,100 square miles. We employ about 5,000 people who work every day to deliver the energy our customers need.

Privacy is a fundamental right of every one of our customers and a priority of San Diego Gas & Electric.

SDG&E and Privacy by Design

Krevat leads enterprise-wide smart grid strategy, policy, and project alignment for SDG&E. In March 2012, he was named one of the top 100 movers and shakers who are influencing the smart grid market by GreenTech Media for the second time. In 2011, Lee Krevat and Commissioner Ann Cavoukian were both recognized as part of the Top 11 Movers and Shakers of the electric industry by Intelligent Utility Magazine. Krevat was also named one of the Top 15 Smart Grid leaders in the electric industry by FierceSmartGrid.

Krevat currently serves on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance, a smart grid advocacy coalition with the mission to transform the electric grid to achieve a sustainable energy future through the advocacy of well-reasoned smart grid policies at the federal, state, and local levels.

SDG&E has built a strong foundation in Smart Grid technologies, including self-healing grid technology, automated sub-station condition-based maintenance, advanced outage and distribution management systems, and microgrid projects funded by DOE and CEC. SDG&E filed a 10 year Smart Grid Deployment Plan on June 6, 2011 which described a vision for the future as well as a roadmap composed of 82 projects. SDG&E was ranked number one in the nation three years running in the Smart Grid rankings published by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine.

Krevat’s prior positions at SDG&E include director of program delivery, where he oversaw IT for advanced technology projects and the development of new systems to improve operating efficiency and customer experience. Krevat was also director of IT strategy and business partnership where he worked to align strategic direction between IT and the utility business units, as well as director of infrastructure engineering & operations.

Before joining Sempra, Krevat led the Software Process Engineering, Technology Transfer and Software Process Improvement Teams at Tandem Computers.

Krevat graduated with university honors and holds a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics/computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.

Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2008 revenues of nearly $11 billion. The Sempra Energy companies’ 13,600 employees serve about 29 million consumers worldwide.