Full Program

Welcome and Introduction
Michael Eckhart, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
John Geesman, Co-Chairman, ACORE

Plenary Keynote Speaches

Chairperson: Vivienne Cox, Executive Vice President and CEO of Alternative Energy, BP
Vic Abate, Vice President of Renewables, GE
Jan-Eric Sundgren, Senior Vice President, Environment and Public Affairs, Volvo
Joe Stanislaw, Chairman, the J.A. Stanislaw Group, Independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte & Touche, and founder, Cambridge Energy Research Group,

Introductions from the Renewable Energy Trade Associations

Randy Swisher, Executive Director, American Wind Energy Association
Bill Holmberg, Chairman, Biomass Coordinating Committee
Li Junfeng, Executive Director, Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association
Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition
Arthouros Zervos, President, European Renewable Energy Council
Karl Gawell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association
Steve Sawyer, Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council
Jeff Serfass, President, National Hydropower Association
Linda Church Ciocci, Executive Director, National Hydropower Association
Phil Lampert, National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
Bob Dineen, President & CEO, Renewable Fuels Association
Rhone Resch, President, Solar Energy Industries Association

Announcement of the Prize Capital Biofuels Prize
Lee Stein, Chairman & Founder, Prize Capital LLC

Plenary Keynote Speech
Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Summary
Dan Reicher, Director, Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org, and Co-Chairman of the Board, ACORE
Michael Eckhart, President, ACORE

Solar

Solar PV: Finance
Session A1: March 5, 8:30 - 10:00am

A panel discussion covering the changing landscape of PV Finance. How PV startups find seed money, how established companies expand and , whether industry consolidation is on the horizon. Will PPA's continue to help solar expand or will falling prices change the models?

Chairperson: Chad Sachs, Vice President, Project Development Finance, MMA Renewable Ventures, LLC
Chairperson: Michael Ware, Managing Director, Good Energies
Speaker: Craig O'Connor, Director, Environmental Exports, Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
Speaker: Jose Luis Cendagorta, Independent Investor
Speaker: Mac Irvin, SunPower
Speaker: Felix Taubman, BP

Solar PV: Global Markets & Policy Drivers A
Session A2: March 5, 10:30 - 12:00pm

Is Germany' s day in the sun ending? Spain on the rise? Which is the next country to emerge from the shadows? And how best to get there: FITs and starts, tax incentives, or other policies?  A panel discussion putting the whole world of PV in perspective.

Chairperson: Paula Mints, Principal Analyst, PV Services Program, Navigant Consulting
Chairperson: Daniela Schreiber, Head, Research Operations, EuPD Research
Speaker: Arturo Herrero, VP Sales & Marketing, Trina Solar
Speaker: Thomas Sauer, CEO, IBC Solar
Speaker: Bill Rever, Strategic Marketing Manager, BP
Speaker: Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, Managing Partner, BSW

Solar PV: Global Markets & Policy Drivers B
Session A6: March 6, 1:30-3:00 pm

Chairperson: Travis Bradford, Prometheus
Speaker: Julie Blunden, Sunpower
Speaker: Dr. Anna De Lillo, ENEA
Speaker: Bob Freling, President, SELF
Speaker: Todd Foley, Director of Business Development and External Affairs, BP
Speaker: Alex Marker, Research Fellow, SCHOTT North America, Inc.
 

Solar PV: US Markets & State Policy Drivers
Session A3: March 5, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

A comprehensive look at the US PV market(s).  Discussions will highlight California , New Jersey , and the other state programs and how they've built their markets or failed to, with mixtures of renewable portfolio standards and tax incentives both state and federal. 

Chairperson: Rhone Resch, President, Solar Energy Industries Association
Speaker: Adam Browning, Executive Director, Vote Solar
Speaker: Julia Hamm, Executive Director, SEPA
Speaker: Steve Chadima, Executive Vice President, External Affairs, Energy Innovations
Speaker: Larry Sherwood, President, Sherwood Associates
Speaker: John Stanton, Vice President, Government Relations, Solar Energy Industries Association

Solar PV: Status of Technology
Session A4: March 5, 4:30 - 6:00pm

Where do PV technologies stand today? Thin film, building Integrated PV, concentrating PV, organic PV, and even silicon-based.  What is the state of the art and what is right around the corner?

Chairperson: Craig Cornelius, Hudson Clean Energy Partners
Speaker: Nancy Floyd, Founder, Nth Power
Speaker: Eric Daniels, Vice President, Technology, BP
Speaker: Sven Hansen, CIO, Good Energies
Speaker: Larry Kazmerski, Director, National Center for Photovoltaics
Speaker: Nicola Romeo, Professor, University of Parma, Italy


 
Solar Thermal Electric
Session A5: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

This session will cover the rapidly emerging field of utility-scale solar.  Status of parabolic trough, dish-stirling, and solar power tower.

Chairperson: Fred Morse, Senior Advisor, Abengoa Solar
Speaker: Rainer Aringhoff, President, Solar Millenium
Speaker: Avi Brenmiller, Solel
Speaker: Arnold Leitner, SkyFuel
Speaker: John Myles, Solargenix/Acciona
Speaker: John O'Donnell, Executive Vice President, Ausra, Inc.
Speaker: Charlie Ricker, BrightSource Energy

Wind

Wind: Status of Technology
Session B1: March 5, 8:30-10:00am

A short history and overview of the rapid development of wind turbine technology in the 'traditional' as well as newly emerging markets; present challenges facing the industry, and a look ahead and offshore.

Chairperson: Arthouros Zervos, President, European Renewable Energy Council
Speaker: Andrew Garrad, CEO, Garrad Hassan
Speaker: Henning Kruse, Manager, Siemens Wind Power A/S
Speaker: Junfeng Li, Secretary General, Chinese Renewable Energy Industry Association
Speaker: Jos Beurskens, Energy Center Netherlands
 
Wind: Finance
Session B2: March 5, 10:30-12:00pm

The session will explore the operating economics of wind turbines and what can be done to mitigate risks and reduce long-term costs related to wind plant operation.  It will demonstrate the issues project developers and financiers are able to solve through thoughtful presentations and amicable negotiations.

Chairperson: Ed Feo, Partner, Milbank Tweed
Speaker: John Eber, JPMorgan Capital Corporation
Speaker: Tom Emmons, HSH Nordbank
Speaker: Matt Ferguson, Lead/Principal, Reznick Group
Speaker: Adrian Katzew, Santander
Speaker: Kevin Walsh, Managing Director, General Electric

Wind: Global Market Drivers & Outlook
Session B3: March 5, 2:00-4:00pm

The wind industry has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade, approaching an average of 30% per year.  What has driving this growth and what are the prospects for the near and mid-term future.

Chairperson: Steve Sawyer, Executive Director, Global Wind Energy Council
Speaker: Carlos Gasco Travesedo, Iberdrola
Speaker: Christian Kjaer, Chief Executive Officer, EWEA
Speaker: Joshua Magee, Research Director, Emerging Energy Research
Speaker: Edward Lowe, GM of Market Development and Policy, Renewables, GE Energy

 
Wind: US Market Drivers & Outlook
Session B4: March 5, 4:30-6:00pm

National and state-by-state markets, leading to the boom year in 2007.  Assessment of the PTC issue, extension prospects, and longer-term policy drivers.

Chairperson: Randy Swisher, Executive Director, American Wind Energy Association
Speaker: Paul Bonavia, President, Utilities Group, Xcel
Spealer:  Martins da Costa, Chairman and CEO, Horizon Wind Energy
Speaker: Robert Lukefahr, President, BP Alternative Energy
Speaker: Martin Mujica, Iberdrola Renewable Energy
Speaker: Mike O'Sullivan, FPR Energy

Geothermal


Geothermal: Status of Technology: New Developments and Outlook for Geothermal Research
Session C2: March 5, 10:30-12pm

A review of current and advanced geothermal drilling, processing and power technologies.

Chairperson: Paul Thomsen, Public Policy Manager, Ormat Nevada
Speaker: Frank Monastero, US Navy Geothermal Program, US Navy
Speaker: Egill Juliusson, Glitnir Bank,  Iceland 
Speaker: Susan Petty, Alta Rock Energy, Inc.   
Speaker: Ann Robertson-Tait, GeothermEx
Speaker: Jefferson Tester, H.P. Meissner Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaker: Pierre Ungemach, GPC Instrumentation Process, Paris

Geothermal: Finance
Session C3: March 5, 2:00-4:00pm

The session will explore the operating economics of geothermal technologies. It will demonstrate the issues project developers and financiers are able to solve through thoughtful presentations and skillful

Geothermal: Global Markets & Policy Drivers
Session C4: March 5, 4:30-6pm

The session will explore the current and future role played by geothermal technologies globally. What is the state of the art for their specific technology? What is the realistic potential (2020 � 2050)? What are the global market and policy drivers?

Chairperson: Karl Gawell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energies Association
Speaker: Ruggero Bertani, Enel, S.P.A.
Speaker: Stephen Hirsch, Vice President, Project Development, Geothermal Development Associates
Speaker: Alexander Richter, Director, Global Niche Research & Communication, Glitnir Bank, Iceland
Speaker: Subir Sanyal, President, GeothermEx


Geothermal: US Markets & Policy Drivers
Session C5: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

The session will explore the current and future role played by geothermal technologies in the U.S.  What is the state of the art for their specific technology? What is the realistic potential (2020 � 2050)? What are the global market and policy drivers?

Chairperson: Dennis Gilles, Senior Vice President, Calpine Corporation
Speaker: Halley Dickey, UTC Power
Speaker: Daniel Ellis, President, ClimateMaster
Speaker: Dan Fleischmann, Project Initiation Manager, Ormat Technologies, Inc.
Speaker: Karl Gawell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association
Speaker: Steve Munson, Vulcan Power Company
Speaker: Jonathan Weisgall, Vice President, MidAmerican Energy Holdings
 

Biomass 1

Biomass Industries: Environmental Stewardship & Resource Sustainability
Session D1: March 5, 8:30-10:00am

Sustainability concerning biomass feedstocks will be addressed by policies, standards, regulations and widely acceptable procedures. Also, stewardship ethics, worker and community well being, enhancement of wildlife and their habitat, integrity in transactions and fair mindedness.

Chairperson: Barbara Bramble, Senior Program Advisor for International Affairs, National Wildlife Federation
Speaker: Andrea Kutter, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Speaker: Earnie Shea, Project Coordinator, 25 x 25 Partnership
Speaker: Barbara Stinson, Senior Partner, Meridian Institute
Speaker: Michael Totten, Chief Advisor, Climate, Water and Ecosystem Services, Conservation International
Speaker: Carol Werner, Executive Director, Energy and Environmental Studies, Environment and Energy Institute

Biofuel Feedstocks
Session D2: March 5, 10:30-12:00pm

Biofuel Feedstocks - Biomass feedstocks are rapidly becoming fungible; paying serious attention to such factors as water and land availability, planting, fertilizing, harvesting and transporting the biomass will provide crop and forest lands with an important level of defense against intrusions into these lands by developers. This panel will explore the most recent issues and advances in biofuel feedstock production.

Chairperson: Howard Cloch, President, CSLM Energy Ltd.
Chairperson: John Walker, Vice President, Innovative Bio-Technologies
Speaker: Janet Hawkes, Doctor of Agriculture, RPM Ecosystems
Speaker: Jim Kleinschmidt, Director, Rural Communities Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Speaker: Donna Perla, Senior Advisor to Director of Sustainability, US Environmental Protection Agency
Speaker: Mike Schmidt, Forestry Biomass Project Manager, John Deere


Current Ethanol Production Technology
Session D3: March 5, 2:00-4:00pm

This panel will focus on advances in production of ethanol in starch and sugar crops. The discussion will assure the public that starch and sugar crops not only launched the ethanol industry world wide, but will be a positive part of the future biofuels industries.

Chairperson: Dave Vandergriend, President & CEO, ICM
Chairperson: Joel Velasco, Chief U.S. Representative, Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry
Speaker: Sheshank Inamdar, CEO and Managing Director, PRAJ Industries, Ltd.
Speaker: Eric Washburn, American Coalition for Ethanol

Biofuels Financing
Session D4: March 5, 4:30-6:00pm

This panel presents an update on the state of financing for biofuels production facilities and related infrastructure, IPOs, and capital markets.  M&A activity in the market today.  Prospects for Big Oil to move into biofuels.

Chairperson: Mark Riedy, Partner, Andrews Kurth
Speaker: Paul Ho, Director, Renewable Energy, Credit Suisse
Speaker: Jeff Kistner, Vice President Project Finance, BBI Biofuels Australia Pty. Ltd.
Speaker: Carl Knowlton, Managing Partner, John Hancock Financial Services          
Speaker: Geoff Morgan, Partner, Michael Best & Friedrich
Speaker: Mark Hanson, Attorney, Member, Stoel Rives

Ethanol: Global Market Drivers & Outlook
Session D5: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

While the market for US ethanol is partly driven by the comparative cost of ethanol and gasoline, important regulatory drivers like the the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS),  the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETEC), and state incentives are largely viewed as even more critical to the development of the US industry. The international markets have similar policy drivers and will likely focus on domestic and regional factors. This panel will examine successful policies in the leading ethanol producing nations such as the US, Brazil, and various European countries and assess the opportunities for expanded international trade and cooperation. It will also cover the role of ethanol in energy and national security, and carbon and renewable energy credits as factors influencing the market. 

Chairperson: Bob Dinneen, President & CEO, Renewable Fuels Association
Chairperson: Marcos Sawaya Jank, President & CEO, Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry
Speaker: Bliss Baker, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Greenfield Ethanol
Speaker: Doug Berven. Director of Corporate Affairs, POET Research         
Speaker: Robert McFarlane, Principal, Energy & Communications Solutions, LLC

Biofuel Engines & Fueling Stations
Session D6: March 6, 1:30-3:00pm

Fueling pumps offering selections are urgently needed to expand the market for these fuels. Brazil has succeeded in both cases, and the US lags. This panel will examine a range of bioalcohol engines and fueling stations.

Chairperson: Philip Lampert, Executive Director, National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
Speaker: Neill Brown, Special Advisor, Senator Richard G. Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee    
Speaker: Coleman Jones, Biofuel Implementation Management, General Motors
Speaker: Andrew Pouring, CEO, Sonex Research
Speaker: Eddie Sturman, Technical Lead, Sturman Industries

Biomass 2

Biodiesel Market Drivers & Outlook
Session E1: March 5, 8:30-10:00am

This panel will discuss the long-term sustainability of biofuels and availability of feedstocks as the market for biodiesel and other biomass-based diesels continues to grow. The panel will also explore how governments can provide incentives for companies to comply with low carbon and emission standards. 

Chairperson: Joe Jobe, CEO, National Biodiesel Board
Speaker: Ohene Akoto, Director of Operations, Jatropha Africa/LBV/UK
Speaker: Helena Chum, Senior Advisor, Natural Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Speaker: Dennis Donahue, Marine Engineer, Great Lakes, Environmental Research Laboratory, NOAA
Speaker: Michele Rubino, Managing Consultant, Navigant Consulting
 

Biobased Products: Feedstocks, Markets & Drivers
Session E2: March 5, 10:30-12:00pm

This panel will discuss the benefits of biobased products, including less pollution worldwide, a smaller greenhouse gas footprint, reduced petroleum consumption, value added to the biorefinery supply chain, and economic benefits to rural economies. Feedstock and processing costs, market acceptability, public support, government policies, and purchasing power are the principal market drivers.

Chairperson: Brent Erickson, VP of Industry and Environment, Biotechnology Industry Organization
Speaker: Karen Edwards, Washington Representative, Biobased Products Coalition
Speaker: Kim Kristoff, President, GEMTEK Products, LLC
Speaker: Michael Parr, Senior Manager, DuPont
 

Biopower: Feedstocks & Technologies
Session E3: March 5, 2:00pm-4:00pm

This panel will examine aspects of biopower ranging from ag-based and forestry-based feedstocks, pelletization and other fuel processing, and experience using biomass fuels for firing and co-firing boilers, and gasification.

Chairperson: Andrew Kingston, President & CEO, Dynamotive Energy Systems
Chairperson: James Schreck, Chief Chemist, Best Energies, Inc.
Speaker: Richard Carmical, General Manager, The Price Companies
Speaker: Robert Do, President and CEO, Solena Group
Speaker: Melissa Dvorak, Marketing Manager, GHD, Inc.
Speaker: Roger Feldman, Partner, Andrews Kurth

Biorefineries and Integrated Systems
Session E4: March 5, 4:30-6:00pm

This panel will explore the potential for advanced biofuels, biopower, and biobased product technologies that are integrated, including the use of a variety of feedstocks.  Often, integrated biomass processing provides energy, fuels, waste heat, and residual products for other industries.

Chairperson: Marc Rappaport, President, Rappaport Energy Consulting, LLC
Chairperson: Omar Bros, Director, Spirit of Hispainola
Speaker: Eric Apfelbach, President & CEO, Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
Speaker: Andras Kovacs, Managing Director, Szigetvari
Speaker: Prabhakar Nair, Senior Manager, UOP, LLC
Speaker: Lee Stein, Chairman & Founder, Prize Capital LLC
 

Biopower: Market Drivers & Outlook
Session E5: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

The market for biopower is primarily driven by cost factors. The price of biomass is increasingly providing opportunities for lower-grade waste heat for conversion into electricity and useable heat.  The policy drivers at the local, state and national level can be the controlling factor.

Chairperson: Richard Munson, Executive Committee Member, US Clean Heat and Power Association
Speaker: Barry Berman, CEO, Agripower
Speaker: Bob Cleaves, Co-Managing Director, Biomass Stratex Power Energy Producers LLC, and Chairman, USA Biomass Power Producers Alliance
Speaker: Kevin Kephart, Director of Research, South Dakota State University
Speaker: Paul Lemar, President, Resource Dynamics Corporation
Speaker: Peter Fox-Penner, Co-Chairman, The Brattle Group
Speaker: Michael Zimmer, Counsel, Thompson Hine LLP

Next Generation Bio-Alcohol Plants - Around the Corner?
Session E6: March 6, 1:30-3:00pm

There is a wide range of bio-alcohol technologies being explored. Some technologies are already in commercial production in parts of the world. Others are in the demonstration stage and show near-term commercialization. Successful research is underway to convert biomass to a gasoline equivalent fuel and direct biological conversion of biomass to a fuel grade alcohol

Chairperson: Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition
Speaker: Wes Bolsen, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Bus. Dev., Coskata
Speaker: Arnold Klann, President & CEO, BlueFire Ethanol
Speaker: Philip Madson, President, KATZEN International
Speaker: Chris Veit, Biofuels Ethanol Marketing Manager, Novozymes
Speaker: Bill Schafer, Sr. VP, Business Development, Range Fuels, Inc. 
 

Hydro/Ocean

Hydro/Ocean: Global Markets & Policy Drivers
Session F1: March 5, 8:30am-10:00am

The session will explore the current and future role played by hydropower and ocean technologies.  Each speaker will focus on three key questions: What is the state of the art for their specific technology?  What is the realistic potential (2020-2050)?  What are the global market and policy drivers?

Chairperson: Richard Taylor, Executive Director, International Hydropower Association
Speaker: Jean-Michel Devernay, Deputy Managing Director, EDF- Hydro Engineering Centre
Speaker: Refaat Abdel Malek, President, International Hydropower Association
Speaker: Nadia Sood, Executive Vice President, Organisation and Corporate Social Responsibility, SN Power
Speaker: Jochen Weilepp, Head of Innovations, Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generations - GmbH & Co. KG

Hydro/Ocean: US Markets & Policy Drivers
Session F2: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

The session will explore the current and future role played by Hydropower and Ocean technologies in the US. Each speaker will focus on three key questions: What is the state of the art for their specific technology? What is the realistic potential (2020 � 2050)? What are the global market and policy drivers?

Chairperson: Linda Church Ciocci, Executive Director, National Hydropower Association
Speaker: Kevin Banister, Vice President, Business Development, Finavera
Speaker: Burt Hamner, Manager, Tacoma Narrows Tidal Energy Feasibility Study, Puget Sound Tidal Power LLC
Speaker: Wayne Krouse, President, Hydro Green Energy
Speaker: Timothy Oakes, Senior Vice President, Kleinschmidt Assoicates
Speaker: David Youlen, Senior Vice President, North American Development, Brookfield Power Corporation

Hydro/Ocean: Status of Technology
Session F5: March 6, 10:30-12:00pm

Chairperson: Thomas Key, Leader Renewables, Electric Power Research Institute
Speaker: Jason Bak, CEO, Finavera
Speaker: Jason Foust, Hydraulic Design Engineer, Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation - Corporate Engineering
Speaker: Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director, Marine Current Turbines Limited
Speaker: Alejandro Moreno, Wind adn Water Program, DOE
Speaker: Stein Erik Skilhagen, Vice President, Statkraft Development
Speaker: Michael Sale, SENTECH, Inc.

Cross Cutting Sessions

Cross Cutting Session #1: Global Market Drivers National Security & Climate
Session C1:  March 5, 8:30-10:00am

Top speakers cover the national security and climate drivers for RE adoption.  Outlook on oil markets, China, climate negotiations, Big-15 Emitters, and post-Kyoto.

Chairperson: Wolfgang Palz, Former Director, Renewable Energy Program, European Commission
Chairperson: Mike Eckhart, President, ACORE
Speaker: Christopher Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute
Speaker: Katrina Landis, BP
Speaker: Herman Scheer, General Chairman, World Council on Renewable Energy
Speaker: Jim Woolsey, VP, Booz Allen Hamilton

Cross Cutting Session #2: Renewable Energy Impacts: Economic Growth & Jobs
Session F3: March 5, 2:00-4:00pm

Presentations on the economic impact associated with RE markets.  Also job creation in Germany and elsewhere.

Chairperson: Reid Detchon, Executive Director, Energy Future Coalition
Speaker: Jim Dinegar, President & CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Speaker: Christine Eibs-Singer, Deputy Executive Director, E & Co
Speaker: Asgeir Margeirsson, Geysir Green Energy
Speaker: Alan Nogee, Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
Speaker: Christine Woerlin, DENA
Speaker: David Yuko, Executive Director, Institute of Research in Sustainable Energy and Development


Cross Cutting Session #3: Renewable Hydrogen
Session F4: March 5, 4:30-6:00pm

Presentations on the development of Hydrogen by renewable energy sources like wind and solar.  Also, Hydrogen storage and related developments.

Chairperson: Jeff Serfass, Executive Director, National Hydrogen Association
Speaker: Phillip Baxley, President, Shell Hydrogen
Speaker: Frank Novachek, Director, Corporate Planning, Xcel Energy 
Speaker: Robert Friedland, Senior Vice President, Hydrogen Generation Systems, Distributed Energy Systems  
Speaker: Sandy Thomas, President, H2GEN Innovations

Cross Cutting Session #4: Renewable Energy Transmission
Session B5: March 6, 10:30-2:00pm

This session will explore the challenges and solutions facing utilities, developers and government in designing projects and financing transmission for renewable energy. Attendees will learn how to make more use of the grid and expand the transmission system, the role independent transmission company's play alongside utility transmission providers and a perspective on how the many major transmission initiatives underway in the U.S. can support renewable energy development.

Chairperson: Rob Gramlich, Director of Policy, American Wind Energy Association
Speaker: Janet Gail Besser, National Grid
Speaker: Don Furman, PPM
Speaker: Kazuhiko Hayashi, Electric Power & Energy Research Laboratories, Sumitomo Electric
Speaker: Pat Wood, Hunt Transmission Services
   

Cross Cutting Session #5: Grid Integration: Integrating Renewables into Power System Operations
Session B6: March 6, 1:30-3:00pm

Topics addressed by four global leaders will include power system operating issues associated with high penetration of renewables, and associated generation, demand side, and market based solutions.  Generation topics will include increased operational flexibility in the future generation mix, and improvements in renewable plant operation features.  Demand side solutions will include price responsive load and future energy storage options.  Market based solutions will include innovations in market design and operation and new market products.

Chairperson: J. Charles Smith, Executive Director, Utility Wind Integration Group
Speaker: Hans Abilgaard, Senior Systems Analyst, Energinet.dk
Speaker: Bill Capp, President & CEO, Beacon Power
Speaker: Dr. Hamid Elahi, General Manager, Energy Consultant, GE
Speaker: John Kehler, Alberta Electric System Operator

Cross Cutting Session #6: Impact of Carbon Credits on Financing the New Economy
Session C6: March 6, 1:30-3:00pm

Generation of RECs and Carbon credits, marketing of the credits, trading, tracking, versification, valuation, market pricing, and other current aspects of this emerging monetization of the environmental attributes of renewable energy.

Chairperson: Roger Ballentine, President, Green Strategies
Chairperson: Mel Jones, CEO, Sterling Planet
Speaker: John Cavalier, Chairman, Energy Group, Credit Suisse
Speaker: Fabrizio Donini Ferretti, Head of Energy, Dexia Credit Local
Speaker: Stephen Hall, Stoel Rives
Speaker: Michael Liebreich, Founder & CEO, New Energy Finance
Speaker: Jon Sohn, Vice President, Climate Change Capital
Speaker: Bruce Usher, CEO, Ecosecurities

Cross Cutting Session # 7: Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Session F6: March 6th from 1:30 - 3:00PM

A review of the wide range of new and advanced vehicles including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles, and other variations plus renewable fuels and storage.

Chairperson: Marguerite Jones, Plug in Partners Campaign, Austin Energy
Speaker: Pat Cadam, Founder, Green Gears
Speaker: Sanjeev Chaudry, GM, PHEV Aftermarket Products, A123 Batteries
Speaker: Steve Ellis, Manger, Fuel Cell Marketing, Honda
Speaker: Dave Goldstein, President, EVA/DC
Speaker: Britta Gross, Manager, Hydrogen Infrastructure Development and Strategic Commercialization, General Motors Fuel Cell Commercialization
Speaker: Dan Santini, Argonne National Lab