ACEC/NC "Placing Your Energy Bets" Symposium - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2016

Description

ACEC North Carolina is hosting the “Placing Your Energy Bets” Energy Symposium.  The way energy is bought and sold has been changing and will continue to dramatically change over the next decade.  Renewable energy sources are coming onto the grid at a record pace, the new “Atlantic Coast Pipeline” is being built to transport gas from West Virginia through North Carolina, and we now have natural gas exploration legislation that allows hydraulic fracturing.  At the same time, the deployment of “smart grid” and “microgrid” technologies are producing alternative means that allow power to be produced and distributed in new ways.  

Additionally, there is continual opportunity to provide a variety of energy savings opportunities in new and existing buildings as innovative methods and practices develop and evolve.  By placing an emphasis on the life cycle performance of a building a full spectrum of planning, repairing, renewing, and sustaining new and existing systems can be delivered.
 
 The “Placing Your Energy Bets” Energy Symposium will be an opportunity to educate attendees and participants on the driving forces behind these changes from a variety of speakers from across the energy spectrum. Furthermore, they will leave better able and more knowledgeable in their capacity to prepare their companies to leverage new opportunities that are arising because of this transformation.  


Agenda
9:00 am – Registration opens
9:30 am – 10:30am –Natural Gas Exploration in NC   (1 PDH)
Dr. Kenneth Taylor, NC Geological Survey
10:30 am – 11:30 am – Gas Turbine Technology/Combined Heat and Power (CHP)/CHP Market Outlook (1 PDH)
Arnaud Van Der Haegen, Caterpillar
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Lunch with Keynote (.5 PDH)
Energy Economics: Timothy Quinlan, Wells Fargo
12:45 pm – 1:45pm – Energy Conservation (1 PDH)
Jeff Thompson, ​Asset Management Services for Orange County, North Carolina
1:45pm – 2:45 pm – Electrical Grid Power (1 PDH)
Ramesh Shankar, UNCC EPIC Center
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm – Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – "Compare the Potential"- BioEnergy    (1 PDH)
Gus Simmons, Cavanaugh
4:00 pm – Event Ends

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made no later than five business days prior to the event for a full refund.  After this date no cash refunds will be granted.  Substitutions are welcome.


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