presentations cont'd...

• 10:00-10:30a Home-Use Biomass Energy Practices in North America. Dillon Franks, President & Partner, Relevant Ideas, LLC (click for bio)
  
  
• 11:00a-11:30 Energy Cost Floors to Support Alternative Developments. Bryan Eckstein of Perrin Quarles Assocs. presented carbon pricing and the current tax credit environment (click for bio); William F. Hall, Adjunct Prof. of Eng'g at UVA presented Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the incentivizing measures for creating one (click for bio)
  
  
• 11:30a-12:00p Efficiency Expands Limited Resources. Covering commercial and residential efficiencies, CHP, conservation pricing for utilities. Al Weed, Chairman, Public Policy Virginia (click for bio)
  
  
• 12:00p-1:00p Alternative Energy Technology in Sweden. (Featured Luncheon Speaker). The Hon. Michael M. Wood, US Ambassador to Sweden, 2006-2009. (click for bio)
  
  
• 1:00-1:30p The Chemistry of Bioenergy. An overview of common terms and concepts in bioenergy, e.g., aerobic, anaerobic, pyrolysis, torrefaction, syn gas, etc. Dr. Don Wells, Research Director, Public Policy Virginia (click for bio)
  
  
• 1:30-2:15p Pellet Production and Challenges in Virginia. Bill Carden, CEO, Potomac Supply Corp. (click for bio)
  
  
• 2:15-3:00p Torrefaction. Walt Dickinson, CEO, Integro Earth Fuels, Asheville, NC (click for bio)
  
  
• 3:00-3:45p District Energy. CHP efficiencies, European experience, economies of scale, the Southern environment. Morris A. Pierce, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (click for bio)