ASERTTI News
Register Today for the
ASERTTI/NASEO State Energy Policy and Technology
Outlook Conference, February 1-4, 2010
The 2010 State Energy Policy and Technology
Outlook Conference will be held February 1-4, 2010
at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. The event
will be hosted by ASERTTI and National Association
of State Energy Officials (NASEO).
The 2010 ASERTTI/NASEO State Energy Policy and
Technology Outlook Conference will be held at the
Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC. This year's
Conference comes as the States and the nation are in
the midst of an historic energy efficiency and
renewable energy transformation. New policies and
investments are moving rapidly and at an
unprecedented scale with additional programs being
contemplated by Congress and the Administration in
the coming weeks.
Session Highlights
- ARRA State Energy Program and Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant
Implementation
- Road to Recovery – A Look at States' ARRA
Funded Clean Energy Jobs Creation
- DOE ARRA Implementation – Overall Progress
and Expectations
- Vehicle Electrification – Cars,
Infrastructure Investments, and Consumer Demand
- Net Zero Energy Commercial Buildings
Consortium Update
- NREL Update – Transferring Emerging
Technologies
- ARPA-E Update
- Scaling up Renewable Energy Investment
Invited Speakers
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu
- Congressman Steve Israel
- Congressman Paul Tonko
- White House Office of Energy and Climate
Change Policy Director Carol Browner
- Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency Kathleen Hogan
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable
Energy Jacques Beaudry-Losique
- DOE General Counsel Scott Blake Harris
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Director Dan E. Arvizu
- ARPA-e Director, Arun Majumdar
Please
click here to visit the event website for more
information including an updated agenda and online
registration.
$2.3 Billion for New
Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs
President Obama announced the award of $2.3
billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy
Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy
manufacturing projects across the United States. One
hundred and eighty three projects in 43 states will
create tens of thousands of high quality clean
energy jobs and the domestic manufacturing of
advanced clean energy technologies, including solar,
wind, efficiency and energy management
technologies. As part of the Recovery Act, these
tax credits are focused on putting Americans back to
work by building a robust domestic manufacturing
capacity to supply clean and renewable energy
projects with American-made parts and equipment.
These credits are also an important step towards
meeting the President's goal of doubling the amount
of renewable energy the country uses in the next
three years with wind turbines and solar panels
built here in the United States. Please
click here for the full story and a link to the
selected projects.
EPA Webinar: Clean DG Policy
and CHP, January 21, 2010
The CHP Partnership will host a webinar, "CHP:
Opportunities at Wastewater Treatment Facilities" on
January 21, 2010, from 3:00 - 4:30 PM EST. CHP is a
reliable, cost-effective option for municipal
wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) that have, or
are planning to install, anaerobic digesters. Biogas
flow from these digesters can be used in a CHP
system as "free" fuel to generate reliable
electricity and power for the wastewater facility.
This webinar will address opportunities and
challenges of implementing CHP at WWTFs. The webinar
will highlight EPA's CHP Partnership's efforts in
WWTF and plans going forward to further expand this
opportunity as well as two case studies of
successful CHP systems at WWTFs.
To participate, please
click here to fill out an online registration
form. Once your registration is complete, you will
receive a confirmation email with call-in
information and a link to view the presentations
online.
ASERTTI Members RadTech
and NYSERDA Collaborate to Promote Increased
Awareness and Adoption of Energy Saving Ultraviolet
and Electron Beam Technologies
UV-EB East 2009, the first jointly sponsored
conference between ASERTTI members RadTech and
NYSERDA, was held on October 20-21 2009 at the
Niagara Falls Conference Center in Niagara Falls,
NY. The event was attended by over 200 people
including current and potential end users of UV and
EB technology in New York State, who had the
opportunity to learn about how their businesses
could benefit from the adoption of these energy
saving technologies. NYSERDA's Industrial Research
group announced the release of its first targeted
UV/EB solicitation, Program Opportunity Notice (PON)
1641: Ultraviolet Light (UV) and Electron Beam (EB)
Process Innovation and Market Transformation. As
part of the ongoing efforts between RadTech and
NYSERDA to promote increased awareness and adoption
of UV/EB technologies, RadTech will be hosting a
free webinar to promote PON 1641 and will be
creating a forum for encouraging collaboration
between RadTech members and NY State Industrial
customers interested in participating in PON 1641.
The webinar will be held on January 20, 2010 from
2:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST. For more information,
please visit:
www.radtech.org To discuss opportunities to
partner with RadTech, please contact Gary Cohen at
(240) 497-1242. For more information on PON 1641,
please visit:
http://www.nyserda.org/funding/1641pon.asp
ECW Webinar: Scouting for
Residential Electricity Savings, January 27, 2010
The Energy Center of Wisconsin will host a free
webinar, “Scouting for Residential Electricity
Savings” on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, from 1:00 -
2:30 PM Central Time. In this webinar, co-principal
investigators Scott Pigg and Ingo Bensch present
results from "Plugging into Savings" a field
research project funded by the Minnesota Office of
Energy Security and Minnesota Power Company. Viewers
will gain insights to help residential energy
consumers manage their plugged-in electronics and
slay their energy vampires. For more information and
to register for the webinar, please
click here.
Compressed Air
Challenge - Fundamentals of Compressed Air Systems
WE (web-edition)
The Compressed Air Challenge (CAC) is pleased to
announce the launch of Fundamentals of Compressed
Air Systems WE (web-edition) on February 22, 2009.
This web-based version of the popular Fundamentals
of Compressed Air Systems training uses an
interactive format that enables the instructor to
diagram examples, give pop quizzes and answer
students' questions in real time. The course will
launch on February 22, 2010 will subsequent classes
on March 1, March 8 and March 15. The classes will
begin at 11 AM eastern and will last approximately 2
hours each. Please
click here for additional information and to
register online.
DOE Announces Inaugural ARPA-E
Energy Innovation Summit
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced
that the inaugural "ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit"
will take place March 1-3, 2010 at the Gaylord
National Hotel and Convention Center in Washington,
D.C. The event, hosted by the U.S. Department of
Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
(ARPA-E) and organized by the Clean Technology and
Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI), with key
support from the National Venture Capital
Association (NVCA) and the Kauffman Foundation, will
serve as a forum for the nation's energy leaders to
share ideas, collaborate, and identify key
technology opportunities and challenges. Summit
participants will include members of the scientific
and research communities, investors, technology
entrepreneurs, corporations with an interest in
clean energy technologies, policymakers, and
government officials. For more information and a
link to the Summit website, please
click here.
Arthur Rosenfeld Steps Down
from the California Energy Commission
A driving force in making California a global
leader in efficiency, this week, the 83-year-old
nuclear physicist, Arthur Rosenfeld, will leave his
post on the California Energy Commission. A recent
Los Angeles Times article describes the tremendous
contribution to energy efficiency made by
Rosenfeld's long career. According to the article,
California homes are loaded with personal computers,
widescreen TVs, iPods, PlayStations, air
conditioners, massive refrigerators, hot tubs and
swimming pool pumps. Despite that, Golden State
residents today use about the same amount of
electricity per capita that they did 30 years ago.
For that, they can largely thank Rosenfeld, a
slight, bespectacled nuclear physicist fueled by a
passion to wring the most out of every kilowatt.
Polite and affable, with a knack for making science
understandable to people who couldn't screw in a
light bulb, Rosenfeld, starting in the 1970s,
provided California energy regulators the data they
needed to enact some of the toughest efficiency
standards in the world.
The principle, Rosenfeld said, was simple:
Conserving energy is cheaper and smarter than
building power plants. To read the entire Los
Angles Times story, please
click here.
DOE Chief Research Officers (CRO)
Release Transforming America's Energy Economy
The Chief Research Officers of the U.S.
Department of Energy national laboratories for the
National Laboratory Directors Council recently
prepared Transforming America's Energy Economy, a
white paper that addresses President Obama's call
for a transformation of America's energy economy to
ensure our energy security and to mitigate the
environmental consequences associated with our
current dependence on carbon-intensive energy
sources. The purpose of the white paper is to
describe specific near-term opportunities and
longer-term research challenges that will enable the
required transformation. Please
click here to link directly to the CRO white
paper. |
