Registration Open: New York State Renewable Energy Development Conference: Electrifying Our Energy Needs

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

The New York Solar Energy Society
Invites you to attend
NEW YORK STATE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT:
Electrifying Our Energy Needs

  • New R & D
  • How to Achieve Net Zero
  • NYS Policy to Match the Goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

SAVE THE DATE!
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - Register Today!

Early bird registration ends January 10th, 2020

Hilton Garden Inn Troy, Osborne Auditorium
235 Hoosick Street, Troy, New York 12180
7:45 am – 5:30 pm

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Program

7:45am
Registration & Breakfast Buffet & EXPO
9:00
“Clean Energy Workforce Development 2020” - Rick Lewandowski, Direct Gain Consulting and NYSERDA Entrepreneur in Residence/Columbia Technology Ventures by NYSERDA
9:45
“Energy Storage Role in Achieving a Carbon-Free Grid” - Dr. William P. Acker (bio), NY Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium

Dr. William Acker - Executive Director, NY-BEST

Dr. William Acker is a well-known and highly-regarded scientist, business leader and entrepreneur in the field of energy. He currently serves as the first Executive Director of NY-BEST, the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium. Under his leadership, NY-BEST has grown its membership to more than 180 companies, created the BEST Test and Commercialization Center and new battery prototyping capabilities, and has performed pioneering work in advancing markets, policy, technology and product development. Dr. Acker is an active and influential voice for energy storage industry in New York State’s groundbreaking Reforming the Energy Vision initiative and he is leading the industry’s participation in the State’s Energy Storage Roadmap initiative.

Dr. Acker’s more than 25-year career in energy includes management and leadership roles with Optiwind, MTI and MTI MicroFuel Cells, Plug Power and Texaco. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Future Energy Systems at RPI, the RIT Battery Prototyping Center, and the Southern Tier Clean Energy Incubator. Previously he served as a Commissioner on the NY Ready Commission that was established by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. He received a Ph.D, in Applied Physics and Engineering from Yale University and a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic University.

10:15
David Bruns, award-winning developer, Bruns Realty Group
11:00
Dr Richard Perez, SUNY Atmospheric Researcher
12:00
Buffet Luncheon
1:00
Tom Philbin, author, Manhattan College grad, longtime energy efficiency expert (more to follow)
1:40
"PV Development in NYS: Home Rule, Breaking Barriers, Community Solar, LMI Constraints, Workforce Training and Development" - Roundtable discussion: moderator Tom Thompson, Solaria. Participants: Winter Clark, ETM Solar; Kevin Bailey, High Peaks Solar; Dennis Phayre, Entersolar; Mark Richardson (bio), U.S. Light Energy

Mark Richardson

Mark Richardson is the President and CEO of U.S. Light Energy and is a solar veteran with more than two decades of solar and energy efficiency industry experience. After taking the reins of U.S. Light Energy in 2017, he has resurrected the Latham, New York based company by shifting the focus to Community Solar project development, where they are now one of the state’s leading developers in New York’s expanding community solar market with over 150 MW of projects in the utilities’ application queue.

4:00
Nicole Bouchez (bio), Principal, Market Structures and Design Dept., NYISO

BNicole Bouchez

Nicole Bouchez, PhD, is the Principal Economist for Market Design at the NYISO. She has worked extensively on designing and evaluating wholesale energy, ancillary service and capacity markets. Her recent work has focused on pricing carbon dioxide emissions in wholesale markets and on the reliable transformation towards a zero-emissions power grid. She holds Doctorate and Masters of Arts degrees in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of California, Davis.

4:30
Reception

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