AGENDA
8:00 - 8:45 Registration & Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome
Kathryn Westcott, Executive Director, ACEC/NC
9:00 – 9:30 Energy Outlook & Economy
Jon Williams, Assistant Secretary for Energy, North
Carolina Department of Commerce
9:30 – 10:30 Renewable Energy Opportunities in North Carolina: Solar, Wind & Biomass
Moderated by: Roger Woods, United Engineering Group
Mike Dodson, Director of Renewable Energy &
Sustainability, PowerWorks
Bryan O’Hara, President, North Carolina Offshore Wind
Coalition
Mark Albenze, CEO, Siemens Energy Wind Power
Americas
Tom Monter, Biomass Engineering Specialist, Honeywell
Building Solutions
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 12:00 Energy Futures: Generation & Delivery in the 21st Century
Moderated by: Mike Creed, McKim & Creed
Lloyd Yates, President & CEO, Progress Energy Carolinas
Rodney Myers, Vice President of Engineering &
Operations Services, Piedmont Natural Gas
Ed White, Former Chairman, Itron, Inc.
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
Keynote by Steven Burke, President & CEO, Biofuels
Center of North Carolina
1:45 – 2:45 Emerging Technology: Plasma-Arc Gasification
Moderated by: Randy Poole, Stantec Consulting
Services, Inc.
Tom Stringfellow, Senior Consulting Engineer, Halcrow
2:45 – 3:15 Update from the NC Legislature
Rep. Mike Hager, Chairman, House Select Committee on
Energy Independence and Alternative Fuel, North
Carolina General Assembly
3:15 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 – 4:00 Shale Gas Extraction – What the Studies Show & Current Legislative Obstacles and Opportunities
Moderated by: Jim Smith, Taylor Wiseman & Taylor
Sarah Plikunas, Climate/Energy Research Associate,
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Stanford Baird, Partner, K&L Gates
4:00 – 5:00 To Drill or Not to Drill: A Point/Counterpoint Discussion on Shale Gas Extraction
Moderated by: Nathan Atkinson, Member,
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC
Panelists:
Scott Rotruck, VP of Corporate Development,
Chesapeake Energy
Grady McCallie, Policy Director, NC Conservation
Network
5:00 – 5:30 Closing Remarks by:
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue
5:30 Adjourn
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This program offers 7.5 PHD credits
for Professional Engineers!
$135 ACEC/NC Members
$135 Public Sector Employees
$295 Non-Members
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