FESC May 2015 Workshop

Presentations

 

Wednesday, May 20 – Presentations

 

GENERAL SESSION:
Moderator: Jennifer Curtis, FESC Director

 

8:15 – 8:25 am WELCOME, Buck Martinez, Senior Director Office of Clean Energy, Florida Power & Light Company

 

8:25 – 10:00 am OVERVIEW and POLICY PANEL SESSION
Moderator: Buck Martinez, Senior Director Office of Clean Energy, Florida Power & Light Company

 

Overview: Florida’s Energy Future, Amy L. Stein, Professor, UF Levin College of Law

Policy: A Changing Energy Landscape, Jeremy Susac, Berger Singerman

Natural Gas: Natural Gas Markets – Why Prices Continue to Trend Lower, Meera Bagati, Sr. Economist, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC

 

10:15 – 11:15 am SESSION I: RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE POWER AND STORAGE PANEL SESSION
Moderator: Camille E. Coley, J.D., Assistant VP for Research, Associate Director for the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC), Florida Atlantic University

 

Marine Energy: Ocean Energy Turbine Development, Phillip Janca, Co-founder, Crowd Energy and Founder, TEKNA Manufacturing, LLC

American Job Project: The American Jobs Project: Florida State Roadmap to Clean Energy Jobs, Jin Noh, University of California, Berkeley

 

11:15 am – 12:25pm SESSION I ORAL PRESENTATIONS (5 min each)

 

Track I: Renewable/Alternative Power and Storage
Chair: Camille E. Coley, J.D., Assistant VP for Research, Associate Director for the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC), Florida Atlantic University

 

Track II: Education
Chair: Jennifer Curtis,
FESC Director

 

2:30 – 3:30 pm SESSION II: BIOMASS AND SOLAR ENERGY PANEL SESSION
Moderator: Tommy Boroughs, Partner, Holland & Knight

 

Biomass: Transformational Biomanufacturing Technologies for Sustainable Fuel and Chemical Production, Ramon Gonzalez, Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, Director, Energy and Environment Initiative (EEI), Rice University

Solar Energy: State of the Solar Market: Innovations and Trends, Miriam Makhyoun, Solar Energy Industry Expert

 

3:30 – 4:40 pm SESSION II SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS (5 min each)

 

Track I: Biomass Marriott
Chair: George Philippidis, Associate Professor, Sustainable Energy, Patel College of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida

 

Track II: Solar Energy Marriott
Chair: Jim Fenton, Director, Florida Solar Energy Center

 

THURSDAY, May 21 – Presentation

8:30 – 9:00 am GENERAL SESSION
Moderator: Jennifer Curtis, FESC Director

 

A Grid in Transition – A Look at Power Systems Regulations , Jordan Kislear, Program Analyst at US Department of Energy

 

9:00 – 10:00 am SESSION III: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SMART GRID/ENERGY STORAGE PANEL SESSION
Moderator: Jeremy Susac, Berger Singerman

 

Energy Efficiency: Some History, Buildings and the Grid, Jim Payne, Technology Project Officer, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US DOE

Smart Grid: Bridging Gaps between Design, Operations and Software in Smart Grids—Next Generation SCADA, Marija Ilic, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am SESSION III ORAL PRESENTATIONS (5 min each)

 

Track I: Energy Efficiency
Chair: Rob Vieira, Director, Buildings Research Division, Florida Solar Energy Center

 

Track II: Smart Grid & Energy Storage
Chair: Sean Meyn, Director Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy, Director Laboratory for Cognition & Control, Professor of ECE and Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair