Global Workshop on
Grid Connected Renewable Energy

August 31 to September 4, 2009, Washington, DC

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Day One- Monday, August 31, 2009

Keynote

Barriers and Key Issues for Grid Connected Renewables

Dr. Jan Hamrin, Chief Executive Officer, HMW International

Overview and Distribution of "Handbook on Best Practices for the Successful Deployment of Grid-Connected Renewable Energy, Distributed Generation, Cogeneration and Combined Heat and Power in India"

Tricia Williams, Senior Program Coordinator, USEA

Policy, Incentives and Regulation for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Applications; Federal and State Perspectives

Brian O'Hanlon, Senior Renewable Energy Analyst, Office of Energy and Environmental Industries, U.S. Department of Commerce

Gearold Knowles, Schiff Hardin, LLP

Kevin Mosier, Renewable Standards Program, Maryland Public Service Commission

Guido Glania, Secretary General, Alliance for Rural Electrification (EU), Brussels, Belgium

Utility Integrated Resource Planning with Renewable Energy

Dr. M. Masood Ahmad, Director, Integrated Resource Planning, Dominion Resources, Inc.

Michael Lee, Director, Integrated Resource Planning Division, Maryland Public Service Commission

The Current Status of Renewable Energy in Developing Countries

Presentations by:

1. Afghanistan
2. Egypt
3. Georgia
4. Indonesia
5. Liberia
6. Philippines
7. Tajikistan

Day Two- Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Utility Perspectives on Grid Connected Renewable Energy

Jaspal Deol, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

Julia Hamm, Executive Director, Solar Energy Power Association

Tricia Williams, Senior Program Coordinator, USEA

Project Financing

Suzanne Perry, Baker "&" McKenzie

José Galindez, CEO, Solarpack

Hoda Atia Moustafa, The World Bank

Technology Overview

Solar Energy Systems

Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group

Ronald Brzezinski, Power Generation, Commercial Manager, GE Energy

Wind Energy Systems

Ronald Brzezinski, Power Generation, Commercial Manager, GE Energy

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Cogeneration Systems

Richard Brent, Solar Turbines

Department of Defense Renewable Programs

Chris Tindal, Deputy Director for Renewable Energy of the Naval Energy Office

Bio-Energy Systems

Sylvain Motycka, MS, MEng, Director of Technology , Solena Group, Inc.

Day Three- Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Photovoltaic Systems in Grid Connected Applications and Mini-Grids-Technical Solutions, Requirements and Trends

Dr. Ing. Matthias Vetter, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

Grid Interconnection Technical Issues and Best Practices

Jason Keyes, Interstate Renewable Energy Council

Jaspal Deol, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

Tricia Williams, Senior Program Coordinator, USEA

Contractual Issues and Best Practices

Dr. Jan Hamrin, Chief Executive Officer of HMW International

Suzanne Perry, Baker "&" McKenzie

Luncheon Keynote

Application of Programmatic CDM to Renewable Energy Projects in Emerging Market Countries: A Case Study of Methane-to-Markets

Bill Meade, Member of PA's Management Team, and Co-author Miguel Franco, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group

Site Visit: Stafford County Regional Landfill
Electricity Produced from Landfill Recovered Methane

The Stafford County Regional Landfill, located on Eskimo Hill Road in Stafford, began producing renewable energy from the landfill gas on Sept. 17, 2008 when the Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board signed a 20-year contract with Ameresco, an energy services company experienced in the development of clean energy projects. Usually, landfill gas, which is about 50 percent methane, was extracted through wells and pipes buried in the landfill and combusted in a flare. However, the gas is now diverted from the flare to the landfill gas plant, which is equipped with two specialized GE Jenbacher engines designed to burn landfill gas. The facility can generate 2.14 megawatts of renewable energy — enough to power more than 1,300 homes a day — by using the landfill gas generated by decomposing waste at the landfill.

Day Four- Thursday, September 3, 2009

Site visit: Solar Energy Facilities, Office and Residence of Scott Sklar, The Stella Group, Ltd.

Scott Sklar, The Stella Group's founder and president demonstrated his solar home in Arlington, Virginia which has solar water heating, passive solar building features (including double-paned, argon-filled windows, LO/MIT thermal barrier paint in the attic, R38 insulation), energy efficient fixtures and appliances (such as Whirlpool Cabrio washer), 1.2 kW of Solarex polycrystalline photovoltaics and 0.5 kW of UniSolar ‘peel-and-stick’ modules on a metal-seamed roof on the front porch, and a 24 gel cell battery bank tied to a Xantrex SWPlus inverter. The house boast’s Virginia’s first direct exchange (geothermal) ground-coupled heat pump. The Stella Group's Virginia office building has 1 kW of UniSolar photovoltaic roofing shingles, a 3.6 kW GridPoint smart battery bank, a 0.5 kW small wind turbine by Southwest Windpower, solar daylight tube, and has the first commercial lease of a 5 kW Plug Power fuel cell (running on recycled industrial hydrogen in canisters) tied to a dedicated Xantrex inverter.

Site Visit: Covanta Alexandria/Arlington Resources Recovery Facility

The Alexandria/Arlington Resource Recovery Facility began commercial operation in February 1988 and serves about 300,000 residents of the County of Arlington and the City of Alexandria, which jointly own the site. The facility's three, 325 ton-per-day furnaces process 975 tons of solid waste, generating up to 23 megawatts of renewable energy that is sold to Dominion Virginia Power Company. The facility is located on the smallest site of any of the waste-to-energy plants operated by Covanta Energy.