April 16th, 2014

The Atlantic Wind Connection is an offshore, undersea transmission line that will span the mid-Atlantic region, beginning in northern New Jersey and eventually extending to southern Virginia. The transmission line will connect wind farms that are built in the federally-designated “Wind Energy Areas,” at least ten miles off the coast. Bob Mitchell, CEO of the Atlantic Wind Connection and Trans-Elect, and Pierre Bernard, Managing Partner of Bernard EnergyAdvocacy, will provide an overview of the project and its significance for the future of East Coast electricity transmission.

May 13th, 2014

Nexant’s proprietary World Gas Model  will be used to analyse the impact on the world gas market of LNG exports from North America.  How much will be exported, which markets will it go to and what are the implications for gas pricing in different markets, especially Europe and Asia Pacific.  The impact of differing levels of LNG exports on the North American market will also be assessed.  

February 18th, 2014

 The purpose of this talk is to familiarize participants with Smart Grid concepts and solutions, including Distribution Optimization, Transmission Optimization, Asset Optimization, Demand Optimization, Smart Meters and Communications, and Workforce and Engineering Design Optimization. Smart Grid industry standards efforts will be discussed, including SGIP 2.0, IEEE, CIGRE and IEC. The impact of policy on Smart Grid technology investment will be shown globally. An overview of recent Smart Grid deployments will be given, including the lessons learned from the deployments.

December 9th, 2013

Deploying critical projects at utility scale, the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is a financing force for the clean energy economy and is one of the largest project finance teams in the world managing the largest innovative energy and transportation portfolio in the world.

September 9th, 2013

This briefing will discuss solutions to providing rapid deployment of reliable power to address energy shortages, regional energy security, and rapid response to natural disasters in the Developing world.  The briefing will be provided by Caterpillar's Rental Power Group.

September 13th, 2013

Energy storage is widely seen as a key element of any sustainable energy future scenario.  In the last few years, storage technologies have seen an increase in deployments across the United States and internationally, but are still an emerging suite of technologies.  What storage technologies are currently available for commercial use?  Which technologies under development hold the most promise for different storage applications?  Please join experts from the U.S. Department of Energy and EPRI for a discussion on the current and future status of energy storage technologies.

July 30th, 2013

The U.S. Energy Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Senior Research Leader, Energy and Environment, Battelle, will provide a briefing on CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery and Geologic Storage in the Midwestern USA.  The briefing will be held in USEA's Executive Conference Room at 2 PM on July 30, 2013.

July 23rd, 2013

• The national security role of a domestic enrichment technology – its use in national security and nonproliferation applications
• The rebirth of U.S. centrifuge technology through the American Centrifuge program

July 30th, 2013

Senior representatives from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. will provide an overview of cybersecurity protection trends for energy delivery systems and the current legislative and regulatory landscape including:

July 15th, 2013

The idea of removing CO2 from the atmosphere was considered as a method of mitigating the potential impact of global warming as early as the mid-1960s. Since that time several potential techniques have emerged as practical proposals. These include designs for 'air capture' machines that use chemical processes to directly remove carbon from air. The use of such machines offers opportunities to collect and store atmospheric CO2 without geographical constraint, effectively decoupling the location of capture from that of the emissions source.