USCHPA Annual Meeting
Join USCHPA for a strategy session featuring policymakers, practitioners, financiers and pundits discussing the future of clean energy technologies and offering guidance on ways to maximize the role of clean heat and power as a solution to climate change.
Tentative Agenda
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM- Continental Breakfast
- Welcome, Jessica Bridges, Executive Director, USCHPA
- David Dewis, USCHPA Chairman and Vice President, Calnetix
Introduction of Castelaz Scholars
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM- Keynote Address, U.S. Senator Thomas Carper* (D-DE), Chairman, Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
A long-time champion of CHP, Senator Carper will discuss Congressional priorities for reducing air pollution and addressing climate change in the 111th Congress.
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM- Carbon Policy and the Next Administration
Session Leader: Paul Lemar, Chair, USCHPA Carbon Policy Working Group and President, Resource Dynamics, LLC Trade or Tax? It’s coming. Mr. Lemar will present the recommendations of USCHPA’s Carbon Policy Working Group and lead a discussion on the prospects for carbon policy under a President McCain or President Obama.
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM- Break
- Implementing the Industrial Energy Efficiency Provisions of “EISA” 2007: Roundtable and Open Forum
Session Leader: Dick Munson, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Public Affairs, Recycled Energy Development
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 authorized several programs to support industrial energy efficiency applications, including CHP and waste energy recovery. Join us for this status report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to implement the Waste Energy Registry, and the Department of Energy’s preparations to implement the $200 Million Waste Energy Incentive Grant Program and ongoing efforts to support the “Clean Energy Application Centers”.
Noon – 1:00 PM- Buffet Lunch
- Second Keynote Address, Dan Reicher*, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google.org
Mr. Reicher is a former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and helmed EERE when the 1998 CHP Challenge to reach 92 GW by 2010 was adopted. Hear what this thought leader has to say about U.S. progress on energy efficiency over the last decade and where, from Google’s perspective, clean heat and power fits into the global climate change solution.
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM- New Congress: A New Day for Clean Heat and Power?
Session Leader: Erik Prince, Director – Government Relations, Cummins, Inc. Clean heat and power has gained significant recognition and support in the 110th Congress. This panel will feature Capitol Hill insiders and policy experts discussing opportunities for continuing that trend in the 111th. Participants will address the continuing legislative push to secure tax incentives for CHP, and discuss prospects for funding CHP programs in light of serious budgetary limitations and the added distractions of an election year.
3:30 PM – 3:45PM- Break
- State and Regional Policy Forum
Session Leaders: Suzanne Watson, Policy Director, ACEEE and Ted Bronson, President, Power Equipment Associates This interactive session will showcase “best practices” from the state and regional level that have identified clean heat and power as a solution to carbon reduction and provided incentives for the deployment of clean energy technologies as a means of mitigating the impact of climate change.
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM- Presentation of CHP Champion Awards
- Cocktail Reception
- CEO Dinner (Invitation Only)
DoubleTree Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia