Day 1 : 'Getting Ready'
26 May: 'Getting Ready' for a Great Adventure in Community Wind.
The first day of the Annual Community Wind Conference will cover aspects relating to the preparation phase, all you have to do before you can start executing your Community Wind project:
Topics:
- Community Wind 101 - Introduction
- Wind-, Interconnection-, Transmission Assessment. Opportunities and Challenges.
- Legal / Regulatory: Permits, Zoning, Community buy-in
- Ownership
- Financing and Investing: Sources and Cost of Capital, Getting Funded, Business Cases and Best Practices
Speakers:
| Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) |
Speaker | Institution |
Topic |
| 06:00 | |||
| 07:00 | |||
| 08:00 | Lisa Barnett, National Coordinator WPA | US Department of Energy / Wind Powering America | |
| 09:00 | Stefan Gsänger, Secretary-General | World Wind Energy Association | Global Wind Energy Overview |
| 10:00 | Ted Cowan | Ontario Federation of Agriculture | |
| 11:00 | Lisa Daniels, Executive Director and Founder | Windustry | |
| 12:00 | Tim Weis, Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency | Pembina Institute | Arctic Energy Solutions |
| 13:00 | Larry Sherwood, Executive Director, Small Wind Certification Council. | Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) | |
| 14:00 | Dr. Bruce H. Bailey, President and CEO | AWS Truewind | Estimating On-Site Energy Production Potential Through Wind Measurement and Modeling |
| 15:00 | Johan de Leeuw, Director | Wind Energy Solutions | Produce where you use (distributed Wind Power generation) |
| 16:00 | Confirmed, speaker to be announced | American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) | |
| 17:00 | Chris Cassidy, Renewable Energy Coordinator, National Office | United States Department of Agriculture | Where to find financial support: Government Programs, Farm Bills and the Stimulus Package |
| 18:00 | (Reserved) | (Reserved) | |
| 19:00 | |||
| 20:00 | Jonathan Cocker, Partner | Baker & McKenzie LLP, Barristers & Solicitors | Canadian project financing issues in energy projects |
| 21:00 | Jim Trevold, Facility Director | Spirit Lake Community School, Iowa. | Case: Spirit Lake Community School, Iowa |
| 22:00 | David Shapero, Managing Director | Future Energy Pty. Ltd. | Hepburn Community Wind Park, Australia's first Commmunity Owned Wind Farm |
* = scheduled times can change
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