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CREC 2010 Agenda & Event Schedule


Friday, June 18th  |  Saturday, June 19th  |  Sunday, June 20th

SESSION TRACKS
Communities/Policy
Clean Energy: Technology Frontiers
Buildings
Friday, June 18th - Pre-Conference Events
Workshops (Free, Registration Required)  Details>>
  9:00 am -   4:00 pm Workshop 1 - Bio-fuels/BioEnergy Montrose
  9:00 am -   4:00 pm  Workshop 2 - GEO Regional Planning Montrose
  1:00 pm -   5:00 pm  Workshop 3 - Micro-Hydro Ouray
  1:00 pm -   4:00 pm  Clean Energy Tour (Details)
FREE Self-Guided Tours in the Montrose Area
 
  4:00 pm -   6:00 pm  Registration  Montrose Pavilion Lobby
  5:30 pm -   7:30 pm  Reception 
(cash bar for wine and beer)
Montrose Pavilion
     
Saturday, June 19th - Colorado Renewable Energy Conference
  7:30 am -   5:00 pm  Registration Montrose Pavilion Lobby
  8:00 am -   5:00 pm  Exhibits (Free and Open to the Public) Reception Area
  8:00 am -   8:30 pm  Welcome to Montrose and CREC 2010
Kathy Ellis, Mayor of Montrose
Tony Prendergast, DMEA Board Member
Tony Frank, Executive Director, CRES
 
  8:30 am -   9:15 pm  Keynote Address
Don Marostica, Director, Colorado OEDIT
"Going Green is Good Business"
Auditorium
  9:15 am -   9:30 pm  Break  
  9:30 am - 10:30 am  Breakout Session I  
  Communities/Policy
Jon Schulz, Energy Resource, Local Economy
Dr. Barbara Farhar, CSP in San Luis Valley
 
  Clean Energy: Technology Frontiers
Kurt Johnson, Micro-Hydro
Lindsay George, Low-Head Hydro Potential
 
  Buildings
John McAllister, Building Recommissioning
Ryan Hughes, Measurement & Verification
 
 10:30 am - 11:30 am  Breakout Session II  
  Communities/Policy
Renewable Energy in Coops Panel
Jim Heneghan, Delta-Montrose Electric Assn.
Lee Boughey, Tri-State Generation and Transm.
Wes Perrin, San Miguel Power Assn.
 
  Clean Energy: Technology Frontiers
Morgan Williams, Western Colorado Bioenergy
Roger Freeman, Waste to Energy
 
  Buildings
Gardner Clute, Efficient Greenhouse Design
Amanda Wierzba, EE Audit Study
 
  11:30 am - 12:00 pm  Lunch  
  12:00 pm -   1:00 pm Invited Candidates Viewpoints:
"Perspectives on Energy, Jobs and Colorado's Future" (Free and open to the public)
John Hickenlooper (D)
Bonnie Peterson representing Scott McInnis (R)

Moderator: Billie Stanton, Managing Editor, Montrose Daily Press
 
   1:00 pm -   1:30 pm  Policy Cafe (with coffee and pastries provided)
Brainstorming on Clean Energy Policy
Directions for 2011 and Beyond
 
   1:30 pm -   2:30 pm  Breakout Session III  
  Communities/Policy
Local Regulation of Wind Projects Panel
Roger Freeman, Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLC
Wade Haerle, EIS Solutions
Mike Bowman, National Steering Committee, 25 x '25
 
  Clean Energy: Technology Frontiers
Jeff Tobe, Agricultural Solar and Micro-Hydro
 
  Buildings: Technology
Michael Haughey, Technology for Efficiency
 
   2:30 pm -   2:45 pm  Break  
   2:45 pm -   3:45 pm Breakout Session IV  
  Communities/Policy
Leslie Weise, Energy Efficiency Potential
Joyce McLaren, State of RE Policy
 
  Clean Energy: Technology Frontiers
Mark Labac,, Ventilation Management
Ken Beitel, Renewable Energy and 401K
 
  Buildings
Thom Johnson, RE, EE and Sustainability
 
   3:45 pm -   4:00 pm Break  
  4:00  pm -   5:00 pm  Joint CRES/DMEA Featured Keynote
(Free and open to the public)
Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly
"Climate, Energy, Security"
 
   5:00 pm -    6:00 pm  Cocktail Hour
(Cash Bar for Wine and Beer)
 
   6:00 pm 

Conference Dinner

Video Address by R. James Woolsey Jr.
Former Director of the CIA

Presentation of CRES Awards
See CRES Clips Round-Up of Winners

Dinner Speaker - Steve Andrews,
"The Big Energy Issues: oh oh oh, look look look, damn damn damn"
Long-time CRES Member and Founder, U.S. Chapter of the Assn for the Study of Peak Oil

Montrose Pavilion
     
Sunday, June 20th - Clean Energy Tours
  10:00 am -   2:30 pm 

Clean Energy Tour
FREE Self-Guided Tours in the Montrose Area

Click on the listings for available tour guidebooks; please limit your visits to times specified in the guidebooks.

 

Updated as of June 17th, 2010

2010 Colorado Renewable Energy Conference
“Clean Energy: Let's Get to Work
June 18-20, 2010 / Montrose Pavilion, 1800 Pavilion Drive, Montrose, CO  81401

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