"Prelude to the New Energy Debate in Northeast Ohio"
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From TransTech and the New Energy Roundtable (NER)
The recently created New Energy Roundtable has identified five areas that connect Energy, Sustainability and Economic Development. The group hosted at Case’s Center for Regional Economic Issues is composed of scientists, entrepreneurs, energy specialists, economic development and community development professionals, and other individuals and organizations from across the region. (Learn more: New Energy Roundtable)
The five areas identified to focus on initially are: network mapping of Northeast Ohio’s energy community; transportation related opportunities; stationary energy opportunities; energy conservation; and the role of Northeast Ohio universities in advocacy, technology transfer, joint purchasing of New energy.
The debate is not so much about when or if the Hydrogen economy will materialize, as it is about what can we do today related to sustainably balancing energy supply and demand, and leveraging related Economic Development opportunities in our region.
The purpose of the Prelude to the debate is to discuss a framework for the debate and develop a base of understanding of the energy source categories, the relative time frames for new or cleaner sources of energy to reach commercialization and scale, and actionable opportunities.
New Energy Roundtable speakers:
Meeting the Demand for Energy
- Dick Medvick - Hydrogen Standards Engineer, Swagelok: a framework for global energy supply and demand.
- Peter Ehlers - Alternative Fuels Market Manager, Swagelok: a global view of real new energy.
- James Halloran - Senior Energy and Utility Analyst, National City Private Client Group Investments: energy macro economics and financial markets.
Energy Conservation, Economic Development and Government Policy
- Elaine Barnes - Executive Director, Cleveland Green Building Coalition (www.clevelandgbc.org); Board of Directors, Central Ohio Clean Fuels Coalition; former Program Manager, DOE Clean Cities (alternative fuel vehicles and technology) and Ohio Department Of Development's Office of Energy Efficiency: clean fuels and conservation.
Physics, Energy and Entrepreneurship
- Cyrus Taylor, Ph.D. - Director of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program; Coordinator of Case's Science Entrepreneurship Programs, Co-Director of InTICE, the Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship; author of 60+ scientific papers, 70+ invited talks; as a physicist his work includes both theoretical and experimental high energy physics; co-spokesman of the MiniMax? collaboration (FNAL T-864) Fermilab (1993-present);co-spokesman of the FELIX collaboration at CERN (1996-present); leader in creating new programs aimed at empowering scientists as entrepreneurs; named a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for providing a new paradigm for graduate education in Physics through the creation of an innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Master's Program"; awarded the prestigious 2003 Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award "for pioneering the innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Program."
Sun, Wind and Water
- Phillip Jenkins - Physicist, Ohio Aerospace Institute member; Principal Investigator for a new dust characterization tool for use on Mars; team leader developing an electronics system to measure solar cell performance on the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-5); member international working group developing the ISO standard for measuring solar cells for space applications; coordinator for an international solar cell measurement round robin and the Conference Chairman for the 18th Space Photovoltaics Research and Technology conference; actively involved in the development and characterization of new semiconductor materials and solar cell measurement techniques; research interests include solar power for planetary missions, thermophotovoltaics, alphavoltaics, integrated micro power systems and semiconductor physics, photovoltaics and flight experiments.
- Steve Watts - Tall Towers Staff Researcher, Green Energy Ohio. GEO is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting environmentally and economically sustainable energy policies and practices in Ohio. GEO promotes renewable energy (solar, wind, biomass and low-impact hydro) statewide by acting as a clearinghouse to inform Ohioans on sustainable energy.
- David Sinclair - President, Advanced Hydro Solutions; Advanced Hydro Solutions is a full service provider of hydroelectric turbines, engineering design, project development services and rehabilitation services to the hydroelectric industry in North America. Business includes sales of hydroelectric equipment and services, project development for turnkey “water-to-wire” projects, and consulting. The project development business segment seeks to develop, or redevelop, suitable existing dams in North America that can be converted to electrical generation, or upgraded, in a cost effective and financially attractive manner.
Biofuels and the Carbohydrate Bridge to the New Energy Economy
- Tom Szilagyi Sr. - Biodiesel Marketer, Sunrise Agricultural Cooperative, Inc.,a farmer owned agricultural supply cooperative; petroleum industry, soy methyl ester (soy bio-diesel) and ethanol blended fuels; Energy Division which includes Petroleum and Propane fuels.
- Phil Lane - Owner, Analog Motors LLC: So What's the Problem? Drivers of demand for new energy (externalities, trade deficit and health) and how biofuels are deployable now.
Moderator: Herb Crowther, TransTech
To learn more about previous TransTech Tuesday forums visit:
* “Vehicle Technology: Northeast Ohio’s Economic Development Engine"
http://www.smartmeetingdesign.com/rei/index.php/Main/SeptembeR?action=editSeptembeR
* "Supply Chain & Logistics Technology: Drivers of Economic Development"
http://www.smartmeetingdesign.com/rei/index.php/Main/OctobeR19OctobeR19
Learning Links:
www.sunrisecoop.com
www.sunrisepropane.com
www.biodiesel.org
www.soygrowers.com
www.soyohio.org
www.ethanol.org
www.ncga.com
www.eere.energy.gov/biomass
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