California's AB32: Global Warming Solutions Act
National Implications
Speaker: Eron Bloomgarden, President of Environmental Markets, Equator LLC
Date: September 23rd
Meeting Location: Tonic Restaurant (Upstairs) 727 7th Ave (bw 48 & 49th st)
Meeting Time: Gather from 12.00. Lunch at 12.30. Conclude 1.45pm
Price: Members $25, Non-Members $30. ($5 premium for walk-ins)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Innovations in Energy October 21st
UPCOMING LUNCHES
October 28th - Lunch
November 18th - Lunch
December 16th - Lunch
January 27th - Lunch
February 24th- "A Practical Look at Shale Gas" Kyle Mork, VP of Eastern Operations, Energy Corporation of America.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
June Lunch: Joseph Oates, Vice President of Energy Management, Con Edison, and James Van Nostrand, Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate Center, discussed the economic, reliability, and environmental issues surrounding the Indian Point nuclear plant. View Joseph and James' presentation here.
May Lunch: Chris Ashley of EnerNOC discussed building on demand response and capturing value in energy efficiency. View Chris's presentation here.
April Lunch: David Neal, Director, New York Asset Management, NRG, and KC Sahl of Bluewater Wind spoke on both the Astoria Repowering Project and Bluewater Wind’s development plans. View their presentations here and here.
March Lunch: Dr. Barbara Kates-Garnick spoke on the future of rate-based regulation. View Dr. Kates-Garnick's presentation here.
February Lunch: David Bomke from the New York Energy Consumers Council spoke on energy challenges from a customer's perspective.
January Lunch: Professor Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University spoke on the topic of Carbon Sequestration economics and technology to 65 attendees. View Prof. Lackner's presentation here.
2009
December Lunch: Tom Congdon, Deputy Secretary for Energy in Governor Paterson’s office and Chair of the New York State Energy Planning Board spoke on the recently released New York State Energy Plan. Our biggest event to date with 71 attendees.
November Lunch: James Lyons of Novus Energy Partners on the new battle between petroleum and electric for Transport Supremacy.
October Lunch: Rebecca Craft, Director, Energy Efficiency at Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc. shared her thoughts on managing power in an age of change in a demanding city.
September Lunch: Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director for NRDC, spoke about the Waxman-Markey Bill. He addressed a variety of issues on the topic including likelihood of the bill passing into law, the impact on energy prices, permit allocation challenges, impact on competitiveness, compliance cost estimates, and relation with other international cap and trade schemes.
August Lunch: Adam E. Sieminski, Chief Energy Economist for Deutsche Bank, spoke about the bulls and bears of natural gas prices, the outlook for production, import, and storage, fuel switching and the ‘coal floor’, power generation as a driver of demand, and the impact of carbon on prices and the cost of new plants. View Adam's presentation here.
July Lunch: Daniel Einbund, VP and co-founder of the New York Nuclear Corporation gave a candid view of the nuclear industry, its history, and future challenges. The luncheon was memorable for the substantial audience participation with Daniel responding to a variety of well informed questions ranging from the security of the US uranium supply to the need for government financial support to underwrite new nuclear plant investment.
June Lunch: Jonathan Schrag, Executive Director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) discussed the success and challenges facing RGGI. RGGI is the first mandatory, market-based effort in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states will cap and then reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector 10% by 2018.
May Lunch: On May 28th, Liam Baker (US PowerGen) and Carlos Villaba (Con Edison) presented on electric capacity markets. Part tutorial, part analysis of the recent proposal for a forward capacity market in New York State, Carlos and Liam, gave their perspectives on an issue which their professional positions requires that they often take opposite sides.
April Lunch: On April 23rd, Mark Brownstein (Environmental Defense Fund) gave an excellent analysis of the potential paths for Federal Climate and Energy Policy. This included the need for action, as well as political and practical challenges of passing and implementing policy.
March Lunch: On March 26th, 2009, Jim Gallagher, SVP for Energy Policy, New York City Economic Development Corporation spoke about the Electric Supply and Demand Challenges Facing New York City. 40 people attended this first lunch and we received great positive feedback on the event and Mr. Gallagher's presentation.
