Thursday, February 18
Utilities & The Grid
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Storage, Renewables, and Grid Management
9:00 – 10:15 AM
Panel: Storage, Renewables, and Grid Management
Moderator: Fred Beach, Assistant Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin
Featured Panelists:
- Genevieve Dufau, SolarCity • Click to view PDF slides
- Bill Muston, Oncor • Click to view PDF slides
- Ramkumar Krishnan, CTO, Fluidic Energy • Click to view PDF slides
- Todd Kiehn, Active Power
De-Carbonizing the Grid
10:30 – 11:45 AM
Panel: De-Carbonizing the Grid
Moderator: Ross Baldick, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides
Featured Panelists:
- Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy
- Beth Garza, Potomac Economics
- David Gee, Boston Consulting Group
- Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund
Lunch and UT Energy Poll
12:00 – 1:15 PM
Lunch and UT Energy Poll Presentation
Sheril Kirshenbaum, Director, UT Energy Poll • Click to view PDF slides
Financing Electrons
1:30 – 2:45 PM
Panel: Financing Electrons
Moderator: Dave Tuttle, UT Austin
Featured Panelists:
- Kevin Howell, Illinois Power Generating Company
- Shaila Hossain, Captra Capital LLC • Click to view PDF slides
- John Hackney, Wells Fargo
- Andy Bowman, Pioneer Green Energy LLC • Click to view PDF slides
Menace or Miracle? Rethinking Nuclear Waste
3:00 – 4:15 PM
Panel: Menace or Miracle? Rethinking Nuclear Waste
Moderator: Bob Hebner, Director, Center for Electromechanics, UT Austin
Featured Panelists:
- Charles Maguire, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
- Steven Biegalski, Director of the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides
- Monty Humble, AFCI Texas
- Jessica Lovering, Breakthrough
Evening Events
4:45 – 6:15 PM
Happy Hour/Networking including Poster Competition People’s Choice Voting
6:15 – 6:45 PM
Award Presentations for Poster and Start-up Competitions
After the panels, please join us in a Happy Hour Co-Hosted with Young Professionals in Energy (Austin Chapter) and view the outstanding energy-related posters included in our Poster Competition. You can cast your vote for the People’s Choice award. We’ll close out the night with an announcement of the winners.