Thursday, February 18
Utilities & The Grid
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9:00 – 10:15 |
Panel: Storage, Renewables, and Grid Management 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 Fred Beach, Assistant Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin (Moderator) |
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10:30 – 11:45 |
Panel: De-Carbonizing the Grid Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy Beth Garza, Potomac Economics David Gee, Boston Consulting Group Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund Ross Baldick, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin (Moderator) • Click to view PDF slides |
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12:00 – 1:15 |
Lunch and UT Energy Poll Presentation: Sheril Kirshenbaum, Director, UT Energy Poll • Click to view PDF slides |
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1:30 – 2:45 |
Panel: Financing Electrons 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 Dave Tuttle, UT Austin (Moderator) |
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3:00 – 4:15 |
Panel: Menace or Miracle? Rethinking Nuclear Waste 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 Bob Hebner, Director, Center for Electromechanics, UT Austin (Moderator) |
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4:45 – 6:15 |
Happy Hour/Networking including Poster Competition People’s Choice Voting |
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6:15 – 6:45 |
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. |