NASEO Winter Meeting 2008
February 3-5, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel,
Washington, DC
Agenda and Presentations
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Southeastern States Regional
Meeting
1:00—2:30 p.m.
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Executive Room
NASEO Board of Directors
Meeting
3:00—4:00 p.m.
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Executive Room
NASEO Strategic Discussion
Session—NASEO Board and States Only
4:00—6:00 p.m.
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Executive Room
NASEO/ASERTTI Executive
Committee Dinner (Invitation Only)
6:30 p.m.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Registration/Exhibit Area
Open
7:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m.
.............................................................. Palladian
Foyer
Continental Breakfast
7:00—8:00 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Welcoming Remarks
8:00—8:15 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Dub Taylor, NASEO Chair (TX)
Opening Address
8:15—8:45 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
David Rodgers, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, DOE Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable
Energy
MODERATOR: Dub Taylor,
Director, Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Partnering to Advance Clean
Energy Priorities
8:45—9:30 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Julie Rosenberg, Chief, State
& Local Branch, Climate Protection Partners Division, EPA
Charles D. Gray, Executive
Director, National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners
Nancy Kruger, Deputy Director, National Association of Clean Air
Agencies
MODERATOR: Larry Shirley,
Director, North Carolina State Energy Office
Securing a Clean Energy
Future—Initiative Update
9:30—10:00 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Sue Gander,
Director, Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Division, National
Governors Association—Center
for Best Practices
MODERATOR: Janet Streff,
Manager, Minnesota State Energy Office
Break
10:00—10:15 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
How States Can Transform
Energy Markets: Following the
Example of Hawaii and
Wisconsin
10:15—11:00 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Maurice Kaya, Former Chief Technology Officer, State of Hawaii
Jon Hurwitch, Executive Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer, Sentech, Inc.
Masood Akhtar,
President, CleanTech Partners
David Jenkins, Director of Commercialization & Market Development,
Wisconsin
Office of Energy Independence
MODERATOR:
Chuck
Clinton, Director of State Energy Programs, Sentech, Inc.
Residential Energy Efficiency
Financing Programs
11:00—11:45 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Mark Wolfe, Executive
Director, Energy Programs Consortium
John
Ahearn, Residential Efficiency and Affordability Program Manager,
NYSERDA
Matthew Brown, Senior
Financial Consultant, Energy Programs Consortium
MODERATOR: Tom Plant,
Director, Colorado Governor’s Energy Office (Invited)
Joint NASEO-ASERTTI Luncheon
11:45 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
............................................................. Diplomat
Ballroom
2008 National Energy
Efficiency Advocate of the Year Awards
Deborah Estes, Senate
Committee on Energy & Natural Resources
John Jimison, House Committee
on Energy & Commerce
Presented by: Jeff Genzer,
NASEO General Counsel
2007 Farm Bill Energy Title:
Outlook for Funding and Key Provisions
Dr. Eldon Boes, Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
MODERATOR: ASERTTI
Representative
CONCURRENT COMMITTEE/TASK
FORCE SESSIONS
1:00—3:00 p.m.
Energy Star Task Force
1:00—2:00 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
John Davies (KY), Chair
Home Performance with Energy
Star and Agency Updates
Caterina Hatcher, ENERGY STAR
National Manager, Public Sector, EPA
David Lee, Branch Chief,
Energy Star Residential Branch, EPA
Lani MacRae, Energy
Technology Program Specialist, DOE
Energy Production Committee
1:00—2:00 p.m.
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Congressional A/B
Tom Fuller (WY), Chair
DOE/AWEA/NREL “20% Wind
Scenario” Report
Rob Gramlich,
Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association
Committee Priorities for 2008
Energy, Environment and
Transportation Committee
2:00—3:00 p.m.
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Congressional A/B
Jim Boyd (CA), Chair
John Kerry (ME), Vice Chair
DOE’s EERE Air/Energy Work
with States
Cathy Iverson, Branch Chief,
Intergovernmental and Outreach Team, DOE Golden
Field Office
Faith Lambert, DOE Office of
Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs
Carbon Education
Jack Werner, Director, DC
Energy Office
California's Transportation
Fuels Initiatives
Jim Boyd, Commissioner,
California Energy Commission
Committee Priorities for 2008
Industrial Committee
2:00—3:00 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Jake Fey (WA), Chair
Jeff Herholdt (WV), Vice
Chair
DOE Industrial Technologies
Program Priorities: Combined Heat & Power, Regional
Application Centers, and the
“25 in 10” Initiative
Patricia Garland, DOE Industrial Technologies Program
Bill Orthwein, DOE Industrial
Technologies Program
Discussion of State and NASEO
Industrial Priorities in 2008
NASEO Congressional Outreach
Meetings
3:00—5:30 p.m.
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Capitol Hill
Meetings with Members of
Congress and Congressional Staff
NASEO Congressional Reception
6:00—7:30 p.m.
...................................... SH-902, Hart Senate Office
Building
Open to All Registrants and
Invited Guests
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Registration/Exhibit Area
Open
7:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m.
.............................................................. Palladian
Foyer
Continental Breakfast
7:00—8:00 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Keynote Address
8:00—8:45 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Stephen L. Johnson,
Administrator, EPA
MODERATOR: Dub Taylor,
Director, Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Climate Change Panel (Joint
NASEO—ASERTTI Session)
8:45—9:30 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
James Bradbury, Legislative
Assistant, Congressman Jay Inslee’s Office
MODERATOR: Susan Stratton,
Executive Director, Energy Center of Wisconsin
The FERC Role in Promoting
Renewable Energy and Distributed
Generation—New Approaches
9:30—10:15 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Jon
Wellinghoff, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
MODERATOR: Michael W. Grainey,
Director, Oregon Department of Energy
Break
10:15—10:30 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Paving the Way for
Accelerated Performance Contracting—State
Successes
10:30—11:00 a.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Eddie Riddle,
Energy Services Coalition
Linda Smith, Energy Services
Coalition
MODERATOR: John Wilson,
Advisor to Commissioner Art Rosenfeld, California Energy
Commission
CONCURRENT COMMITTEE/TASK
FORCE SESSIONS
11:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.
Buildings Committee
11:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.
........................................................... Palladian
Ballroom
John Wilson (CA), Chair
Janet Streff (MN), Vice Chair
Jim Ploger (KS), Vice Chair
Federal Tax Incentives for
Energy Efficient Buildings
Liz Martin, Climate Policy
Specialist, Natural Resources Defense Council (Invited)
International Energy
Conservation Code Update
Aleisha Khan,
Executive Director, Building Codes Assistance Project
Committee Priorities for
2008—Discussion
Energy Data and Security
Committee
11:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.
........................................................... Capitol
Ballroom
Jeff Pillon (MI), Chair
Cyrus Bhedwar (GA), Vice
Chair
Energy Data Working Group
Report
DOE Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability Program Update
Alice Lippert, DOE Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
State Energy Assurance
Planning Status and Examples
Don Milsten, State Service Program
Mark Anderson, Senior Energy
Policy Specialist, Washington CTED
Supporting Energy Emergency
Preparedness and Monitoring Energy Supply and
Demand with Reduced State and
Federal Resources—Discussion
Development of State Level
Table Top Exercise Package—Discussion
Energy Assurance
Guidelines—Discussion of Version 3
Energy Assurance State
Technical Assistance Grants Update
Other Business
Regional Lunches—Open to All
Meeting Attendees
12:00—1:00 p.m.
Regional Lunch 1
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Diplomat Ballroom
Western and Central Regions
Regional Lunch 2
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Congressional A/B
Midwest and Southeast Regions
Regional Lunch 3
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Cabinet Room
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Regions
2008 Annual Meeting—An
Invitation to Kansas
1:00—1:15 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Jim Ploger, Manager of
Climate and Energy Programs, Kansas Energy Office
Washington D.C. Update
1:15—2:00 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Jeff Genzer, NASEO General
Counsel
MODERATOR: Jim Ploger,
Manager of Climate and Energy Programs, Kansas Energy Office
Effective Communication with
State Legislators
2:00—2:30 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Tom Plant,
Director, Colorado Governor’s Energy Office
Matthew Brown, InterEnergy
Solutions, former Energy Program Director, National
Conference of State
Legislatures
MODERATOR: Vaughn Clark,
Director, Oklahoma State Energy Office
Critical Energy
Infrastructure and Energy Emergency Responses in States
2:30—3:15 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Steve Foute, City
and County of Denver & Public Technology Institute
Cherrie Black, Bureau Chief,
Critical Infrastructure Protection, New Jersey Office of
Homeland Security
Alice Lippert, DOE Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
MODERATOR: Jeff Pillon,
Michigan Public Service Commission
Adjournment
3:15—3:30 p.m.
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Palladian Ballroom
Dub Taylor, NASEO Chair (TX)
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