| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast
Hall AB |
| 7:30 am - 1:30 pm | Expo Open
Hall AB |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | MICROGRIDS
Room 202
Microgrid Makers: How New Systems of Intelligence are Producing More Elegant, Flexible and Connected On-Site Energy Solutions
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Tom Bryan, Editor In Chief, On-Site Energy Management - Tom Fenimore, Technology Development Manager, Duke Energy
McAlpine Microgrid: A Distribution System Based Utility Owned Microgrid - Rich Hepp, Director, Microgrid Program, Schneider Electric
Optimizing the Microgrid for Demand Side Operation - Steve Schneider, Chief Solutions Architect, Leidos Engineering
Integrating Technical, Economic and Regulatory Architectures to Yield Optimized Microgrid Solutions - Travis Simpkins, Principal, Renewable Energy Analytics
Optimal Battery Dispatching to Maximize Economic Return in Grid-Connected Microgrids
Room 208
It’s in the Way that You Use It: Cashing in on Biogas Operations by Producing Energy Products with Real Value
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Joseph Curro, Principal Engineer, CDM Smith - Steven Cox, President, GkW Energy Inc.
Simplifying Biogas-Fueled Power Generation - Eric Wilgenbusch, Sales Engineer, Unison Solutions Inc.
Converting Biogas into Energy and Vehicle Fuel - Jin-Yun Wang, Manager, Fuel Processing & Catalysts, FuelCell Energy Inc.
Biogas and Biomass to Electricity at High Efficiency with Direct FuelCell |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Refreshment Break in the Expo
Hall AB |  |
| 10:30 am - Noon | WASTEWATER
Room 208
Exploring the Increasing Role Anaerobic Digestion is Playing in Global Wastewater Treatment Assets
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Tim Portz, Executive Editor, Biomass Magazine - Mel Kurtz, President, Quasar Energy Group
There is a Solution to Algal Blooms: How Agriculture and Wastewater Can Solve the Problem Together - Gus Simmons, Director of Bioenergy, Cavanaugh & Associates, P.A.
Money to Burn? How to Capitalize on BioCNG at Your Wastewater Plant - Ed Weinberg, President, ESSRE Consulting Inc.
Beneficial Use of Nutrients for Increased Valorization of Anaerobic Digesters and Digestate
Room 202
Beyond Backup: Understanding the Multifarious Role of Energy Storage in Microgrid Applications
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Peter Ledford, Regulatory Council, North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association - Bill Sproull, Vice President, Business Development & Sales, Energy Storage Systems
Long Duration Energy Storage: All-Iron Flow Battery in a Vineyard Microgrid - Chris Larsen, Senior Sales Engineer, Dynapower Company LLC
Case Studies in Solar + Storage Microgrids - Ben Edgar, Business Development Manager, Microgrids/Distributed Generation, Black & Veatch
Choosing Your Battery’s Role in a Microgrid |
| Noon - 1:30 pm | Lunch in the Expo |  |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00pm | ECONOMIC GENERATION
Room 202
Strategies for Enhancing Revenues through Smart, Responsive Generation
(Read Panel Description)
- Pat Frazier, Vice President, Electricity Markets, US Energy Services
Revenue Optimization through Economic Dispatch in RTOs |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | INDUSTRIAL
Room 202
Leveraging On-Site Power Generation in a World with Increasing Emissions Standards
(Read Panel Description)
Moderator: Tom Bryan, Editor In Chief, On-Site Energy Management - Brent Voelker, Director, Sales, Kinsley Energy Systems
Converting Low-Quality Fuels to Heat, Power and Profit with Fuel-Flexible Turbines - Alain Castro, CEO, Ener-Core Inc.
Use of Scaled-Up Power Oxidizer-Coupled Turbines for Industrial Waste Gas CHP - Chris Ruppel, Partner, Grid Energy Services
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | GASIFICATION
Room 207
Tracing the Efforts to Drive Biomass Gasification towards Economic Feasibility and Greater Marketplace Deployment
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Anna Simet, Managing Editor, Biomass Magazine - Chris Koczaja, VP Engineering & Implementation, PHG Energy
Waste Disposal through Gasification - Abolhasan Hashemisohi, Ph.D. Candidate, North Carolina A&T State University
Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulation of Hydrodynamic of Fluidized Bed Gasifier
Room 208
Demonstrating the Potential for Biogas Feedstocks to Produce Renewable Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Vehicles
Read Panel Description
Moderators: Pete Devlin, Market Transformation Manager, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy; Greg Moreland, FCTO Contract Support, CSRA Inc. - Pete Devlin, Market Transformation Manager, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
DOE Overview of Transportation Fuel Cell Technologies and Renewable Hydrogen from Biogas - David Edwards, Sr. International Expert & Director of Technology Partnerships, Air Liquide
Renewable Hydrogen from Biogas: The Perspective from a Major Industrial Gas Producer - Pere Margalef, Director Advanced Technology Business Development, Fuel Cell Energy
Tri-Generation of Wastewater Biogas into Renewable Hydrogen, Power and Thermal Energy Using Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology - Tony Lindsay, Director of Research & Development Advanced Energy Systems, Gas Technology Institute
Demonstrating the Potential of Landfill Biogas and Wastewater Biogas as Feedstocks for Renewable Hydrogen |
| 5:00 pm | Sessions Conclude |
| 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm |  Wednesday Evening Event
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