“Our Energy World – Building the Solutions”

Plan now to join us for an informative day as RMAEE explores “Our Energy World – Building the Solutions.” Participants will receive 6 Continuing Education Hours. Lunch and continental breakfast are included with paid admission of $60 for RMAEE members or AEE members and $80 for non-members. This price ends at midnight October 16.  At the door registrations - the prices increase $10 each.  Students with Valid ID will be admitted for no cost.

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Please note that Former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has agreed to be our afternoon keynote speaker.

7:30 to 8:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration 

Former Colorado Governor (and head of the CSU Policy Center for the New Energy Economy) Bill Ritter will speak about the future of the clean-energy economy in Colorado and how the Colorado model is being used to develop clean-energy jobs in other States. 

Chuck Kutscher, NREL, “Global Warming”. Chuck will discuss Global Warming and look at evidence around the world that it is happening. He offers an argument by argument presentation to refute skeptics of global warming. 

Mark Mahoney, Director of Army Regional Environmental and Energy Office, “Net Zero Effort for Military Bases”. Mark will discuss the Army’s Net Zero Energy programs with a specific focus on their efforts at Ft. Carson.

Adam Jackaway and Ellen Franconi, Rocky Mountain Institute, “Promoting Investor Confidence through Risk-Based Building Energy Modeling”. Adam and Ellen will lead a discussion on existing building retrofits being a gateway for energy investment opportunities and climate stabilization. RMI will share their deep retrofit methodology to provide practitioners with an effective implementation approach. Considerations for engaging investors by better meeting their informational needs will be addressed – specifically as it relates to energy modeling services. 

Mary Horsey, Esource, Technology Assessments. Mary will discuss various emerging technologies including LED/Induction Lighting and RTUs (with VFD and FDD), and expand on what is new and exciting in the energy industry.

Don Catbagon/Dan Sachse, Xcel Energy, “Clean Air Clean Jobs”. This presentation will cover the closing of the Cherokee 1 and 3 plants, the Arapahoe plant, and the Valmont plant along with 34 miles of 24” high pressure gas lines. The presentation will also cover additional pollution control at Pawnee and Hayden and “what do all the changes in the Denver mean for your rates and emissions in the metro area?”. 

Panel discussion on Measurement & Verification (M&V) 

This will be a panel discussion of various M&V topics. John Canfield, Trident Energy, and Russ Chitwood, Nexant, will provide the perspective of the consultants to the GEO (now CEO) as independent 3^rd-party verifiers and contract consultants; Curtis Cole, formerly with Arapahoe County, and Tom Ochtera, City of Westminster, will provide the owners’ perspectives; Robert Welch, Energy-Crafters, will provide the ESCO perspective. Other CEO representatives have also been invited to participate in the panel. 

Topics for the panel discussion are:

• Value of M&V
• How M&V works in the real world
• Lack of M&V being done
• Engineering calculations
• Areas where there has been trouble
• Self-Policing of ECM analysis
• Should the M&V be done by ESCOs
• How contracts are written
• Case study examples