Clean Technology Track at InnoTech
presented by SAO's Clean Technology Alliance

2010 Clean Technology Conference

Thursday, May 6, 2010 9:00am - 4:30pm 
Portland, Oregon Convention Center
a Special Event @ InnoTech Oregon

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Over 30 leading professionals will address how high-tech can help your business run cleaner, more efficiently and more profitably. Technologies covered include remote communications, carbon tracking, and SmartGrid. Also learn about the policies and resources that are aggressively supporting this sector as well as the latest and greatest green computing technologies.

Register for the Clean Technology Conference (included with your General InnoTech registration)

Clean Technology Alliance Information at:  http://www.sao.org

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9:00am - 9:50am
State/Federal Incentives & Investments: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Gregory F. Jenner, Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP
Justin Label, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
David Van't Hof, Attorney, Lane Powell
At the federal level the 2009 stimulus bill attempted to address a virtual shutdown in the development of alternative energy projects resulting from the ongoing economic downturn.  Its results have been decidedly mixed.  We will discuss what has worked, what hasn’t and what still may.  We will also attempt to divine where Congress may go from here. At the State level the Oregon Legislature and the Oregon Department of Energy have significantly scaled back both the value and the certainty of the Business Energy Tax Credit program.  We will discuss changes to the program, how the program works (or does not work) in conjunction with federal incentives, and potential impacts of the changes to the scale of investment over the coming year.

10:00am - 10:25am
Regional Smart Grid Activity & Demonstration Project Update
Marv Serhan, C.E.M., C.S.D.P., President, Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), Columbia River Chapter
Tom Brim,  Smart Grid Program Manager, Bonneville Power Administration
The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project has been launched. This $178 Million dollar project, recently approved by the Department of Energy, extends across multiple utilities, five states, and many diverse vendor products and therefore will encounter challenges that are not evident to demonstrations that have lesser reach. This presentation will address the components of a Smart Grid, address the goals and objectives of the project, discuss features of the demonstration's design that facilitate accomplishment of the goals, and describe the contribution of each of the utilities and major vendors in the project, across a large region and between diverse stakeholders.

10:30am - 10:55am
Leveraging Commercial/Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs
Erin Hope,Energy Efficiency Engineer, Bonneville Power Administration(BPA).
The BPA Energy Efficiency program, in partnership with northwest public power utilities, offers cash incentives for qualifying energy efficient projects within data centers. For large data centers, the BPA Energy Smart Industrial (ESI) program offers on-site technical assistance to help develop the project as well as cash incentives up to 70% of the project costs.  The ESI Energy Management pilot can provide additional incentives for an in-house Energy Project Manager and for energy savings associated with improved Operations and Maintenance.  For smaller data centers, the BPA Commercial Sector program offers technical assistance for evaluating projects and cash incentives to help pay for the projects.


11:00am - 11:50am
You Haven’t Heard too Much about Green IT Yet
Corban Lester, Program Development, Lockheed Martin
Jon Haas ,Director, Eco-Technologies Programs Office, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation
Rich Bader, President and Chief Executive Officer, EasyStreet Online Services
This session includes a wide range of IT topics that explore the various ways that traditional and emerging uses of information technology are being used to address energy and environmental issues. Come hear how data centers are becoming more efficient, how supply chains are being optimized, how virtualization and cloud computing are making an impact and how the internet is being used for telecommuting and energy grid management
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2:00pm - 2:50 pm
Oregon Energy & Transportation in the Future
Policy views on energy and transportation with an emphasis on how technology will help in developing new energy efficient ideas as well as discuss rebewable energy and ways to access that using technology.


Allen Alley
Chairman of the Board
Pixelworks, Inc. &
Republican Candidate for Governor

 




3:00pm - 3:50pm
Sustainable Solutions and the Future of Utility Services
Efficiency improvements to our existing building stock represent one of the biggest opportunities to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources. In addition, electric utilities are challenged to reduce the carbon footprint of their generating plants and maximize the use of existing distribution systems. Maximizing the efficiency of our residential, commercial, and industrial buildings will require investments beyond current utility rebates. New incentives need to be created.

In the early 90s, both BPA and Puget Power (now Puget Sound Energy) created pilot programs to pay for building efficiency improvements at the value of new generation sources. Instead of viewing buildings as simple consumers of energy, facility owners are paid to "generate" energy through efficiency improvements.

In this session attendees will learn:
• What lessons were learned with the Purchase of Energy Savings programs of the 90s
• Why we are reopening conversations about this concept in light of developing Smart Grid and Smart Building technologies
• What the potential impact to building owners and occupants will be in facilities equipped with these "smart" technologies