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Alternative Energy & Green Development:

Economic Realities for Maryland

AGENDA

To download available presentations, please click on the presentation name. The following presentations are available for download: Economic Outlook, Costs and Benefits of Alternative Energy, Green Development, and Economy and Energy in Oldenburg Germany.

8:00 am
Breakfast and Networking

  • Conference Registration

8:30 am
Welcoming Remarks

  • Lonnie Robbins, Chief Administrative Officer, Howard County Government
  • Dyan Brasington, Associate Vice President, Towson University

8:45 am
Energy and Environment in the News

  • Jeff Salkin, Maryland Public Television

9:00 am
Economic Outlook

  • Daraius Irani, PhD, Associate Director, Economic and Workforce Development Director of Applied Economics, RESI, Towson University
  • Q/A moderated by J. Thomas Sadowski, Executive Vice President, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore

9:50 am
Costs and Benefits of Alternative Energy

Moderated by David W. Cronin, Assistant Director, Renewable Energy Programs, Maryland Energy Administration (MEA)

  • Wind Energy – David Friend, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, US Wind Force, LLC.
  • Solar Energy – Richard Chandler, Commercial Development Manager, BP Solar
  • Renewable Energy – Geri Nicholson, Principal, Sage Energy Consulting
  • Case Study - Joshua Feldmark, Executive Director, Howard County Commission on Environment and Sustainability

10:50 am
Break


11:00 am
Green Development
Moderated by Monica Robertson, Senior Associate, Hord/Coplan/Macht

  • David Pratt, Baltimore Regional Chapter of the US Green Building Council
  • Francis X. Smyth, CEO, Century Engineering
  • Terry Neimeyer, CEO, KCI Technologies
  • Karen Evans, Project Manager, Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

12:00 pm
The Economic Realities of Alternative Energy and Green Development

Moderated by Dave Beck, Senior VP, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  • Daraius Irani, PhD, Towson University
  • Jeff Michael, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, Towson University

12:30 pm
Lunch

1:15 pm
Economy and Energy in Oldenburg Germany

  • Jobst Seeber, PhD, Oldenburg University

1:30 pm
Keynote Speaker

  • Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland

2:00 pm
Q/A

2:20 pm
Door Prizes

2:30 pm
Adjourn

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