Conference: IAWIND and IWEA

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 07 Apr 2010 from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Location:	Scheman Building
Cost:	$25-$250
URL:	http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/iawind/home.html
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-6222
Channel:	College of Engineering
Categories:	Lectures
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The IWEA Conference will focus on a broad array of issues starting with National, then State perspectives including legislative developments, individual sessions on Small & Community Wind, Independent Wind Development and Large Integrated Wind Development. Additional topics relating to Laws, Transmission, Financing, Safety and New Market Realities will round out the day.

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Agenda
7:30 - 8:30 a.m., Registration, Networking & Visit Exhibits

9 - 9:15 a.m., Welcome
IWEA President, Dr. Harold Prior

9:15 - 10 a.m., Federal Legislative Developments
Facilitator Randy Van Dyke, General Manager Clay Regional Water
Congressman Tom Latham
Congressman Bruce Braley

10 - 10:45 a.m., Iowa Legislative Developments
Facilitator Randy Van Dyke, General Manager Clay Regional Water
Jim Obradovich, IWEA Legislative Representative
State Legislators

10:45 - 11 a.m., Break

11 - 11:45 a.m., Parallel Breakout Sessions I
Small Wind Development
Facilitator IWEA President Dr. Harold Prior
Al Zeitz, Dir North American Marketing, DeWind Corp.
Bill Haman, Program Mgr, Iowa Energy Center

Independent Wind Developer
Facilitator ISU Prof. James McCalley
John Wilhelm, Ntl Marketing Mgr, John Deere Renewable Energy
Anne Kimber, Sr Engineer, IAMU, IAMWind Project

Large Integrated Wind Developer
Facilitator Michael Moore, Land, Permitting & Transmission Dev., Pattern Energy Group
Tony Yonnone, Project Manager, Horizon Wind Energy
Dean Crist, Mid American Energy

Noon - 1 p.m., Lunch, Keynote Speaker

1:15 - 2 p.m., Transition of Transmission
Facilitator Beth Soholt, Dir. Wind on the Wires
Daniel Barr, Senior Engineer, ITC Midwest
Clair Moeller, VP Transmission Asset Management, MISO

2:15 - 2:30 p.m., Break

2:30 - 3:15 p.m., Parallel Breakout Sessions II
Wind & The Law
Facilitator Kathleen Law, Attorney at Law, Neymaster, Goode
Philip E. Stoffregen, Attorney at Law, Brown/Winick

Financing: DOE, Loan Guarantees, Grants, Tax Credits vs Tax Equity
Facilitator (Board Member)
Joseph O'Hern, Executive Director, Iowa Finance Authority

New Market Realities
Facilitator Rob Hach, Anemometry Specialists
Wind Energy Resource Development, Alliant Energy
John Dunlop, Sr. Project Engineer, American Wind Energy Assoc.

3:30 - 4 p.m., Safety in High Places
Facilitator (Board Member)
Mike Kelley, Environmental Health & Safety Manager, Upwind Solutions

4 p.m., Adjournment
IWEA President, Dr. Harold Prior