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Energy from
Wood
Exploring the Issues and Impacts for North Carolina
March 13-14 , 2006
J.S. McKimmon Center
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Tentative Agenda (subject
to change)
| Monday, March 13 |
| 8:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
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POTENTIAL OF RENEWABLE
ENERGY
-Session Moderator: J.B. Jett,
Interim Dean, NCSU, College of Natural Resources
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| 9:00 |
Why renewable
energy sources? Why now?! -Alex
Hobbs, Director,
North Carolina Solar Center, NC State University |
| 9:30 |
Why woody
biomass? - Fred Mayes, Chief, Renewables Information
Team,
Energy Information Agency, Department of Energy
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| 10:00 |
Break |
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EXISTING TECHNOLOGY
FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY
-Session Moderator:
Dr. William Schlesinger, Dean, Nicholas School of the
Environment, Duke University
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| 10:30 |
Technologies to produce
energy from woody biomass. -Sue LeVan,
USFS, Wood Products Laboratory, Madison, WI
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| 11:00 |
Harvesting woody biomass. -Robert
Rummer, US Forest Service,
Forest Operations Research Unit, Auburn, AL
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| 11:30 |
Woody
biomass technology and research in the Southern Region. - Larry
Biles, Director, Southern Forest Research Partnership, Inc.,
Athens, GA |
| 12:00 |
Lunch and Keynote Address. -William
G. Ross, Secretary of the NC Department of Environment and Natural
Resources |
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UNDERSTANDING THE
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF WOODY BIOMASS
-Session Moderator:
Dr. Arthur Cooper, Professor Emeritus and former Department Head, Department
of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
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| 1:00 |
Do we have
the biomass? Can we sustain it? -Chris Hopkins, NC
DFR |
| 1:30 |
Forest level
impacts of woody biomass utilization. -Dr.
Dennis Hazel,
NCSU Cooperative Extension Forestry
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| 2:00 |
What
are the potential wildlife impacts of woody biomass utilization.
-Dr. Chris Moorman, NCSU Cooperative Extension Forestry
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| 2:30 |
Break |
| 3:00 |
Anticipating
the on-site and off-site impacts of woody biomass on
soil and water. -Sean Brogan, Water Quality
Forester, NC Division Forest Resources |
| 3:30 |
Understanding
the science of air quality, Green House Gases, and woody
biomass. -Pamela Spath, Senior Chemical Engineer,
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Golden, CO
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| 4:00 |
Response Panel:
-Utility/ Power Perspective:
Bob Goodson, COO TSE Services, N.C.
Electric Cooperatives
-Environmental Perspective:
Will McDow, Environmental Defense Fund
-Forest Industry Perspective: Carl West, Weyerhaeuser
-Non-Industrial Private
Landowner Stakeholders: Stephen Whitfield, NCWoodlands |
| 5:20 |
Poster Social and Exhibitors |
| 6:30 |
Adjourn |
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| Tuesday, March 14 |
| 7:30 |
Breakfast and Keynote
Address. -Stan Adams, State Forester, NC Division of Forest Resources |
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ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
AND POLICY FOR WOOD ENERGY
-Session Moderator:
Stan Adams, State Forester and Director, NC Division of Forest
Resources
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| 9:00 |
Impacts on
local and regional economies. -Dr. Jian Gan, Associate
Professor
Forest Science, Texas A&M University |
| 9:30 |
Success stories (Presentations):
- Wade Bennett, CEO, Craven Wood
Energy, New Bern
- Norm Etkind,
Program Director, Vermont Superintendents Association School
Energy
Management Program
- Larry Stewart, Phoenix
Consulting Group International, LLC
- Daniel Day, EPRIDA
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| 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:45 |
Climate Action Plan and
its implications for woody biomass. -Thomas
Peterson, Executive Director, Center for Climate Strategies, EESI |
| 11:15 |
State
of North Carolina Policy. -Steve Kalland, Deputy
Director of
Development and Policy of the North Carolina Solar Center AND Ivan Urlaub, Executive
Director of the NC Sustainable Energy Association |
| 11:45 |
Where
do we go from here? -Speaker to be announced |
| 12:00 |
Conference adjourns |
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| OPTIONAL AFTERNOON
FIELD TRIP |
| 12:00 |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 |
Field trip
to the Dorothea Dix campus energy facility, which has been
operational as a wood-chip using facility since 1979 and uses
about 8,500 tons of woody chips annually for peak energy demand.
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| 3:00 |
Field trip concludes |
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