Clean Energy Bright Future
Renewable Energy Business Lobby Day

Richmond, VA    -    Thursday, January 20, 2011

Thank you to the almost 40 business participants and generous sponsors for making Virginia's first Renewable Energy Business Lobby Day such a success! 

See you again in 2012!  

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LEGISLATIVE FACT SHEETS

- Advancing Offshore Wind Energy in Virginia

- Advancing Solar Energy in Virginia

 

- HB 2353: A True Renewable Portfolio Standard

Means Clean Energy Jobs in Virginia

- HB 2389: Virginia Resource Authority and

Renewable Energy Financing

- HB 1598: Freeing solar energy from

community association bans

- SB 794 Externalities in Integrated Resource Plans: Counting the Hidden Costs of Electricity Generation

 

AGENDA FOR JAN. 20, 2011

8:30 AM Welcome and Briefing

on Renewable Energy Legislative Agenda
Richmond CenterStage, 600 E. Grace Street


9:30 AM Appointments with Individual Legislators
General Assembly Building (GAB)

12:00 PM Renewable Energy Press Conference
Briefing Room near House Room C, GAB

Speakers:

Bob Mitchell, CEO on Trans-Elect and

Acting CEO of Atlantic Wind Connection
Bob Matthias, Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority and Assistant City Manager, Virginia Beach
Kent Baake, CEO of Continuum Energy Solutions

Al Weed, Virginia Bio-Mass Council

1:30 PM Appointments with Individual Legislators
General Assembly Building

5:00 PM Invitation Only Reception with Legislators

Richmond CenterStage, 600 E. Grace Street

Keynote speakers:

Bob Mitchell, Atlantic Wind Connection

and Bob Bennett, U.S. Green Energy Corp.

 

For more information, contact

Eileen Levandoski

at eileen.levandoski@sierraclub.org,

757-277-8537

Renewable Energy Press Conference 2011

       

Kent Baake, Continuum Energy                 Bob Matthias, City of Virginia Beach                 Bob Mitchell, Atlantic Wind Connection       Al Weed, VA Bio-Mass Council

 

             Check out the day's press...

             -AP: Proponents of renewable energy flock to

                  Richmond to lobby legislators

            -Capital News Service: Groups Say Va. Energy

                  Projects Generate Jobs

             -First Renewable Energy Business Lobby Day

                                                                                                       Comes to Richmond

                                                                                                 -offshorewind.biz

Legislative Reception

       

Tyla Matteson, Sierra Club and Del. Sal Iaquinto          Bob Bennett, U.S. Green Energy Corp. and                      Larry Lombardi, City of Norfolk and Virginia Offshore

of Virginia Beach                                                                             Peter McChesney,  Quantum Cool                                         Wind Coalition (VOW), Steve Bruckner, Sierra Club Club                                             

    

Susan Stillman, Sierra Club, Jeff Ryan, Solar Services,        Randy Flood, Randolph J. Flood & Assoc., Eileen                Susan Stillman and Sen. Mark Herring

Mike Woodard, McGuireWoods, Ivy Main, Sierra Club      Levandoski, Sierra Club, Judy Tucker, Coastal Society    

 

    

Tyla Matteson with Ken Schall and Chris Maxwell           Trieste Lockwood, VA Interfaith Power &Light      Angie Bezik, Principal Advantage/VOW and Ken

CommonWealth Solar LLC                                                             Sierra Club Mary Rafferty and Roger Diedrich         Jurman, VA Dept. of Mines, Minerals & Energy

 

Trieste Lockwood and Terry McAuliffe

U.S. GreenTech Automotive

 

GigaWatt Sponsors

Atlantic Wind Connection

Virginia Alliance for a Better Renewable Energy System

Virginia Offshore Wind Coalition

 

MegaWatt Sponsors

Green Brilliance

Principal Advantage

SAIC

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KiloWatt Sponsors

CommonWealth Solar, LLC

Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicle Assoc.

SeaWind Renewable

Terra-Scapes Environmental

 

 
About our Reception Speakers:

Bob Mitchell—Atlantic Wind Connection

An estimated 1.9 million homes could be powered by capturing the enormous potential of offshore wind off the Mid-Atlantic coast.  And a new American super grid off the Mid-Atlantic coast would “unlock an important untapped resource, creating the foundation for a new industry and jobs for thousands of   American workers,” said Bob Mitchell, CEO of Trans-Elect, the transmission company leading the $5 billion Atlantic Wind   Connection backbone transmission project with sponsors Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation.  The super grid will extend from New Jersey to Virginia and “once in place will stimulate the development of wind farms far faster than if they would each have to solve their own transmission issues” says Mitchell.

 

Bob Bennett—U.S. Green Energy Corporation

2011 will be a big year for the nation's leading manufacturer of Building Integrated Photovoltaics products. (BIPV's).  U.S. Green Energy Corporation recently announced its move to Danville, Virginia, and its plans to invest $30 million and create 372 jobs within three years.  The company currently manufactures slate roofing material with solar modules built into the slate, and are working on similar technology for shingles. Bob Bennett, vice president of USGE, said they are also working on building solar modules into siding and windows as well.  Only one element in their solar materials is purchased overseas, as the company works with local machine shops to have custom parts and machines made, and has also worked with Danville Community College's Regional Center for Advanced Technology and Training to have modeling of products done.