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7:00 AM – 6:30 PM Registration Open
8:00 am - 8:30 am NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION
Ryan Cheney, Manager, Energy Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE)
8:30 am - 9:30 am NETWORKING BREAKFAST
9:30 am- 9:40 am WELCOME
Angie Lucas, Director, Energy Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE)
9:40 am - 10:15 am EPCE BUSINESS UPDATE
Angie Lucas, Director, Energy Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE)
Ryan Cheney, Marketing Manager, Energy Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE)
10:15 am - 10:45 am ELECTRIC VEHICLE WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM UPDATE
Jim Auld, Director, External Training Initiatives, NextEra Energy/Florida Power & Light
10:45 am - 11:15 am CAREER PATHWAYS? SOLUTIONS? TBD
Kristen Himmerick, Vice President, Solutions, CAEL
11:15 am - 11:30 am CAEL MEMBERSHIP - THE BENEFIT OF LABOR MARKET REPORTS
Jeannie McCarron, Senior Director, Member Engagement, CAEL
11:30 am - 12:00 pm ELECTRIC VEHICLE LEGISLATION UPDATE
Jim Reed, NSCL
12:15 PM- 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EXCELSIOR COLLEGE (invited)
1:45 pm- 2:15 pm BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE (invited)
2:15 pm- 2:30 pm EPCE TOOLS TO ENHANCE USING EDUCATION TO ENHANCE
EMPLOYEE RECRUITING
The Plant Management Institute prides itself on being an open forum for free-flowing conversations about the challenges facing today’s plant manager/resource manager. With the power industry needing to address numerous changes to operations, some of the topics we normally cover have taken on new meanings or directions.
Now more than ever, it’s time to reconnect with your peers to share stories of the challenges, and your solutions to these challenges that have been tried and tested.
If you are tasked with running a power plant, responsible for the resources that supply power, or are in a supervisory role, this program is geared for you. We will open the event with a top-of-mind, roundtable discussion, and as topics become evident, we will consider those that are most important to a plant’s successful operation. We will then look as a group at those challenges, discussing those that are critical for operations, and also those that may not be critical, but also can’t be ignored.
Join us for this full-day forum of open discussion, where we will share lessons learned and concerns for addressing issues arising today.
Add on Plant Management Institute during registration to get your pass to this important event today. Open to End Users only.
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College campuses, business sites, and other complexes have become proving grounds for innovative distributed energy technologies. Universities are setting sustainability goals and looking to reduce their carbon footprints by producing their own power. Local governments are looking at microgrids to ensure public safety in emergencies, upgrade existing infrastructure, and help reach their own climate goals. Our host resort, the Gaylord Rockies, has a combined heat and power set-up that provides more than 90% of the site’s electrical and thermal needs. We’ll hear from those who planned, designed, and are implementing distributing energy resources to power facilities and provide models for how institutions can realize cost savings, achieve climate goals, and ensure a supply of reliable and resilient power for their locations.
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In discussing a potential hydrogen economy, it is important to understand the usage demand from this market. This session will focus on identifying where the potential uses/demands/and markets for hydrogen will likely evolve.
· H2 as fuel for Turbines
· Fuel Cells – Transportation
· Regional Hub
o Maritime
o Chemical
· Energy Storage (based on Energy Density)
Rockets
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· This keynote presentation is geared to inform and excite the power generation industry at the prospects and opportunities that bitcoin mining can provide for the energy industry. Our speaker, Andrew Webber, brings to bear over a decade of financial expertise and experience, having worked at firms such as Goldman Sachs, Surveyor Capital, and Fortress Investment Group. Andrew and his company, Digital Power Optimization (DPO), are working to inform the energy sector of the variety of ways through which it can directly utilize bitcoin mining as a powerful tool by taking advantage of the direct link between power generation and Bitcoin.
Join us as we explore what exactly cryptocurrency mining is, how it works, and the many use cases for bitcoin mining as an energy management tool.
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