Friday 12/14/07   --  On-site Registration Begins at 8:00  --  Pre-registration recommended

Invocation, Meeting Purpose & Goals

Subject

Biographic Information

Invocation

Ted Howard

Paiute-Shoshone Tribes, whose duties include Cultural Resources Director

Meeting Purpose & Goals

Joe Weatherby

Chairman, Owyhee County Energy Task Force, Farmer, Systems Analyst, Software Developer and Consultant

Bob Ford

Senator Mike Crapo's office, whose duties include State Director for Business, Economic and Rural Development.

Nuclear Power

AEHI Bruneau Project

Don Gillespie

Alternative Energy Holdings, Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia, CEO

INEL Nuclear In Idaho

Dr. Ralph G. Bennett, PhD.

INEEL, whose duties include Director Advanced Nuclear Energy Directorate

Nuclear Power Issues

Dr. Arjun Makhijani PhD.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, whose duties include, President and Senior Engineer

Questions and Answers

10:40-10:50

Break 

Funding

Economic Funding Potential

TBD

TBD

Questions and Answers

Energy Conservation

Idaho Power Conservation Programs

Pete Pengilly

Idaho Power Co., whose duties include Customer Research and Analysis Leader

Farm Perspective Energy Conservation

Dan Landa

Landa Farms, Homedale Idaho, his duties include , Farm manager and conservation project manager

Ground Source Heat Pumps

Jeff Burns

Renewable Energy Resources, his duties include, Director of Business Development, Boise, ID

Questions and Answers

12:15-1:15

Lunch 

Legislative Energy Issues

Senator Kate Kelly

Senator Kate Kelly is in her second term in the Idaho Legislature where she represents District 18 covering south Boise.  As Minority Caucus Chair and a member of the Legislative Council, she is the third ranking Democrat in the Idaho Senate.  Senator Kelly sits on the Senate Health and Welfare, Judiciary and Rules, and Agricultural Affairs Committees, and on the Legislature's Interim Energy Committee in which role she was an active participant in the development of the Idaho Energy Plan.  When she is not performing her legislative duties, Senator Kelly maintains a law practice and tries to keep track of her three teenage sons.

Wind power in Owyhee County

Owyhee Wind Potential

Gerald Fleishman, PE, MBA

Wind and geothermal energy development engineer for the Idaho Office of Energy Resources.  He holds a BS. degree in mechanical engineering from Notre Dame, and an MBA from Northwest Nazarene.  Gerald has been key in getting wind energy development started in Idaho.

Wind Farm Development, County Revenue Impact

Rich Rayhill

Ridgeline Energy, LLC vice president, and he was recently appointed to wind turbine guidelines advisory committee by Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne

Project Development

John Steiner

Idaho Wind Farms, Oreana, ID, his duties include project development and management.

Community Energy Projects

Brian Jackson, PE MBA CEM

President, Renaissance Engineering & Design, Oasis, Idaho

Questions and Answers

3:05 - 3:15

Break 

Power Transmission Projects

Power Transmission

Jack Peterson

BLM, Western Field Project Manager

Questions and Answers

Rangeland Junipers as a source of bio-mass

Bio-mass coordinator, Woody Biomass Utilization
Partnership, part of SAGE community resources, Idaho Department of Commerce

Jack Peterson

BLM, Western Field Project Manager

Questions and Answers

Saturday 12/1/07   --  On-site Registration Begins at 8:00  --  Pre-registration recommended

Subject

Biographic Information

Meeting Purpose & Goals

Joe Weatherby

Chairman, Owyhee County Energy Task Force, Farmer, Systems Analyst, Software Developer and Consultant

Geothermal in Owyhee County

Geothermal Resources In Owyhee County

Dr. Roy Mink, PhD.

Geothermal consultant, Director, U.S. Geothermal, Former Program Director for the Geothermal Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy and Owyhee County Rancher

Geothermal Power in Owyhee County

Dr. Carl Austin, PhD.

Idatherm, General Partner, his duties include Exploration Manager and Senior Engineer

Direct Use Geothermal, Green Houses

Garnette Monnie

Edwards Greenhouses, Boise, Idaho, Greenhouse Owner/manager

Innovative Uses Geothermal

Ken Neeley

Idaho Department of Water Resources, Co-Author, "Geothermal Resources In Idaho

TBD

TBD

Questions and Answers

10:20-1:30

Break

Bio-fuels

Bio-Fuels

John Crockett

Idaho Energy Department specializing in Bio-Fuels, and Bio-mass

Bio-Fuels, Algae & Geothermal

Eugene Rhoads

Desert Hot springs, Nursery, Chief Operations Director

Opposition to Bio-Fuels

TBD

Questions and Answers

Anaerobic Digestion

Anaerobic Digestion

John Crockett

Idaho Energy Department, specializing in Bio-Fuels, Bio-mass

Natural Gas & Anaerobic Digestion

Winston Inouye

Consultant, Vector Management, LLC Pipeline Natural Gas From Anaerobic Digestion

TBD

TBD

Questions and Answers

2:20-2:30

Break 

Solar Power

Solar

John Weber

Treasure Valley businessman and energy enthusiast who designed and had built a passive solar heated/cooled home that is equipped with solar hot water and electric generation.

Solar

Jeff Burns

Renewable Energy Resources, his duties include, Director of Business Development, Boise, ID

Questions and Answers