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Natural Gas Current Capabilities and Future Needs presented by Ann Chamberlain, Manager-Gas Supply for Virginia Natural Gas
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** this presentation is freely distributed on online media by client for product awareness **
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• Componentes del riesgo
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• Respuestas ante el riesgo
• Actitud hacia el riesgo vs Apetito por el riesgo
• Importancia del riesgo Residual
Presenter:
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Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/12E6XG-mlxQ
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REFiT Indicative Tariffs for solar projects;
Rules and Guidelines for RE projects to be implemented under the REFiT Policy of 2015; and
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Includes PEV best practices from various cities and states from Canada, the US and California. Also includes the results of the PEV readiness survey given to regional municipal staff.
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Howard Blackson - Placemakers, LLC
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With 20 plus years of professional urban design experience, Howard is the Director of Planning for PlaceMakers, LLC, a new economy company of seven (7) principals located across the United States and Canada. Howard has designed and managed a variety of projects both internationally and in the United States having worked in Asia, Europe and North America. He holds a Master degree in Urban Design from the University of Westminster, London, and a Bachelor degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. Howard is an Accredited Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and is a member of the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence Peer Review Committee. He is an adjunct lecturer at San Diego’s NewSchool of Architecture and Design and on the faculty of University of California San Diego Urban Studies Program.
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We will discuss some strategies for incorporating water harvesting into sustainable landscaping, using example projects to illustrate our points. We will focus on residential systems for outdoor usage but will also touch on commercial applications and non-potable indoor use.
Many building owners have the desire to upgrade their commercial
properties, but in the current state of the economy they are at a loss as to how to financial such upgrades. The presentation will also review current trends in rebates, public sector financing and private sector financing that make such upgrades possible.
Target Audience:
I think the target audience for this presentation will be building industry
professionals, developers, building owners, property managers and
commercial real estate brokers, as well as educators from real estate
development programs such as San Diego State’s.
How the people of a small town on the cross road to the silk road in Persia used micro-climate and their local materials to create energy-efficient buildings.
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- Passive solar design
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- Evaluate innovative uses of local material in their buildings
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Storm windows, insulating shades, sash replacements, awnings - The good news is that we have so many ways to improve the performance of our windows. The bad news is...there are so many ways to improve the performance of our windows! How in the world can we objectively compare them on price, thermal performance, ease of installation, ease of use, solar control, privacy, and durability?
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and BuildingGreen are working on simple and easy-to-use resources for selecting window retrofit options. With input on climate, existing window attributes, and performance priorities, anyone can cut through the difficulties of deciding how to improve the overall performance of existing windows.
Using resources from www.windowattachments.org, webinar participants will work through window attachment selection scenarios with the instructor and learn how to use these resources with their clients and on their own projects.
The new 2008 Title-24 Building Efficiency Standards became effective January 1, 2010. One of the most sweeping changes involve residential indoor and outdoor lighting requirements, particularly kitchen lighting and the new adoption of ASHRAE 62.2 indoor air quality code.
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Kitchen Lighting, Title-24
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Learn from one of the leading experts in California’s Title-24 Building Efficiency Standards (Title-24), Mark Madison, a state certified Energy Plans Examiner and Certified Energy Analyst, HERS rater, Greenpoint rater with over 25 years experience with building energy code compliance analysis, enforcement and training.
Learn why sustainable real estate has become such a popular choice for individual and institutional investors. See what's driving the market and learn how you can leverage this opportunity in your business.
This beginning level seminar is designed for non-residential building owners/managers/consultants and real estate professionals who want to track and understand their building’s energy usage using a free online tool called ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. Learn how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) benchmarking tool can guide investment priorities, identify under-performing buildings, verify energy-efficiency improvements, and how buildings can receive EPA recognition for superior energy performance. Portfolio Manager can also be used to comply with the California State law that requires disclosure of a building’s energy benchmarking score at the time of sale, lease, or refinancing.
Alice Liddell is a Senior Associate with ICF International. Ms. Liddell has twelve years of experience in energy efficiency as well as energy and environmental policy. Ms. Liddell provides support to utilities throughout the west for many EPA ENERGY STAR® programs, including lighting, commercial food service, consumer electronics, and the commercial and industrial building sector programs. In addition, Alice provides training for EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager benchmarking tool.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...
CCSE Conference Plenary Presentation
1. California Energy Commission
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Policy
California Center for Sustainable Energy 6th
Annual Conference
San Diego Convention Center
September 16, 2010
Robert B. Weisenmiller
Commissioner
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2. CA’s Energy Policy Relies on a
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California’s Energy Action Plan defined a loading order to
address the state’s increasing energy needs
1. Energy efficiency and
demand response
2. Renewable energy and
distributed generation
3. Clean fossil-fueled sources
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emissions and diversifying energy sources.
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3. California Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
Emissions
Source: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/data/graph/graph.htm
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4. Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction
Potential
• Over 13 Million Existing Homes in California
• 70% of Housing Predates Energy Standards
• Existing Homes Offer # 1 GHG Reduction
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Potential
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5. ARRA Energy Efficiency Community Block
Grant - $3 million to San Diego County
• California Comprehensive Residential Building
Retrofit Program
• Consortium of local governments, workforce
development organizations community colleges
organizations, colleges,
utilities, others will:
– Expand Home Energy Rating System (
p gy g y (HERS) into
)
second program phase (HERS II)
– Develop multi-family residential energy audit &
building simulation tools
– Train home energy auditors & retrofit contractors
– Launch pilot local financing programs
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6. Local Ordinances Exceeding 2008 Building
Energy Efficiency Savings
• City must complete: Feasibility/cost studies &
ordinance presentation/vetting to the public
• Apply to Energy Commission Approval at
Business Meeting Send to CA Buildings
Standards Commission
• Example: City of Chula Vista
– New Residential
Climate 7: 15% above 2008 Building Standards
Climate 10: 20% above 2008 Building Standards
– New Commercial
Climate 7 and 10: 20% above 2008 Building Standards
Source of Climate zone information can be found at: http://www.energy.ca.gov/maps/building_climate_zones.html
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7. AB 758 (Skinner, Statutes of 2009)
• Requires Energy Commission to develop/
implement comprehensive program to achieve
greater energy savings in California’s existing
residential and nonresidential buildings.
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• Will build off ARRA State Energy Program,
HERS II and AB 1103
– AB 1103 - Will establish operational energy rating
disclosure process between parties in a financial
transaction (lease lend or sale)
(lease,
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8. Senate Bill 1
One Million Solar Roofs in California by 2016!
SB 1 enacts Governor Schwarzenegger’s
Million Solar Roofs Initiative
SB 1 (2006) includes the CPUC’s
California Solar Initiative program, CEC’s
New Solar Homes Partnership (NSHP)(NSHP),
and the Publicly owned utilities portion.
SB 1 includes municipal utilities
that the CPUC does not
oversee.
Requires production
homebuilders of 50+ homes to
offer solar as an option for new
homes starting in 2011.
Adds energy efficiency improvements as a
condition to receiving incentive for roof-top solar
energy.
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9. New Solar Homes Partnership
The NSHP intends to create a sustainable market for solar homes and
gain builder commitment to install solar energy systems.
High-performing solar systems on highly efficient residential
construction
Target: 400 MW installed capacity by the end of 2016
Solar energy systems on 50%
of new homes by end of
program
Self-sufficient solar industry
One-time,
One-time up-front incentive
Incentives decline as megawatt
targets are reached.
Incentives decline to zero over
10 years.
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10. Energy Commission RPS Implementation
CA Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
enacted in 2002 and amended in 2006
20% of electricity resources to be renewable by year
end
Executive Order S-14-08 set 33% target by 2020
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track and verify RPS compliance
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The Commission developed a Renewables
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implement and administer its responsibilities
under RPS
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11. CEC RPS Certification
Facilities certified as RPS eligible represent
more than 10,560 MW of capacity.*
Biofuels (gas & liquid) 374 CEC ROLE
Certify renewable facilities
Biomass (solid) 769 as eligible for the RPS
Conduit Hydro 179 Design and implement an
accounting system to track and
verify RPS compliance
Geothermal 2,472
Incremental Hydro 0
MSW Combustion 22
PV 39
Small Hydro 998
Solar Thermal 453
Wind 5,254
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MEGAWATTS
*Includes only the percent of capacity certified as RPS eligible.
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12. What is the Western Renewable Energy
Generation Information System?
WREGIS tracks renewable generation to help ensure the
credibility of the "green" value of renewable electricity
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energy registry and tracking system for the CEC ROLE
Western states transmission area Certify renewable facilities as
eligible for the RPS
– Uses verifiable renewable energy g
gy generation Design and implement an
accounting system to track
data and verify RPS compliance
– Creates renewable energy certificates
(WREGIS certificates)
– Accounts for transactions involving certificates
– Supports voluntary and regulatory markets for
certificates
WREGIS was launched in June 2007
Retail sellers and renewable facilities participating in California’s RPS
are required to register with and use WREGIS. Publicly owned utilities
(POUs) can opt to use WREGIS to track their RPS energy.
RESULTS as of June 2010:
More than 335 companies and over 1,400 generators are
approved to be WREGIS Account Holders. 12
14. Seven Active Solar Thermal Projects Seeking ARRA
funding currently in the CEC Siting/Permitting Process
• Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (370 MW) – 9/22/10
CEC decision
• Imperial Valley Solar Project (709 MW) – 9/29/10
• Genesis Solar Energy Project (250 MW) – 9/29/10
• Calico Solar Project (850 MW) – November/December 2010
• Palen Solar Power Project (484 MW)– December 2010
• Rice Solar Energy Project (150 MW) - December 2010
• Beacon Solar Energy Project (250 MW) – APPROVED 8/25/10
• Abengoa Mojave Solar (250 MW) – APPROVED 9/8/10
• Blythe Solar P
Bl th S l Power Project (1000 MW) – APPROVED 9/15/10
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• Ridgecrest Solar Power Project (250 MW) – delayed for biological resource studies
15. General Challenges for Permitting ARRA
Solar Projects
• Solar projects require about 75 percent more
resources than natural gas fired projects!
gas-fired
• Most projects located in areas inhabited by rare
and endangered animal and plant species;
requires extensive analysis to determine impacts
and appropriate mitigation
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• Projects are typically located in arid regions with
limited access to water requiring complex
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analyses to determine impacts and necessary
mitigation, including relocation
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16. General Challenges for Permitting ARRA
Solar Projects (Cont.)
• Projects cover such large areas they have a
significant impact on surface drainage which
necessitates extensive hydrological analyses to
ensure erosion potential is minimized
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• The large size of the projects and their location
on typically undisturbed lands often results in
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impacts to a wide array of cultural resources,
particularly Native American resources of great
antiquity,
antiquity which requires extensive analysis to
ensure compliance with federal and state laws
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18. Questions/ Comments
Thank you very much!!
Contact Information:
Robert B. Weisenmiller
Commissioner
(
(916) 654-4001
)
rweisenm@energy.state.ca.us
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