Renewable Energy Conference 2012
 

    Agenda Sessions
Leading Technologies is the theme of this year's conference featuring eight sessions and three keynote speeches. In addition to the conference sessions, delegates have the opportunity to visit an array of exhibit showcases situated in the conference's Market Café, a café style refreshment area. It offers delegates the opportunity to view the latest in products and services from exhibiting sponsors in a "Business to Business" networking atmosphere. For information click here.

Please note times, topics and speakers are subject to change and as speakers confirm in the coming weeks their names will be in bold.

 

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Time    Session
6:00-
8:00am		 Exhibitor Setup - Market Café
7:15 - 8:00am Registration for Delegates
7:15 - 8:30am Welcoming Refreshments - Market Café
8:30 - 8:55am
 
 
Keynote Opening Remarks
8:30 - 10:00am
Session I
 
Lower Churchill Falls - Leading Technology!
 
 
This session will explore the latest technologies employed in designing the massive Lower Churchill Falls project from subsea to onland transmission infrastructure from Labrador to New England's door step, detailed session description to follow.
 
 
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10:00 - 10:30am

Refreshment/Networking Break - Market Café  
10:30 -
11:15am

Session II

The Technology Landscape for Renewables

This session will elaborate on new technologies and how they will impact solar, geothermal, bioenergy, and wind projects in the region, detailed session description to follow.

Moderated by: Lockheed Martin Canada

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11:15 -
12:00pm

Session III

Smart Technology Trends

This session will focus on new technologies around smart grid and similar technologies that provide buildings and municipalities with efficient and effective measures to reduce energy costs and dependency, detailed session description to follow.
 
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12:00 - 1:30pm

Keynote Luncheon
1:30 - 2:30pm 

Session IV

Storage Technology- Leading the Way

The generation of renewable energy provides intermittent power to the grid and subsequent supply and cost issues to the utilities' customers. This session is devoted to the new technologies that offer producers and utilities both supply and cost stability, detailed session description to follow.


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2:30 - 3:15pm 

Session V

The Opportunity for Financing Pools

This session looks at new financing alternatives which use partnership-based frameworks capable of revolutionising the financing of energy projects infrastructure and assisting the transition from a carbon-based economy, detailed session description to follow.

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3:15 - 3:35pm
Networking & Refreshment Break - Market Café
3:35 - 4:30pm   

Session VI

Wind - Leading Technologies

Just in the past year the wind industry has seen many new technologies that may bode well for this region's project developers. This session will look at the most recent technologies and explore whether offshore wind is a viable option, detailed session description to follow.

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4:30 - 6:30pm
Conference Reception

All conference delegates are invited to an evening reception to wrap up the day. 

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Time Session
9:00 - 10:15am

Session VII 

Tidal - The Next Step
This session reviews the Bay of Fundy's world class sites from Maine to the Minas Basin. The current tidal power research and deployment of test turbines form the basis for the region’s largest long-term renewable energy source. Challenges are forefront in this multi-billion dollar frontier, so why are new players developing new partnerships to test their prototypes in the world's high tides, the Bay of Fundy?    
 
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10:15 - 
10:45am 
 Networking & Refreshment Break - Market Cafe

10:45 -
12:00pm 

Session VIII

Meeting the Challenges 
 
This workshop session will address some of today's key challenges facing renewables including transmission upgrades, federal policies on investment into green funds, and how they can shape future solar, geothermal, bioenergy, and wind projects, detailed session description to follow.       

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12:00 -
1:30pm 


Keynote Luncheon

 

           

1:30 - 
3:00pm    
 Exhibit Takedown