Events - March 2012

This workshop will explore energy related issues and opportunities from both technological and ethical perspectives. The morning and afternoon topics are:

There are three track sessions.

• Recycling and Waste Reduction
• Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy
• Sustainability Planning and Implementation

The Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy track will include:

• Calculating your organization's carbon footprint
• Financing energy-efficiency projects
• 101 on energy-efficiency project implementation
• Financing home energy projects
• Renewable energy for your business and home
• Residential energy projects 101

The NREL Visitors Center will be closed on March 7, 2012 for a private event.  We will reopen on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 9 a.m.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

The 2012 Southeastern Coastal Wind Conference is a first-of-its-kind event that highlights Southeastern assets for wind energy deployment within the region. The conference is a collaborative effort involving more than 40 regional stakeholders from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Topics will include the region's supply chain, resource, and market strengths to educate decision makers about costs, benefits, and policy options for wind energy. Offshore and coastal onshore wind energy will be discussed at this conference with a concentration on offshore wind energy and economic development opportunities.

Variable renewable energy generators such as wind and solar can have output that varies over the course of the day or season and can be uncertain due to challenges in predicting the weather. The integration of variable generation into the electric grid requires additional operational flexibility.

NREL’s Lori Bird and Debbie Lew will present "Integrating Variable Renewable Generation in the Electricity Grid" as part of the Power Lunch Lecture Series. Specifically, they will answer the following questions:

• How predictable is wind and solar generation?
• What are the impacts of integrating variable generation sources on the grid?
• How much variable renewable energy generation can the grid handle?
• How can the additional variability be managed?
• What operational changes can help accommodate higher penetrations of variable generation?
• What are the costs of integrating variable renewable energy generation?
• What is the state of experience integrating high penetrations of variable renewable energy generating sources internationally?

Participants are welcome to bring a lunch to enjoy during the presentation. Call 303-384-6565 to make a reservation for this free program.

The conference is the nation's leading forum sharing ideas and strategies to build a green economy that creates good jobs and preserves America's economic and environmental security.

This seminar will provide information needed to make skilled transmission decisions, identify best areas for wind energy development, identify the leaders in transmission-building, and more. Experts from the wind energy industry, the transmission sector, utility community, and policy making world will convene to answer these questions and more—and to discuss the planning, progress, challenges, and solutions related to transmission infrastructure, wind integration, and technology.