Events - February 20, 2013
Upcoming events sponsored by NREL, industry partners and universities are listed below. If you have a question about an event, contact the person listed for the specific event. If no contact is listed, or if you have a more general question about the events page, send your comments to Sarah Barba.
NRECA TechAdvantage Conference 
February 18 - 21, 2013
- New Orleans , LA
The annual TechAdvantage Conference & Expo presents the latest technologies available to electric cooperative engineers, information technology staff, and supply chain and member service professionals. The U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program also recognizes the Wind Cooperative of the Year.
AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit - Northwest
February 19 - 20, 2013
- Portland , OR
- Contact: American Wind Energy Association 202-383-2512
Costs of Integrating Renewable Energy into the Electric Grid
February 20, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30 MST
- Webinar
- Contact:
Join NREL for a webinar examining the practices and issues associated with assessing the costs of integrating renewable energy into the electric grid. Our panelists will explore the challenges of calculating integration costs and explain how other types of generators also impose costs to the system. They will examine the relative magnitude of costs assessed by utilities and grid operators based on a survey of Western utilities and address the implications of the recent FERC ruling on variable generation.
Speakers include:
- Kevin Porter, senior associate, Exeter Associates
- Aaron Bloom, project manager, NREL
- Michael Milligan, principal scientist, NREL
