EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
The Total Energy USA management team is hard at work developing a conference program focused on cutting edge and cross cutting issues and technological changes that attracts all energy interests. Here’s a sneak peek at a working agenda. Check back periodically for updates and finalized content information.
Fossil Fuels
- Coal
- The future of coal as a national resource – cheap, abundant, dirty?
- Movements to ban new and existing coal plans
- Carbon capture and sequestration – Pilot projects and technological feasibility
- Co-firing – meeting RPS standards
- Oil
- Off-shore oil development – the implications of Deepwater Horizon
- Beyond peak oil? Impact of reaching peak production
- Shale oil extraction
- Trends in key markets
- Transportation
- Heating
- Natural Gas
- Requirements and issues in serving new and growing markets
- The resource of choice for electric generation
- Hydraulic fracturing “Fracking” – Solutions to minimize environmental impacts
- LNG – an alternative to conventional transportation?
Nuclear Energy
- The impact of Fukushima on the nuclear renaissance in the U.S.
- Phase–outs of nuclear energy – Case Studies on Germany and Switzerland
- Technology advancement – smaller, safer, secure?
- Nuclear materials storage – what to do with nuclear waste – latest developments
Renewable Energy
- Wind
- Offshore wind – Ready for take-off?
- Multi-MW Wind farms – managing the grid impact
- Micro-wind – latest developments
- Cost trends – reaching cost parity
- Solar
- Concentrated Solar Power – Updates from the hot spots
- PV – Increasing efficiency and decreasing cost
- Thermal – Big bang for your buck
- Biomass
- The baseload renewable – obstacles to market growth
- Biogas
- Opportunities for farmers – Ag residues and manure
- Wastewater & CHHP (tri-generation)
- Landfills
- Gasification
- Biofuels
- Dedicated Energy Crops
- Pyrolysis
- Algae
- Electric energy
- Electric-only – cheap renewable vs. sustainability
- CHP
- Thermal energy
- Pellets, Chips and Cordwood
- Automatic systems – overcoming
- Sustainability of biomass and carbon neutrality
- Geothermal
- Demonstration project updates
- Countering seismic disturbances
- Hydropower
- Small Hydro
- Large hydro – Three Gorges Dam – an analysis
- Marine energy
- Ocean Thermal
- Tidal
- Wave Energy
Crosscutting Markets and Issues
Energy delivery
- Electric utilities
- Greening the grid
- Transmission
- Smart grid or smarter grid
- New developments
- Example Projects
- Communication lessons to be learned
- Energy storage
- Grid management
- Integration of renewables
- Distributed generation
- Natural gas utilities
- Role of renewable/synthetic NG
- Hydrogen
- Transportation
- Energy Storage
- Waste Heat Utilization
Sustainable Transportation
- Creating a smart urban transportation networks
- Moving past gasoline
- Biofuels
- LNG
- BEV
- PHEV
- FCEV
- High-speed rails
- Stop spewing carbon – Shipping industry goes green
- Options for greening air travel
- Algae fuels
- Second generation biofuels
Energy and water
Land use change and farming
Markets driven by energy users and municipal governments
- Manufacturing
- Energy efficiency
- Combined heat and power
- District energy
Energy Policy
- 2012 IPCC Assessment Report – Implications for Energy Policy
- Policies impacting today’s decision makers
- Long term policy framework – Creating certainty
- Federal energy policy gridlock – Movement in the 113th Congress?
- Driving state policies towards sustainability – Reducing environmental impacts, imports and creating jobs
- Removing regulatory barriers for new energy deployment
Investment and Finance
- Energy Projects – Assessing investment risk and returns
- Investment climate in a carbon constraint or high energy price economy
- Government investment in R&D – Reporting on ARPA-E
For more information on the education program or for speaking opportunities, contact Total Energy USA’s chief content officer, Patrick Serfass at pserfass@ttcorp.com.
