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FUPWG Meeting Agenda - Washington, DC

Power to the People / FUPWG / Washington, DC / October 23-24, 2003.

October 23-24, 2003
Holiday Inn on the Hill
Washington, DC

Wednesday, October 22, 2003


4:30 - 5:30 Steering Committee meeting in the Cabinet Room on the second floor of the Holiday Inn
5:30 - 7:00 Networking social for all attendees in the Federal North Ballroom
7:00 until... Dinner on your own

Thursday, October 23, 2003


7:30 - 8:30 am American breakfast buffet outside the Federal North Ballroom
8:00 - 8:30 Registration outside the Federal North Ballroom
8:30 - 8:50 Welcome
Paul Lynch, General Services Administration Energy Executive (8:30-8:40)
Tom Hattery, FEMP Philadelphia Regional Office Representative (8:40-8:50)
8:50 - 9:40 Washington Update
FEMP Update - Beth Shearer, Director, Federal Energy Management Program (8:50 - 9:15) (PowerPoint 815 KB)
Legislation, M&V Project Validation, and CHP/Energy Security - Brad Gustafson, Federal EnergyManagement Program (9:15 - 9:40) (PowerPoint 4.1 MB)
9:40 - 9:50 Critical Update
UESC project update - Kate McMordie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PowerPoint 125 KB)
9:50 - 10:15 Agency Update I.
VA update - Judith Sterne, Department of Veterans Affairs (PowerPoint 124 KB)
10:15 - 10:35 Break - Networking
10:30 - 11:25 Agency Update II.
DESC program update - Jake Moser, Defense Energy Support Center (10:35 - 11:00) (PowerPoint 196 KB)
GSA program update - Mark Ewing, General Services Administration (11:00 - 11:25)
11:30 - 12:00 Break for Lunch
12:00 - 1:15 Luncheon and Keynote Address
Federal South Ballroom
Mr. Jim Moore, Counsel for the Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives
1:15 - 1:30 Break - Reconvene in Meeting Room
1:20 - 2:30 Privatization Update
Captain Richard Marrs, CEC, U.S. Navy, ODUSD (PowerPoint 2.5 MB)
2:30 - 3:30 PANEL: Discussion of Financing/Refinancing
Moderator - Jim Snook, U.S. Air Force
Ed Thibodo, U.S. Navy
Bruce Gross, G.E. Capital
John Christmas, Hannon Armstrong
Facilitated Discussion of Financing Issues
3:45 - 4:15 Break - Ice cream social and networking outside the Federal North Ballroom
5:00 Meet in lobby of Holiday Inn to walk to social gathering and dinner
5:30 - 6:00 Tour the garden of the National Gallery of Art (Enter and exit from the NE gate. All other gates will be closed. The NE gate is on 7th Street at the corner of Constitution Avenue - just opposite the National Gallery's West Building.)
6:00 Social gathering and dinner at the Pavilion of the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art (Located on the National Mall between Seventh and Ninth Streets on Constitution Avenue.)

Friday, October 24, 2003


8:00 - 8:30 am American breakfast buffet outside the Federal North Ballroom
8:30 - 9:15 Case Study: GSA-National Capital Region Utility Financed Project
Steve White, General Services Administration (PowerPoint 548 KB)
9:15 - 10:15 PANEL: Emerging Technologies - Agency Program Update
Moderator - Brad Gustafson (9:15 - 9:25)
Building Technologies - Jim Rannels, DOE Building Technologies Program (9:25 - 9:45)
(PowerPoint 2.7 MB)
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Technology Program Update -Dr. Alexander Zhivov, CERL (9:45 - 10:05) (PDF 5.5 MB, 22 pp) Download Adobe Reader.
Question and Answer period (10:05 - 10:15)
10:20 - 10:45 Break - Networking
10:45 - 11:45 Natural Gas Supply and Pricing
Chris McGill, American Gas Association (PowerPoint 2.7 MB)
Question and Answer period (11:35 - 11:45)
11:45 - 12:00 Wrap Up