FUPWG Meeting Agenda - Rapid City, South Dakota

October 20-21, 2010
Hosted by Montana-Dakota Utilities

Wednesday, October, 2010

8:30 am	Welcome Dennis Haider, MDU Mark Howard, Ellsworth AF Base
8:40 am	Introductions & Washington, D.C., Update National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) BioEnergy Atlas David McAndrew, Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)
9:00 am	Special Presentation Owl Feather War Bonnet Ken Haukaas, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
9:30 am	Electric Vehicle Update Amanda Sahl, FEMP
10:15 am	Networking Break
10:45 am	O&M/Commissioning Panel Moderator – Ab Ream, FEMP Ab Ream, FEMP: O&M Best Practices Guide Presentation Carl Lundstrom, Building Commissioning Association: Retro-Commissioning Insights and Best Practices Ryan Stoianowski, Commonwealth Edison: Retro-Commissioning Best Practices from Utilities Phil Welker, Executive Director PECI: Certification for Building Commissioning FEMP O&M Best Practices Guide Publication
12:15 pm	Lunch Qusi R. Al-Haj, West River Regional Director for United States Senator John Thune: America's role in shaping the Individual and the Globe
1:30 pm	Working Session Building Commission/Retro Commissioning – How to Incorporate into UESC contracts Moderator - Julia Kelley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Doug Dixon, PNNL: Redstone Arsenal Chris Gillis, PG&E: Navy & NASA Phil Consiglio, SCE
2:30 pm	Networking Break
3:00 pm	USDA Agency Update Sandy Morgan,USDA
3:30 pm	Navy Tech Evaluation Program Paul Kistler, U.S. Navy
4:15 pm	Wrap-up David McAndrew, FEMP

8:30 am	Welcome David McAndrew, FEMP
8:40 am	Project Finance Case Studies Scott Foster, Hannon Armstrong
9:20 am	MDU Solar Energy Project Case Study: Ellsworth Air Force Base Dell Peterson, Energy Manager, Ellsworth Air Force Base and Dale Skillman, Director of the Office of Technology Transfer for the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
10:00 am	Networking Break
10:20 am	BioGas Project Applications for Federal Agencies and Utilities Wolfgang Driftmeier, President of Alternate Energy Systems, Inc.
11:00 pm	Energy Encroachment Mike Aimone, Battelle
11:45 pm	Critical Mission Support Through Energy Security Development of an Army Energy Security Assessment Model Chuck Tremel, Concurrent Technologies Corp.
12:25 pm	Evaluations and Wrap-up David McAndrew, FEMP

Energy Lawyer and Contracting Officers Working Group
Moderators - Julia Kelley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Linda Koman, GSA

1:30–3:00 pm

Energy Lawyers and Contracting Officers Working Group:
General DiscussionLinda Koman, GSA

Legal Issues in Energy Projects
Margaret Simmons, Army Corps of Engineers

PPA Update
Chandra Shah, NREL