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Power Day 2: Friday, February 13, 2009
7:30 - 8:50 AM

STRATEGY BREAKFASTS

The Balance Between Government and Market Around the World

  • Sylvain Cognet, Associate Director, CERA
  • Christopher J. Hansen, Associate Director, CERA
  • Sergej Mahnovski, Director, CERA
  • Xizhou Zhou, Associate, CERA
  • Marie N. Fagan, Senior Director, CERA
  • Sophie Aldebert, Director, CERA (Chair)

Advances in Carbon Capture and Storage

Sponsored by Alstom

  • Jean-Michel Aubertin, Senior Vice President, Energy and Environment Systems Group EES, Alstom
  • Roger J. Goodman, Senior Consultant, CERA (Chair)

Energy Technology Pioneers: Looking Over the Horizon

Sponsored by Mintz Levin

  • Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Medical Ventures, and co-founder, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., Excel Medical Ventures, Synthetic Genomics
  • Richard Kanoff, Mintz Levin
  • Stanley Kowalski, Chief Executive Officer, FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation
  • David Marcus, Founder and Chairman, General Compression
  • Rocco Fiato, Vice President Intellectual Property, Accelergy
  • Tom Casey, Chief Executive Officer, CURRENT Group
  • Jamey Rosenfield, Co-Rounder, IHS CERA, Senior Vice President, IHS Inc., CERA (Chair)

The Energy Future of Texas

Sponsored by Hunt Power, L.P

  • Hunter Hunt, Senior Vice President, Hunt Oil Company
  • Michael L. Williams, Chairman, Railroad Commission of Texas
  • Barry T. Smitherman, Chairman, Public Utility Commission
  • Pat Wood III, Principal, Wood3 Resources
  • David W. Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer, NRG Energy, Inc.
  • Rebecca A. Klein, Chairman, Power Across Texas (Chair)
  • Lawrence J. Makovich, Vice President and Senior Advisor, CERA (Chair)
9:00 - 10:00 AM

Opening Address: The Carbon Conundrum

  • Lawrence J. Makovich, Vice President and Senior Advisor, CERA
  • Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom; President, Alstom Power, Alstom
  • James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation
  • Robert LaCount, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)
10:10 - 11:30 AM

Nuclear Power: Role in Electric Power Generation

  • David W. Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer, NRG Energy, Inc.
  • Hon. Peter B. Lyons, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • George Nash Jr., President, URS Corporation
  • Andrew Kadak, Professor of Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Jone-Lin Wang, Managing Director and Group Head, CERA (Chair)
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

INDUSTRY PLENARIES

The Renewable Energy Future: The Promise and the Peril

  • Dita Bronicki, CEO, ORMAT Technologies Inc.
  • Frank De Rosa, Chief Executive Officer, NextLight
  • Dick Williams, President, Shell Wind Energy
  • Clay Sell, President, Hunt Energy Horizons
  • Takayuki Ueda, Director General Energy and Environment Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
  • Robert LaCount, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)
  • Jamey Rosenfield, Co-Rounder, IHS CERA, Senior Vice President, IHS Inc., CERA (Chair)

Coal in a Carbon-constrained World

  • Jone-Lin Wang, Managing Director and Group Head, CERA
  • Anna Belova, Vice-CEO, Strategy and Corporate Development, SUEK
  • Howard Herzog, Head, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program, MIT
  • Steven Leer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Arch Coal, Inc.
  • Gerard McCloskey, Vice President and Global Advisor, Coal; Chairman and Founder of The McCloskey Group, CERA (Chair)
1:00 - 2:30 PM

Networking Luncheon

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