If you haven’t registered, please do so ASAP – seating for this event is limited to 85. Cost is $10 on site, with lunch provided.
To register, please send email to rare.forum@tdra.state.tx.us or call (512) 936-7878.
Event sponsors include Texas Association of Dairymen, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Stephenville and members of the Rural Alliance for Renewable Energy.
AGENDA
Renewable Energy Opportunities for Rural Texas Communities and Agriculture
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 26, 2010
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Stephenville
7 – 8 a.m. Registration
8 – 8:10 Welcome, Don Cawthon, Director, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Stephenville
8:10 to 9:30 Panel: “Renewable Energy Opportunities for Rural Texas”
Russel Smith, Executive Director, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association
Travis Brown, Renewable Energy Program Manager, Texas Dept. of Rural Affairs
Ned Meister, Director of Commodities and Regulatory Activities, Texas Farm Bureau
Judy Fort, Rural Economic Development, Texas Dept. of Agriculture
Pam Groce/Dub Taylor – State Energy Conservation Office
9:30 – 10 Biofuels Research in Texas – Bob Avant, Program Director, Texas AgriLife Research
10- 10:30 morning break
10:30 – noon Panel: “Wind Power and Transmission for Wind Power in Texas”
Scott Willis, Deputy Facility Manager, BP Wind Energy’s Silvar Star 1 project in Erath County
Jay Proctor, Lingelville Independent School District
Autry Warren, Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs, ONCOR
Noon – 1 Lunch (provided)
1 – 2:30 Panel: Digesters and Other Technologies for Converting Dairy Manure into Energy
Michael Hvisdos, Executive Vice President, Microgy, Inc.
Larry Lehr, Baylor University
Detlev Johnson, LandMark Structures
Charlie Smither, RealEnergy
2:30 to 3 Afternoon Break
3 – 3:30 Tarleton State University’s Southwest Regional Dairy Center, Barry Lambert, Texas AgriLife Research
3:30 – 4 Brent Bailey, National 25x’ 25 Alliance State Facilitator – The 25x ’25 Initiative and Agriculture’s Role in a Carbon-Regulated Future
4 – 4:30 – Danny Torres, USDA Rural Development, “Rural Energy for America Program” (federal grants and loans)
4:30 Wrap-up and Adjourn
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