Smart Energy
April 4, 2007
Pueblo Technology Alliance
Occhiato University Center, Colorado State University-Pueblo
“Smart Energy” describes an intelligent energy production and consumption system. Distributed energy production from the sun and wind, an energy grid designed to allow energy to flow to where it is needed, and design of buildings and consumer products to reduce energy consumption will combine to significantly lessen dependence on nonrenewable energy sources.
The topics in the forum are structured to move from problems to solutions and to move from thinking globally to acting locally.
Moderator: Jerry Carleo, Pueblo Technology Alliance
9 Welcome – PTA members
9:15 Keynote speaker:Carol Tombari, Manager, Stakeholder Relations, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. A description of today’s energy situation and challenges, followed by an overview of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and their potential roles in addressing those challenges.
10:15 The Smart eConomy. Why do we need Smart Energy? What are the problems and challenges? How are emerging economic and market realties changing the face of the dumb energy grid? How could the market exploit these new opportunities and encourage their development into real-world solutions? How can we change the ways we do business today and how will we need to prepare for future developments? How can Pueblo position itself in the global economy? What is the role of the energy system in the future economy?
- Karl K. Jonietz, PhD, Program Manager, Science Program Office - Alternative Energy & Infrastructure Institute for Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
- Christopher Juniper, Sustainability Team, Fort Carson Mountain Post, Colorado Springs, CO
- David Christensen, Technology Transfer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
11:45 lunch
- Keynote speaker:Mike Bowman, 25 by ’25, Wray, CO
12:45 The ePowered Community. Consumers become power producers, “Microgrids” facilitate greater localized control and experimentation, and enriched information streams and educational services are exchanged between and directly delivered to the home, office or individual person. High performance buildings reduce energy demand.
- Craig Eliot, Sustainable Building Concepts, Pueblo, CO
- Shannon Koonce, Wal-Mart, Aurora, CO
- Judy Fosdick, Chair, Green Builder Committee, Pueblo Association of Home Builders, and Board of Directors, Sustainable Buildings Industries Council. (not confirmed)
- Steve Meier, City Planning Department, City of Pueblo, Pueblo, CO
- Vickie Massam, Smart Growth Advocates, Pueblo, CO
2:15The ePod. Designing, installing, servicing, managing and using plug-and-play, distributed, interactive, intelligent technologies which can produce or consume power and communicate with other devices and systems. Speakers will describe the exciting innovations that are already happening. Smart Energy is now.
- Beth Hart, Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, Florence, CO.(not confirmed)
- Kenny Romero, Aquila
- Tim Oliver, Southeast Colorado Renewable Energy Society
- Michele Edwards, Manager of Environmental Policy Relations, Xcel Energy
- Debbie Rose, Board of Directors, San Isabel Electric Association, Pueblo West, CO
- Angela Crooks, Program, Manager, Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation, Denver, CO
4The Way Forward – Pueblo Tech Alliance members
Are you willing to change? What do you want? Are you here to do something?
PTA reinforce its role in raising awareness and serving as a clearinghouse.
Handouts for actions – for example, who do I talk to if I want to build a green building.
Vendor list.
The Vendor Exhibit will be set up for the entire day in Hearthwell Lounge.
The Pueblo Technology Alliance [PTA] is a non-profit association made up of community activists, business owners and professionals, government employees and officials and educators who are dedicated to promoting the use of technology throughout the greater Pueblo region using educational forums, materials and conferences.
Biographies of speakers
Carol Tombari is the Manager of Stakeholder Relations at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where she works on local and rural economic development. Prior to joining NREL’s Public Relations office, she served in NREL’s Technology Applications Center and directed the laboratory’s State and Local Initiatives office.
Ms. Tombari previously was self-employed as president of Mountain Energy Consultation LLC, a small Colorado firm specializing in public policy and programs related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and the environmental impacts of energy use. The firm’s practice was both domestic and international. In this capacity, Ms. Tombari led three delegations of American State Energy Officials to the People’s Republic of China, to discuss public policies that facilitate the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Ms. Tombari has specialized in energy and environmental policy and programs for more than twenty-five years. She directed the State of Texas’ energy efficiency and renewable energy programs for a decade. She worked for two Texas governors, served as an electric utility regulator, and was natural resources advisor to the lieutenant governor. Ms. Tombari was a founder of the National Association of State Energy Officials and was appointed by DOE Secretary James Watkins to chair a Congressional advisory committee on the subject of renewable energy joint ventures. She was appointed to DOE’s State Energy Advisory Board by DOE Secretary Bill Richardson. Ms. Tombari’s educational credentials include a master’s degree in public affairs and an undergraduate degree in geography.
Karl K. Jonietz has been the CEO of a technology company, the president of a college, and a consultant in strategic planning. He has selected factory and research sites, built laboratories, factories and offices in the US, France, Ireland, Belgium, and England. His academic background includes an MBA from Boston University and an MPA from Harvard.
Christopher Juniper has been a member of the Sustainability Team at Fort Carson Mountain Post since 2002. He is Vice-president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, a Colorado non-profit led by L. Hunter Lovins, where he develops tools and implements sustainability solutions for organizations and governments. His is an economist by training and economic development manager, small business developer and consultant by profession. HIs "firsts" include the first major city in the US to adopt sustainable development in its economic development strategy as Policy Manager for the City of Portland, OR (1994); first US implementation of a sustainability-integrated environmental management system (1998) and first global corporate sustainability performance life-cycle assessment (Clif Bar & Co., 2006). For the past ten years he has served Rocky Mountain Institute, The Catamount Institute and Natural Capitalism Solutions as a sustainability consultant and speaker, and served his alma mater The Colorado College as a visiting professor of ecological economics. Fort Carson is a US Army installation of more than 20,000 Soldiers and civilians that is a leader for the Department of Defense in integration of sustainability - both into its internal management systems and through partnerships around the region for training, planning, and adoption of sustainability performance and indicators. He is also a founding co-director of the Sustainability Leadership Institute, a member of the board of directors of CORE - Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy, and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group of Colorado Springs Utilities in Colorado Springs.
David Christensen has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Masters in City Planning from Harvard. After a brief stint with Exxon and the US Army, he spent 19 years with Pacific Gas and Electric in San Francisco leading its air, water and land use planning activities, and managing its R&D activities on energy efficiency. He has spent the last 13 years with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Tech Transfer Department negotiating licenses and partnerships with companies interested in NREL’s technologies and other capabilities
MichaelBowman is a Wray, CO, wheat, corn and alfalfa producer. Bowman is a director of a new Colorado-based group called the 25-by-25 Initiative. The group aims to have 25 percent of all U.S. energy produced from non-fossil fuel sources by the year 2025.
Craig Eliot has lived and worked in Pueblo since 1995. He has served on the boards of several different non-profit organizations and has spent more than 500 afternoons visiting and talking to local school children about the importance of science and education. Craig’s background is in meteorology and atmospheric science. This included the study of architectural meteorology, which emphasizes how the weather can help or hinder a buildings performance. Craig is a board member of the Southeastern Colorado Renewable Energy Society and is a strong proponent of the value and benefits of ‘smart’ construction. In 2003, he and his wife, along with Cruzco Inc., designed and built the Colorado “Built Green Home of the Year”. The home, which serves as a model for energy and money-saving green design, was selected for the award out of 6000 homes in the competition. Craig is also a founding member’s of SBC, one of the states only renewable energy and green building consulting firms.
Shannon Koonce
Judy Fosdick is President of Tierra Concrete Homes, Fowler, CO. She has completed education in Designing Low Energy Buildings with SBIC (Sustainable Buildings Industries Council) and is accredited with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council. She is a licensed building contractor in Colorado and California.Conservation and passive solar energy strategies have been long-term avocations for Judy. The opportunity to lead the construction industry in a sustainable building technique was welcomed. She is past president of the Pueblo Association of Home Builders and is chairman of the Green Builder Committee; currently she serves on the Board of Directors of SBIC. Her responsibilities within Tierra Concrete Homes include management, sales and marketing, passive solar designs, and public relations. She is presently a trainer for Designing Low Energy Buildings Using the Energy-10 computer analysis program produced by U.S. Department of Energy.
Steve Meyer, City Planning Department, City of Pueblo, Pueblo, CO
Vickie Massam
Beth Hart, of Florence, CO, is President of the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents and serves energy professionals and renewable energy users. Her company, AC Solar, Inc. offers complete energy services for remote homes - PV, wind, hot water & appliances.
Kenny Romero, Aquila
Tim Oliver, Southeast Colorado Renewable Energy Society
Michele Edwards, Manager of Environmental Policy Relations, Xcel Energy (303-294-2416)
Debbie Rose, Board of Directors, San Isabel Electric Association, Pueblo West, CO
Angela Crooks, Program, Manager, Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation, Denver, CO
Contact info for speakers:
Carol Tombari, Manager, Stakeholder Relations, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, , 303-275-3821
Karl K. Jonietz, , 505-667-1311
Christopher Juniper, , 303-554-0723
David Christensen, Technology Transfer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, , 303-275-3015
MichaelBowman, Bowman Family Farms, P.O. Box 482, Wray, CO 80758, 303-570-9277,
Craig Eliot, , 719-423-7188
Shannon Koonce
Judy Fosdick, Tierra Concrete Homes, 2306 US Highway 50, Fowler, CO 81039, (719) 263-4192
Steve Meier, City Planning Department, City of Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, , (719) 553-2252
Vickie Massam, , 565-0597, 250-0794
Beth Hart, President of the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, AC Solar, Inc.
PO Box 128, Florence, CO 81226, 800 784-3603,
Kenny Romero, Aquila
Tim Oliver, Southeast Colorado Renewable Energy Society, 2560 Oak Hills Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80919, , 719-590-1060
Michele Edwards, Manager of Environmental Policy Relations, Xcel Energy, 303-294-2416
Debbie Rose, Board of Directors, San Isabel Electric Association, Pueblo West, CO
Angela Crooks Program Manager, Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation, 303-866-2309,
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