Wind Energy Offshore the Emerging Regulatory Environment

EBC Wind Energy Seminar:

The Emerging Regulatory Environment for Offshore Wind Energy

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center
Bay Colony Corporate Center
1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, North Entrance
Waltham, Massachusetts

AGENDA

7:30 a.m.Registration and Networking

8:00 a.m.Welcome – Daniel K. Moon, President EBC

Fara Courtney, Good Harbor Consulting

Moderator - Stephen Barrett, Chair, EBC Wind Energy Development Committee

8:15 a.m.Federal Waters Panel

• Federal Offshore Alternative Energy Program

Maureen Bornholdt, Minerals Management Service

Offshore Alt. Energy Program

• Cape Wind Project – The FEIS and Status of State Approvals

Mark Rodgers, Communications Director, Cape Wind

• Permitting Under the MMS Interim Policy - Experience from the Mid-Atlantic

Doug Pfeister, Regulatory Manager, Bluewater Wind

• Federal Policy Roundtable Discussion w/Attendees

9:45 a.m.Networking Break

10:00 a.m.State Programs Panel

• Mass Oceans Plan – Status of the Massachusetts Offshore Program

Deerin Babb-Brott, Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Mass CZM

• RI Ocean SAMP (Special Area Management Plan)

Grover Fugate, Exec. Director, RI Coastal Resources Mgmt. Council

• Joint Development Agreement to Develop Wind in Offshore RI

Chris Wissemann, CEO, Deepwater Wind

• Maine Offshore Wind – Governor Baldacci’s Ocean Energy Task Force

Don Perkins, President, Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Co-Chair Gov’s Task Force

11:20 a.m.State Policy Roundtable Discussion with Attendees

12:00 a.m.Adjourn

SPEAKERS

Maureen Bornholdt, Program Manager

Offshore Alternative Energy Programs, Minerals Management Service

US Department of the Interior

381 Elden Street MS 4090 Herndon, VA 20170

703-787-1300

The passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created new responsibilities for the Minerals Management Service (MMS), including the lead Federal agency permitting authority for alternative energy-related uses on the Outer Continental Shelf. In August 2005, Maureen Bornholdt was selected to serve as the Project Manager to develop the Alternative Energy/ Alternate Use Program for the MMS. Ms. Bornholdt has extensive experience in environmental regulation and compliance having worked offshore oil and gas issues for the Department of the Interior since 1983. Prior to her selection as Project Manager, she managed the Marine Minerals Program, a program presently focused on making available suitable sand deposits in Federal waters for wetlands protection and beach nourishment projects. Ms. Bornholdt has served as the MMS’s technical expert on Coastal Zone Management and National Environmental Policy Acts and as the program analyst covering offshore environmental and regulatory issues for the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management. She earned a B.S. degree in Public Administration from George Mason University in Virginia.

Deerin Babb-Brott, Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Zone Management

Massachusetts EEA

100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114

617-626-1207

Deerin Babb-Brott has 18 years of experience in the environmental field, with a focus on coastal management issues and environmental impact review. As Assistant Secretary in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, he is managing the development of an ocean management plan for Massachusetts waters, under the Oceans Act of 2008. Deerin previously served as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Impact Review and Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act, managing the environmental review of major development projects in the Commonwealth. Before joining MEPA, he worked in the MA Office of Coastal Zone Management, serving most recently as the Assistant Director for Planning and Coastal Development. Deerin has a BA in Government and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College; he lives with his wife and two daughters in Ipswich, MA and surfs at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester.

Fara Courtney

Good Harbor Consulting

978-281-4537

Grover Fugate, Executive Director

RI Coastal Resources Management Council

Stedman Government Center - Suite 3
4808 Tower Hill Road, Wakefield, RI 02879

401-783-3370

Grover Fugate graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1976, with a degree in Natural Resource Management. After graduation Mr. Fugate worked in Canada in a series of positions including Forester, Land Use Planner, with the Department of Agriculture, Regional Resource Planner, with the Crown Lands Branch, and Director of Shore Zone Management. In 1984, Mr. Fugate completed his MBA from Memorial with a program specialization in resource policy analysis. In 1986, Mr. Fugate moved to Rhode Island to assume the duties of the Executive Director of the Coastal Resources Management Council. The council is an independent state agency, set up to be the principle planning and management agency for the state’s coastal areas. Mr. Fugate's current duties include, the day to day administration of the Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Program for the State of Rhode Island. As part of his duties Mr. Fugate is the council’s and states representative to a number of boards, commissions, task forces, and other coastal related organizations. Mr. Fugate also holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Rhode Island and is a guest lecturer at Brown University and Roger Williams University Law School. He is also a trainer at the Coastal Resources Center for Integrated Coastal Management. He is the recipient of many citations from the Governor and the Legislature for his work in Coastal Management and Community Service and recipient of the Sea Grant Lifetime Achievement Award for Coastal Zone Management. Mr. Fugate has published articles on various issues in coastal and natural resource management.

Don Perkins, President

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

350 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine 04101

207-772-2321

Don Perkins became GMRI’s President in 1995. Don works with GMRI’s board of directors and management team to drive GMRI’s evolution as a strategic science, education, community institution serving the Gulf of Maine bioregion. Don brings an unusual mix of private sector and not-profit sector experience to GMRI. Prior to joining GMRI, he instructed at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, directed the Marine Conservation Corps in California, served as a financial advisor to Native American tribes; and managed the operations of Binax, Inc. Don has been active in the marine policy arena on multiple levels. He served on the boards of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, the Maine Department of Marine Resources Advisory Council, and the Maine Legislature’s Task Force on the Development of Aquaculture. He was co-founder of Friends of Casco Bay. He currently serves on the boards of the Maine Marine Research Coalition, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System, and Westbrook School Board. Don was born in Waterville, Maine and has lived in a variety of Maine's coastal and inland communities. Don and his wife are raising their family in Westbrook. Don holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Dartmouth College and a M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His greatest sources of pleasure are his family and an early run and dip on Crescent Beach.

Doug Pfeister, New Jersey Project Manager

Bluewater Wind

22 Hudson Place, 3rd floor, Hoboken, NJ 07030

Doug Pfeister is Bluewater Wind’s New Jersey project director and head of siting and permitting across the company. Previously, Doug worked on land-based wind projects in New York State; developed energy efficiency and energy information management systems; and managed environment, health, and safety programs at such companies as General Electric, Trigen Energy, MCEnergy, and Trieste Associates. Before entering the energy sector, Doug ran the street tree division of the New York City Parks Department, planting over 17,000 trees and hundreds of new street-side parks. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Stanford and master’s in environmental management from Yale.

Mark Rodgers, Communications Director

Cape Wind Associates

75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116

617-904-3100

Mark develops Cape Wind's printed and web communications content and he manages media and other stakeholder relations. Previously, Mark was a founder and director of HealthLink, a Salem-based citizens advocacy organization that works to reduce harmful emissions from fossil fuel power plants. Mark received a BA in Political Science from the George Washington University in 1989.

Chris Wissemann, CEO

Deepwater Wind

50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI 02903

401-274-2000

Mr. Wissemann is Chief Operating Officer of Deepwater Wind Holdings. Wissemann manages the company’s development activities, planning and strategy. Mr. Wissemann founded Winergy Power, one of Deepwater Wind’s predecessors, and was the primary architect of the deep water – beyond visual impact - strategy. Wissemann’s engineering background has been important in determining that technology could be utilized to find a more acceptable solution than shallow water foundations that force projects to be near shore. Wissemann has pursued a career in alternative and renewable energy that spanned 25 years including positions ranging from engineering to business development to chief operating officer. His career in energy has included positions at companies from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, including Turner Construction, Energy Investment, Enron, and Northern Power Systems. Mr. Wissemann’s focus has been on non-traditional power development – from solar and wind to cogeneration and Independent power production. He is conversant in technical aspects of power generation technologies as well as economics, permitting, and finance. He has particularly focused on conforming implementation and contract structures of non-traditional power projects to fit within traditional project finance standards. He has negotiated and implemented dozens of long term contracts with utilities and customers – both for power generation and efficiency-derived capacity. Mr. Wissemann earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Energy Studies from Brown University.

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