Issues and opportunities in the Southwest   

• Opportunities: rising energy demand, federal incentives, improved technology
• Scope, scale, and science of concentrating solar power
• Land, water, grid requirements
  

         (Mike Hightower, Sandia National Laboratory)

Federal-state-utility roles for CSP

• Federal and state renewable requirements, credits, caps, motivations, R&D funding, smart grid (Marc Spitzer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
• Utility perspective: choosing renewables for R&D and deployment  (Brad Albert, Arizona
  Public Service)
• Builder/operator perspective: reducing risk for utilities (Brian Rasmussen, Brightsource Energy)

BREAK

Water requirements vs. availability

• Demand (for various solar and cooling tower technologies); and quality
  (Craig Turchi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
• Availability in CSP-appropriate areas (Stanley Leake, U.S. Geological Survey)

Legal and regulatory aspects

• BLM’s upcoming Programmatic EIS (Linda Resseguie, U.S. Bureau of Land Management)
• Environmental permits and considerations (Johanna Wald, Natural Resources Defense Council)
• Energy Project Siting in Arizona and Nevada: Permitting and Water Rights Issues (Peter Culp, Squire Sanders)

Moderated panel discussion/summary

• Benefits and tradeoffs
• How to choose a location, how best to move forward

(Grady Gammage, Gammage & Burnham PLC, moderator; Panelists include Linda Resseguie, Johanna Wald, Peter Culp, and Dave Hutchens from Tucson Electric Power Co. )

R&D Developments in Solar Energy Production

• Wet, Dry, and Hybrid Cooling Options for the CSP Plants (Babul Patel, Nexant Inc.)
• Water for Power: Coal Versus CSP (Kristen Averyt, University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Energy Storage: The Enabler of the Use of Solar and Wind Energy (Joseph Simmons, AzRISE)
• Storing Thermal Energy to Extend Working Hours of CSP (Perry Li, University of Arizona)
• HCPV: Lowest Water and Material Use Per Unit of Energy (Roger Angel, University of Arizona)
• The Payback Period for Solar Cells (Alex Cronin, University of Arizona)

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R&D Developments in Solar Energy Production (cont'd) and Algae Biofuels

• Tapping Holographic Technologies to Make Photovoltaics More Cost-Effective (Juan Russo, Prism Solar Technologies Inc.)
• A Novel Solution for the Energy/Water Nexus: Low-Cost Water Desalination Using Waste Heat from CSP (Ned Godshall, Altela Inc.)
• The Power of Algae: Photobioreactor Strategies for Biofuel Production (Joel Cuello, University of Arizona)
• Can Algae Provide Sustainable Food, Feed, Freshwater, Fertilizer, and Fuel? (Mark Edwards, Arizona State University)
• Promise and Challenges for Algae Biofuels in the Southwest (Mike HIghtower for Ron Pate, Sandia National Laboratories)
• Integrated Energy Strategy with Beneficial CO2 Reuse (Ray Hobbs, Arizona Public Service)
• General Atomics Algae Biofuel Program (Kevin Downey, General Atomics)

Meeting ends