Session Highlights

• Leveraging America's Global Competitive Advantage - Advanced Manufacturing
• Public-Private Partnerships for Financing Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Innovation
• Sustainable Energy Management Tools in Commercial and Public Buildings
• State Leadership in Zero Net Energy and High Performance Commercial Buildings
• Farming and Energy - Sustainability in America
• Enhancing Energy Systems Resiliency - From Cyber Security to Efficiency
• Energy Storage Breakthroughs
• Quantifying Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in State Implementation Plans
• Energy Innovation in the Electric Transportation Sector
• State-Federal Approach to Technology Research, Commercialization, and Deployment
• The Defense Department's New Energy Initiative
• Knox Hills - World's Largest LED Residential Retrofit Project
• China's National Energy Conservation Center Role in Promoting Energy Efficiency
• State Energy Office - Utility Partnerships on Building Energy Codes Programs
• Priorities and Update from the U.S. DOE's Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs
• Results of NASEO's Member Survey – The Who, What, and How of State Energy Offices

NASEO 2012 Annual Meeting

States Partnering with America's Leading Companies to Advance Energy and Economic Opportunities

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for NASEO's 2012 Annual Meeting on Sunday, September 9 - Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. NASEO has planned a slate of informative discussions that emphasize this year's theme of "States Partnering with America's Leading Companies to Advance Energy and Economic Opportunities." The 56 State and Territory Energy Offices and their more than 2000 staff are working with leading companies across the nation to open opportunities for the private sector to advance energy technologies expand markets.

News Articles

• NASEO Annual Meeting Keynote Address Focuses on Key Role for States in Advanced Manufacturing
• NASEO Elects New Executive Committee at Annual Meeting
• NASEO’s 26th Annual Meeting Draws 59 State Energy Officials from 40 States: Highlights Public-Private Partnerships and Economic Opportunities
• Tesla Motors Highlights State Energy Offices as Crucial Partners in Ramp-Up to Electric Vehicles
• States and DOE Enhancing Energy Systems Resiliency
• Former Google and DOE Director Explores the Convergence of Energy Policy, Technology, and Finance

Session highlights included:

• Ro Khanna, Author of "Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future," Counsel for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce on the policies needed to address manufacturing research and deployment gaps.
• Dan Reicher, Executive Director of Stanford University's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy Finance and the former Director of Google's Climate Change and Energy Initiatives
• James Chen, Director of Public Policy and Associate General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs at Tesla Motors on their new 300 mile range Tesla S all electric
• Theresa Kotanchek, Global Director Sustainable Technologies and Innovation Sourcing, The Dow Chemical Company, on advanced manufacturing
• Michael Aimone, Director of Business Enterprise Integration, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Installations and Environment, U.S. Department of Defense, on the military's new energy initiative
• Beth Calabotta, Director of Bioenergy, Monsanto Company, on farming and energy sustainability
• Philip Giudice, Chief Executive Officer, Ambri/formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, on energy storage breakthroughs
• Steven Schultz, Corporate Energy Manager, 3M, on sustainable energy management tools
• Brandi Stensos, Product Leader, GE Capital Americas, on sustaining long-term investment in EV infrastructure.
• Scott Schroeder, General Manager, Energy Services Group (ESG) by Honeywell, on utility baseline usage in public and commercial buildings.

*Dress for the meeting is Business Casual*

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