gw solar institute symposium 2010 program

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The GW Solar Institute

2nd Annual Symposium

Challenges to Solar as a Leading Solution

to Climate Change and Energy Problems

April 19, 2010 8:00am5:00pm

Jack Morton Auditorium

805 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC

Sponsored By:


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Letter from the Director

Dear Colleagues,

Since we last met in 2009, the GW Solar Institute has grown in many ways: we have a larger network, we are working with

a broader array o interests, and, most o all, we have added Debra Jacobson as Co-Director o the Institute. Despite the

Institutes advancement, we meet here today to discuss many o the same issues acing solar energy; the solar option is real

and ready to be deployed, and our nation and world need it.

Lingering challenges to solar energy include: deployment hurdles like siting and transmission, hidden ossil uel subsidies,

nancing diculties, integrating variable electric resources into the electric grid, unavorable utility ratemaking policies, and

the development o a new inrastructure or ueling vehicles through electrication or solar-to-uel products.

This year is diferent rom last in several important ways. The political climate is more constrained by scal limits, but the will

to pursue solar energy is strong. Meanwhile, the average price o solar modules has declined substantially. As this continues,solar energy becomes an increasingly attractive option or reducing CO 2 and addressing energy needs. Perhaps the

constrained political environment will see much more targeted, even more efective, solar solutions.

Today is indeed about challenges but it is also about opportunities. We are here because we want to hear both the good and

the bad because it is the only way we can nd new solutions.

Thanks or joining us,

Ken Zweibel

Director, GW Solar Institute


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Welcome8:45 9:00 amSteven Knapp

President, The George Washington University

Peg Barratt

Dean, GW Columbian College o Arts and Sciences

Debra Jacobson

Co-Director, GW Solar Institute

Keynote9:00 9:30am

Ambassador Stuart EizenstatPartner, Covington & Burling LLP

Solar Vision Forum9:30 11:00 amKey issues and opportunities or moving orward with solar on

an energy-signifcant scale

Moderator: Jerry Bloom

Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP

John Lushetsky

Manager, DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program

Scott Sklar

President, The Stella Group

Arnold Goldman

Chairman, Brightsource

Rhone Resch

President & CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association

Ken Zweibel

Executive Director, GW Solar Institute

Discussion 40 Minutes

Break11:00 11:15am

Solar Photovoltaic Electricity11:15 am 12:30 pmTechnical & economic easibility o energy-signifcant

solar energy rom PV

Maja Wessels

Executive Vice President, First Solar

Julie Blunden

VP o Public Policy and Corporate Communications, SunPo

Symposium Agenda


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David Miller

President, Electronics & Communications, DuPont

Question & Answer Session

Lunch12:30 1:45 pm

Networking LunchMarvin Center, 3rd Floor

Solar Thermal Electricity1:45 3:00 pmTechnical & economic easibility o energy-signifcant

solar energy rom CSP

William Gould

Chie Technical Ofcer, Solar Reserve

Scott Frier

Chie Operating Ofcer, Abengoa Solar

Chris Myers

VP or Energy Programs, Lockheed Martin


Break3:00 3:15 pm

Solar Energy & Transportation3:15 4:30 pmWhich makes sense electricity or portable uels rom solar?

Sam Baldwin

Chie Technology Ofcer, EERE DOE

Stuart Licht

Proessor o Chemistry, The George Washington University

Don Paul

Executive Director, USC Energy Institute


Wrap Up4:30 4:45 pmKen Zweibel

Executive Director, GW Solar Institute

Reception4:45 5:30 pm


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Sam BaldwinDr. Sam Baldwin serves as the Chie Technology

Ofcer or the Ofce o Energy Efciency and

Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department

o Energy and a Member o the Board o

Directors or the Ofce. In previous positions

he has served with the White House Ofce

o Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the

Congressional Ofce o Technology Assessment (OTA), Princeton

University, the U.S. Senate, and elsewhere.

Dr. Baldwin is the author or co-author o 9 books and monographs

at OSTP, OTA, DOE, and elsewhere, and more than 30 papers and

technical reports on energy technology and policy, physics, and

other issues. He is a Fellow o the American Association or the

Advancement o Science and holds a doctorate in physics.

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Peg BarrattDr. Peg Barratt is Dean o the Columbian

College o Arts and Sciences at The Georg

Washington University, the oldest college

the University. Departments and program

are supported in the arts and humanities;

social and behavioral sciences; and natura

mathematical and biomedical sciences.

Dr. Barratt served as Deputy Director o

Clinical Research Policy Analysis and Coordination program at N

(CRpac) until 2006, and beore that as Division Director or Behav

and Cognitive Sciences and Program Director or Developmenta

and Learning Sciences/Childrens Research Initiative at the Natio

Science Foundation.

Prior to her service at NSF, Dr. Barratt directed the Institute or Ch

Youth, and Families at Michigan State University and was a mem

the aculty o the University o Wisconsin-Madison or 19 years in

Department o Human Development and Family Studies and s

as department chair. She received the University o Wisconsin-Ma

Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998.

She received a doctorate in developmental psychology rom th

University o Wisconsin-Madison, and received bachelors andmasters degrees in psychology rom Michigan State University

She also holds a Master o Philosophy in psychology rom The

George Washington University.

Speaker Bios


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Jerry BloomJerry Bloom is a partner at Winston and Strawn,

LLP. He is chair o the irms energy, project

development, and inance practice group

and ocuses his practice on the development

and operation o domestic and international

independent energy projects, electric-industry

restructuring and privatization, and mergers

and acquisitions.

Bloom has extensive experience in the negotiation o o-take

and power purchase agreements, engineering, procurement, and

construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements,

uel supply agreements, syndication, and agency agreements. He

has assisted in the development and operation o energy projects

in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Turkey, Pakistan,

Indonesia, Australia, the Philippines, and China. He is also active in

the development o small- and utility-scale photovoltaic and thermal

solar acilities. He is also a member o the Advisory Board o the GW

Solar institute.

Bloom received a bachelors in psychology in 1974 and a masters

in counseling in 1976 rom The George Washington University. He

received a Juris Doctor rom the University o Miami School o Lawin 1980.

Julie BlundenSince April o 2005, Julie Blunden has

served as VP o Public Policy and Corporate

Communications or SunPower, leading public

relations, inancial relations, public policy,

and market development. Prior to SunPower,

Blunden was a consultant at KEMA-XENERGY

on energy markets, renewable resources and

policy to industry, utilities and state and ederal

governments. In that role, Blunden supported the Schwarzenegger

administration in developing the Million Solar Homes Initiative. In

1997, she co-ounded Green Mountain Energy Company, a national

retail electric supplier o renewable power.

Blunden began her career doing development and acquisitions in

the independent power generation business at the AES Corporation.

She received a Master o Business Administration degree rom

the Stanord Graduate School o Business and a bachelors rom

Dartmouth College majoring in engineering, modiied with

environmental studies. She serves on the board o directors at

the Center or Resource Solutions and the Real Goods Solar Living

Institute, as well as on the board o advisors or Vote Solar.


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Stuart E. Eizenstat

Ambassador Eizenstat is head o the

international practice o Covington and Burling

LLP. His work at Covington ocuses on resolving

international trade problems and business

disputes with the U.S. and oreign governments,

and international business transactions andregulations on behal o U.S. companies and

others around the world.

During a decade and a hal o public service in three U.S.

administrations, Ambassador Eizenstat has held a number o key

senior positions, including chie White House domestic policy adviser

to President Jimmy Carter (19771981); U.S. Ambassador to the

European Union, Under Secretary o Commerce or International Trade,

Under Secretary o State or Economic, Business and Agricultural Aairs,

and Deputy Secretary o the Treasury in the Clinton Administration

(19932001).

During the Clinton Administration, he had a prominent role in the

development o key international initiatives, including the negotiations

o the Transatlantic Agenda with the European Union (establishing

what remains o the ramework or the U.S. relationship with the EU);

the development o the Transatlantic Business Dialogue ( TABD) among

European and U.S. CEOs; the negotiation o the Japan Port Agreement

with the Japanese government; and the negotiation o the Kyoto

Protocol on global warming, where he led the U.S. delegation.

Scott Frier

Scott Frier is the Chie Operating Oice

or Abengoa Solar Inc., which has a 20-ye

history o solar thermal R&D in Europe and

developed several +25 MW solar thermal

Frier had been in the oil and gas industry

1988 when he became General Manager worlds frst commercial solar thermal pow

acilitySEGS I and IInear Barstow, Cali

He then moved on to become the General Manager o the iv

Kramer SEGS or LUZ and aterwards, became the Chie Operatin

Oicer o KJC Operating Company (KJC OC), the worlds large

producer o solar energy, until it was sold at the end o 2004. Fri

then served as President and CEO o Solargenix Operating Servi

now Acciona Solar. During his tenure, Acciona developed the N

Solar One Project, a 64 MW plant near Boulder City, Nevada. It w

the frst large-scale parabolic trough plant constructed in the U

sixteen years.

Frier let Acciona Solar, to serve as Chie Operating Ocer o Abe

Solar, where he is currently developing large-scale solar-therma

projects in the U.S. Southwest as well as supporting other large-

international developments.


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Arnold Goldman

Arnold J. Goldman is the Chairman and

Founder o both BrightSource Energy Inc.

and BrightSource Industries (Israel), Ltd. (BSII).

Goldman ounded Luz International, Ltd.

and served as its Chie Executive Oicer. Luz

International, Ltd. designed, constructed,inanced, and operated the worlds nine

largest Solar Electric Generating Systems

(SEGS) which, at the time, generated ninety percent o the worlds

solar electricity. Goldman also co-ounded Electric Fuel Ltd., an

electric battery/uel cell company listed today as Aerotech on the

NASDAQ exchange. He was the Vice President o Engineering and

co-ounder o Lexitron, the irst word processing company in the

U.S. Raytheon purchased Lexitron in 1977.

Goldman is the recipient o two international awards or hiscontribution to solar energy development. He holds numerous

patents or his inventions and innovations. He holds a Bachelor

o Science in engineering rom UCLA and a Master o Science in

Electrical Engineering rom the University o Southern Caliornia.

William R. Gould Jr.

Gould serves as the Chie Technical Ocer

or SolarReserve. He brings more than thirty

years o technical experience to SolarReserve

in the areas o engineering, procurement and

construction o power plants and power related

systemswith the last twelve years o his careerlargely dedicated to solar energy installations.

Goulds highly regarded solar energy expertise

includes extensive easibility work, design, construction, cost

estimating, and fnancial due diligence on various concentrating

solar thermal power plant technologies, including power tower and

solar trough designs. This work includes acilities in development,

construction and in operation in the U.S. as well as installations in

Europe, Arica the Middle East, and Latin America.

Gould served as Project Manager o the Solar Two project built in 1997near Barstow, Caliornia by the U.S. Department o Energy. This highly

successul demonstration acility was the largest thermal power tower

installation at the time and utilized molten salt technology or energy

capture and storage, similar to SolarReserves current technology.

Gould received Bachelor o Science and Master o Science degrees

in mechanical engineering rom Brigham Young University and is a

licensed Proessional Engineer in a several states.


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Debra JacobsonDebra Jacobson joined the Solar Institute as

Co-Director in September 2009. She has worked

in the felds o energy and environmental law

and policy or more than 30 years or more than

25 years, Jacobson worked in the legislative and

executive branches o the Federal government,including 16 years as a sta member on the

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

and 6 years as a legislative aide to a member o the Committee.

In addition, Jacobson served or ive years as a senior advisor and

in special assistant positions in the Oce o the Secretary, the Oce

o Energy Eiciency and Renewable Energy, and the Oice o

Environmental Management at the Department o Energy.

Since 2002, Jacobson has taught Energy Law at the GW Law School

and worked as an independent consultant on energy and climateissues. She was a ounding member o the Womens Council on Energy

and the Environment in 1981 and currently serves as an Advisor to the

REIL Project and as a Member o the DOEs Wind Powering America

Strategy Committee.

She earned a Juris Doctor rom The George Washington Law School

and a Bachelor o Arts in environmental studies rom the University

o Rochester. She is a member o the Bar in both New York and

Washington, D.C.

Steven KnappSteven Knapp became the 16th presiden

The George Washington University on Au

1, 2007. A distinguished scholar with nea

30 years o experience in higher educatio

administration, Dr. Knapp previously serv

provost and senior vice president or acaaairs at The Johns Hopkins University.

As president, Dr. Knapps priorities include enhancing GWs

partnerships with organizations and agencies throughout the

nations capital, increasing the institutions preeminence in resear

addressing the aordability o higher education, and strengtheni

connections with its lielong and worldwide community o alu

He also has convened task orces on sustainability and campus

saety and security.A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century English literature and lite

theory, Dr. Knapp served or 16 years on the aculty at the Univ

o Caliornia, Berkeley, where he held leadership positions in t

Department o English and on university committees. Dr. Knap

earned a masters degree and doctorate rom Cornell University

a Bachelor o Arts degree rom Yale University.


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Stuart LichtDr. Licht is Proessor o Chemistry in The

George Washington University Columbian

College o Arts and Sciences and is a ounding

member o the GW Institute o Basic Energy

Science and Technology. His current research

ocuses on the generation o uels romsunlight, and he has published numerous

articles on the subject, which have been

eatured in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Prior to coming to The George Washington University, Dr. Licht served

as a Program Director in the Chemistry Division o the National Science

Foundation. He also held proessor positions at Technion Israel Institute

o Technology, Clark University, and the University o Massachusetts,

Boston, where he served as Chair o the Chemistry Department rom

2003 to 2006.

Dr. Licht earned his doctorate rom the Weizmann Institute o Science

and a bachelors degree in chemistry and a masters in physics rom

Wesleyan University.

John LushetskyJohn Lushetsky is the Manager o the

U.S. Department o Energys Solar Energy

Technologies Program (SETP) with responsibility

or all solar technology development, grid

integration, and market transormation activities

under the Solar America Initiative announced byPresident Bush in 2006. His career has included

signiicant technology development and

commercialization roles with both start-up and Fortune 500 companies.

Lushetsky was previously with Corning, Inc., where he held a number

o senior positions with responsibility or strategic marketing,

account management and business development activities. Most

recently, Lushetsky was responsible or developing new strategic

business opportunities in the solar technologies as well as the

computer electronics, medical device and lie science, and waterpurifcation industries.

Prior to Corning, Lushetsky was with Electrosource, Inc., an Austin,

Texas-based start-up developing an advanced battery technology or

electric and hybrid vehicles. While with Electrosource, Lushetsky had

responsibility or marketing, business development and company

fnancing activities.

Lushetsky holds a Master o Business Administration in international

business rom The George Washington University, and a bachelors andmasters degree cum laude in engineering science rom the University

o Florida.


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David MillerDavid B. Miller is President o DuPont Electronics

& Communications. Miller joined DuPont in

1981. He began his career with DuPont at

the Savannah River Plant in Aiken, S.C., where

he held several positions in engineering and

manuacturing. He then moved into theDuPont Electronic Materials business where

he held assignments in sales, marketing, and

business management, including Managing Director o the Asia Pacifc

Region. Upon his return rom Asia, Miller became a Director in DuPont

Investor Relations. He was named Vice President and General Manager,

DuPont Electronic Technologies in January 2001. In June 2007, he was

named group Vice President o DuPont Electronic & Communication

Technologies. He assumed his present position in October 2009.

Miller is also a member o the Semiconductor Equipment and MaterialsInternational (SEMI) North America Advisory Board, serving on the

public policy subcommittee.

He received a Bachelor o Science in electrical engineering rom the

University o Virginia.

Chris MyersChristopher D. Myers was appointed Vice

President o Government and Energy Prog

or Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Se

(MS2) in January 2010.

In this role, he is responsible or ensuring M

business strategies are properly coordinate

and executed in conjunction with Lockhee

Martins Corporate Washington oce. Myers also leads MS2s entr

into the renewable energy market as the capture executive or En

Generation and is responsible or establishing and growing MS2s

presence in this feld.

Previously, Myers was Vice President, Business Development, whe

was responsible or new business acquisition, technology researc

development or MS2 pursuits. He has also served as Vice Preside

Advanced Programs, with responsibility or leading MS2s eorts

in developing advanced sensors and weapons systems or surac

combatant ships. Beore that role, he was Vice President, Seabase

Missile Deense Programs, which included overseeing Aegis Ballis

Missile Deense.

Myers joined Lockheed Martin ater a distinguished career with th

U.S. Navy. He earned a bachelors degree in political science rom

University o Colorado at Boulder and a Master o Public Administ

degree rom Cornell University.

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Donald PaulDr. Donald Paul is the Executive Director o the

University o Southern Caliornia Energy Institute,

where he also holds the William M. Keck Chair in

Energy Resources. The USC Energy Institute was

launched in 2008 to create a university-based

ramework to support and expand opportunitiesin energy-related research, education, and public

policy development.

Dr. Paul had a distinguished career at Chevron, retiring in 2008

as the corporations Vice President and Chie Technology Oicer.

During his 33 year tenure at Chevron, he held a variety o positions in

research and technology, exploration and production operations, and

executive management, including service as president o Chevrons

Canadian subsidiary. As Chevrons Chie Technology Ocer, he was

responsible or the corporations three major technology subsidiaries:Energy Technology, Inormation Technology, and Technology Ventures.

He was extensively involved in orming external research and

technology partnerships between Chevron and major universities,

governments, and businesses.

Dr. Pauls public service record is expansive, and he was recently

recognized or his career contributions as a recipient o the USC Viterbi

School o Engineerings Distinguished Service Award and an honorary

Doctorate o Engineering rom the Colorado School o Mines.

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Rhone ReschRhone Resch is President and Chie Executive

Ocer o the Solar Energy Industries Association

(SEIA). At SEIA, Resch is responsible or all

aspects o the associations operations and

implementation o SEIAs strategic priorities.

Resch is a registered lobbyist with more than15 years o experience working in clean energy

development and climate change issues. Prior

to coming to SEIA, he was Senior Vice President o the Natural Gas

Supply Association, a trade association that represents both major

and independent companies that produce and market natural gas.

In addition, he has served as Program Manager at the EPAs Climate

Protection Division in the Oce o Air and Radiation, developing

energy eciency programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and

hazardous air pollutants rom the petroleum industry.Resch has also supported the U.S. Department o Energys

Environmental Management Program, evaluating the energy eciency

o industrial operations and reviewing regulatory compliance with

respect to Superund, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,

the Toxic Substance Control Act, as well as the Clean Water Act, Clean

Air Act, and the Occupational Saety and Health Act.

He received a Master o Public Administration degree in management

rom Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School, a Master o Environmental

Engineering rom SUNY Syracuse, and a Bachelor o Arts rom theUniversity o Michigan.


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Scott SklarScott Sklar is President o The Stella Group, a

strategic marketing and policy frm or clean

distributed energy users and companies. The frm

specializes in blending technologies and fnancing

or projects, assisting companies to scale-up

market penetration, and acilitating ederal andstate polices to expand markets. He joined the

company ull-time as its President in 2000.

For fteen years, he was simultaneously the Executive Director o

the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy

Industries Association. Sklar also served as Political Director o the

Solar Lobby, ormed by several national environmental groups, and

co-ounded the Congressional Solar Coalition, which helped drive

legislation or renewables in the 1970s. His co-authored book,

A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy, was re-released or its third printing,and his co-authored book, The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the

Twentieth Century, was updated and re-released in early 2010 by

University o Nebraska Press.

Sklar serves on and chairs numerous industry and non-proft boards.

Sklar will join The George Washington University in September 2010

to teach a course on sustainable energy within the Columbia College

o Arts and Sciences.

Maja WesselsMaja Wessels leads First Solars governmen

aairs, sustainable development and

community relations activities globally

Wessels joined First Solar as Vice President

Government Aairs or the Europe, Middle

and Arica region in May 2008 ater servingyears as Senior Vice President o Governme

Aairs at Honeywell or the EMEA region a

three as President, United Technologies International Operations

Europe. Wessels chaired the American Electronics Industry Assoc

Europe rom 2006 to 2007 and prior to that served as President o

American Chamber o Commerce to the EU rom 2003 to 2007. F

1997 to 2000 she was Vice President o Government Aairs in Eur

Daimler Chrysler.

Wessels received a bachelors degree rom Dartmouth College. Salso holds a masters degree in international economics and Euro

studies rom the School o Advanced International Studies at The

Hopkins University.


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Ken Zweibel

Ken Zweibel has almost 30 years experience

in solar photovoltaics. During his 26 years at

the National renewable Energy Lab (NREL),

Zweibel led their development o thin lm PV,

serving as program leader or the Thin Film PV

Partnership Program until 2006. The Thin FilmPartnership worked with most U.S. stakeholders

in thin ilm PV (companies, universities,

scientists) and is oten credited with being important to the success

o thin lm PV in the U.S. Zweibel subsequently co-ounded and

became Chairman and President o a thin lm CdTe PV start-up,

PrimeStar Solar, a majority o which has been purchased by General

Electric. Zweibel authored the Solar Grand Plan, an article appearing

in Scientic American (January 2008).

Since July 2008, Zweibel has been Director o the Solar Institute atThe George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Institute

conducts research into the economic, technical, and public policy

issues associated with the development and deployment o solar

energy to meet global energy and environmental challenges. Zweibel

has been on the Steering Committee o the DOE Solar Vision since

June 2009, when it began an efort to develop a deployment plan or

solar through 2030. Zweibel also keeps an active blog on solar energy,

thesolarreview.org.


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The George Washington

University Solar Institute

researches the economic,

technical, and public policy

issues associated with the

development and deployment

of solar energy to meet

global energy needs and

environmental challenges.

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