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Texas  Upcoming Events

Wind Energy Primer

Date: 1/20/2009

Location: Austin , TX

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

Austin Convention Center.

This special half-day Wind Energy Primer is designed to provide landowners, ranchers, municipal and school board officials, and new entrants to the field with an overview of the economics of wind power and the wind industry, including development and leasing from the landowner's perspective, and background explanations on transmission, CREZ, the role of ERCOT, and more. This primer also offers special sessions on community and distributed wind generation of interest to landowners, school boards, municipalities and commercial enterprises considering generation power for their own use. There will be lots of opportunity for Q&A.

We invite all Primer registrants to continue on with the main Wind Energy Institute Program over the next two days, which will cover many of these issues in greater depth. See registration form to register for both programs.

Wind Energy Institute

Date: 1/21/2009 to 1/22/2009

Location: Austin , TX

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

Austin Convention Center.

Join energy attorneys, developers, renewable energy experts, county officials, landowners, and engineers at the 2009 Wind Energy Institute. A nationally-recognized faculty — drawn from attorneys, developers, engineers, and key Texas policymakers — will provide you with the latest technological, business, and legal information regarding wind development. Topics include emerging issues, market conditions, CREZ developments, dispatch priority, citing issues, and more.

APPA Engineering and Operations Technical Conference

Date: 3/22/2009 to 3/25/2009

Location: Austin , TX

Contact: American Public Power Association

Phone: (202) 467-2900

American Public Power Association.

For 53 years, the American Public Power Association has been hosting the annual Engineering & Operations Technical Conference. The conference was founded to meet the unique needs of professionals charged with designing, developing and maintaining the electric systems across the country.

Today, the conference continues to be the only national conference designed to meet the needs of engineering and operations staff, and has expanded to include the public power lineworkers' rodeo competition. The conference benefits public power professionals working in the areas of transmission and distribution, environmental policy, generation, safety, SCADA, metering, security and system planning.

 

 

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