VX2011
VX2011 California Luncheon Plenary--AB 32: Sustaining California’s Climate Change Leadership Role in North America: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Moderator: CARB's James Goldstene
Panelists: LADWP's Ron Nichols, SCE's Mike Hertel, PWC's Gavin Chui
How Do New and Mature Technologies Get Introduced into California's Energy Marketplace?
Moderator: Robert Hertzberg
Panelists: CARB's Sandy Berg, Hal Snyder (SDG&E and SoCalGas), SCE's Gene Rodriques, CPUC's Jeanne Clinton
Innovative Technologies & City Infrastructure Investments Necessary to Roll-Out Alternative Powered Vehicles in 2011
Moderator: Terry O'Day, Santa Monica City Council
Panelists: SDG&E's Alex Kim, AeroVironment's Michael Bissonette, Better Places' Vandana Bali, Kodi-s' Dr. Jung Taek
Is High Speed Rail on Track in California?
Moderator: Richard Katz, Metro Board
Panelists: Robert Hertzberg, Assemblymember Fiona Ma, Mertes Management & Technology's Paul Mertes
Post Election Mega Trends – U.S. & California Renewable Policy
Moderator: Bill Allen
Panelists: Austin Beutner, Chris Cox, Robert Hertzberg, NRDC's Felicia Marcus, Peter Beattie (former Queensland, Australia's Premier & Trade Representative)
Profiting from AB 32
GreenTechMedia: "'This is going to be about how to make money,' greentech entrepreneur and former California Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg announced to the midday plenary. The subject was actually how to make money under the regulation of California’s AB 32, the most far-sighted U.S. climate change law to date, and California’s nation-leading 33%-by-2020 Renewable Portfolio Standard."
Japanese Clean Tech Business Interest
United Television Broadcasting: Many Japanese companies, led by the Japanese Consulate General in Los Angeles, participated in VX2011, sharing ideas and energy for future clean tech partnerships. The video is narrated in Japanese, with some interviews in English.
Transmission Challenges
GreenTechMedia: "Californians gathered in Los Angeles for the fourth annual VerdeXchange, a business-to-business cross-platform cleantech conference, seemed a little dazed this year, caught between the exhilaration of having a standard requiring utilities to obtain a third of their power from renewable energy by 2020 and panic at having to implement such a standard."
GreenTechMedia: How Do You Blend Gas and Renewables?
In GreenTechMedia: "In a discussion about policy and climate change, SCE’s Michael Hertel described what he called a Gordian knot.