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Please join us for CalWEA's Annual Meeting October 22-23, 2008. Get the latest information on the policies shaping California's renewable energy market. Hear from policymakers. Establish CalWEA's priorities for 2009.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
10:00 a.m.-Noon o Board and Committee Meetings TBD
(CalWEA Members Only)
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. o General Meeting (CalWEA Members Only)
Elections; Review of CalWEA's 2008 Program and Discuss Priorities for 2009
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. - Reception
San Francisco Financial District
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
8:00 a.m. - Light Breakfast and Socializing
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. - Policy Forum All Speakers Confirmed!
Speakers: Darren Bouton, Deputy Cabinet Secretary, Office of Governor Schwarzenegger; Yakout Mansour, President and CEO, California Independent System Operator; Karen Douglas, Commissioner, California Energy Commission; Paul Douglas, Energy Division, California Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco Financial District
Members
Day 1 Only: No Charge
Days 1 & 2: $400
Non-Members
Reception & Day 2: $500
Meeting Agenda to Follow
Make Your Hotel Reservations Now
Find hotels (with reviews) at http://www.sftravel.com/lodge.html
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An Editorial: CalWEA Executive Director Answers the Question: Is the RPS Working? Read more >>>
Nature Writer Bill McKibben -- “[W]hat we need to say is: every bird, and everything else that we know, is fundamentally at risk in the next few decades [due to global warming]. In the name of birds, I want that windmill on my ridge. In the name of wild beauty, I want that windmill out my window...” Read more >>>
The Birds and The Breeze - from Sierra Magazine, “According to a 2003 study of 4,700 turbines located outside California, each killed 2.3 birds per year. That's a tiny number compared with the hundreds of millions of birds that fall prey to cats every year……and it pales in comparison to the number of birds and other creatures that would be killed by catastrophic global warming.” Read more >>>
CalWEA addresses wind energy’s reliability in this Energy Circuit Editorial – “The initial results from a California Energy Commission study show that the California grid has the technical capability to include 20 percent intermittent generation under a 33 percent renewable goal without the need for significant new resources to accommodate the variability of these intermittent renewables.” Read more >>>
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