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Co-Op Power hosts Sustainable Energy Summit and Professional Workshops |
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
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Co-Op Power, a New England energy
cooperative, will host its 5th Annual Sustainable Energy  Summit at the
University of Massachusetts Campus Center, in Amherst, Massachusetts,
from 1-2 May. The Summit
will include full-day green jobs workshops and new this year, there will be a
series of full-day Professional training workshops geared toward engineers,
trades people, designers and other professionals.
Over the course of the two
days, there will be over 40 exhibitors and 40 presenters throughout the day and
the keynote speakers will be Stewart Acuff who will be discussing the
opportunities for building good green jobs and union jobs in the US today;
Chuck Collins that will present “Community Owned Energy and the Solidarity
Economy”, Gus Newport will host “Who Owns it Matters – Focus on Equity and
Focus on Community” and Pat Murphy with “Plan C - Community Solutions for Food,
Housing and Transportation”.
In the Professional
training workshops, the program will include “Deep Energy Retrofits”, a training that will focus on the
deep energy retrofits of homes and other building types by Marc
Rosenbaum. There
will also be an “Advanced Solar Hot Water Installation Training”, for commercial and complex
residential applications, by Tim Bowler
(Stiebel Eltron) and Donavin Gratz (Green in Green). “State-of-the-Art
Hydronic Design Concepts for Solar Thermal Professionals” will be a session
with John
Siegenthaler that will
discuss several topics, such as thermal/hydraulic equilibrium and low power
pumping.
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