Congressional Briefings Library

The Roundtable is pleased to provide you with the speaker PowerPoint presentations and supplemental materials from our recent Congressional Briefing Webinar on renewables and transmission issues. To access the individual PowerPoint presentations and supplemental materials submissions, click on the hyperlinked items below. 

Participation in our Congressional Briefing events is by invitation only.  If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Hindmarch at 303 577 4615.  

Game Changing Technologies: A Briefing to Congress and a National Webinar
In Connection with the Capitol Hill CleanTech Expo '09, Friday, July 17, 2009

Speaker PowerPoint Presentations

• The Art of the Possible: Tomorrow's Disruptive Technologies Today
  Frank Prautzsch, Director, Growth Teams and Director Business Development Raytheon Renewable Energy Enterprise Campaign, Raytheon
   
• American Rare Earth Minerals: The Indispensable Resource for Clean Energy Technologies
  Mark Smith, CEO, Molycorp Minerals, LLC
   
• FMC Environmental Solutions
  Scott Steffl, Director, Business Development, FMC Peryoxyns
   
• New Markets for Coal & Carbon
  Morry Davis, Director of Government Relations, Peabody Energy 

Roundtable Briefing To Congressional Offices
Live Event on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 28, 2009  

Speaker PowerPoint Presentations

• Life Cycle Impact Declarations: A Look at the Recently-Released WAPA Study
  Bill Karsell, Independent Consultant
   
• Will We Burn the Bridge to our Renewable Future?: Facts and Fallacies of Clean-Burning Natural Gas
  John Harpole, CEO, Mercator Energy

Supplemental Materials

• Life Cycle Impact Assessment Overview  

How Do We Add Massive Renewables To The Grid While Keeping The Lights On
Webinar, Friday, March 27, 2009

Speaker PowerPoint Presentations

• Robert Kondziolka, Manager of Transmission Planning
  Salt River Project 
   
• Jerry Vaninetti, Vice President, Western Development
  Trans-Elect Development Co. 
   
• Ron Steinbach, Transmission Policy Administrator
  Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.

Supplemental Materials Provided By Our Speakers      

• Colorado Long Range Transmission Planning Study -- 2005-2015 (provided by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.)
   
• DOE National Transmission Congestion Workshop 2009 - Presentation by Robert Kondziolka, includes map and status of projects in planning and development in the SWAT footprint (provided by Salt River Project)
   
• Transmission Growth in the US March 2009 (provided by Salt River Project)
   
• WestConnect Transmission Plan 2008, presentation from the January WestConnect Stakeholder meeting showing a summary of WestConnect ten year plan (provided by Salt River Project)
   
• WECC Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee 2008 Study Results, Bradley Nickell's (WECC) presentation to DOE Congestion Workshop, which includes a map of projects in planning and development in the Western Interconnection (provided by Salt River Project)
   
• Map: Current Transmission Projects in Wyoming (provided by Trans-Elect Development Co.)   

Speaker PowerPoint Presentation

• Analysis of the Western Climate Initiative
  Roger H. Bezdek, Ph.D., President, Management Information Services, Inc.

Supplemental Materials

• Full Study
   
• Executive Summary
   
• One Page Summary of Findings