Energy and Climate Cluster Telecons

4th Thursday Each Month
Time: 3 pm EDT
Dial-In Information:

Phone Number: 1-877-669-3239

Meeting Code: 231 338 97

Chair: Shailendra Kumar shailendra.kumar@ngc.com

May 26, 2011

Attendance: Kumar, Erin Robinson (ESIP Staff), Yasmin Zaerpoor (ESIP Fellow), Allison Labonte (from Office of S&T Policy), Carol Meyer (ESIP Staff)

News:

Summer Conference (July 12-15, 2011) Related: Only one break-out session scheduled on morning of July 13. Confirmation from 5 speakers, still waiting for a 6th.
Richard Eckman has agreed to serve in the co-chair role.

Meeting Discussion:

Erin hasn’t heard back from Carl Benedict. Back up would be to talk about a potential project (picking a topic that is relevant to the current membership- data, data quality, and how ESIP membership can benefit). Idea is to develop a white paper that includes all the information collected so far and areas where users need help and can be used as a guide for the next set of meetings. Identify needs, requirements, issues users are facing and how to provide the information (gap analysis).
Allison: Nature Conservancy has all types of data on habitats and species. Lawrence Martin (?) from Dept of Energy is trying to make this available in one place for the renewable energy community so that they can choose places for renewable energy that will have the least impact on these species. How do we overlay information that is impt to sitings/renewable energy projects with low impact?
Kumar: Overlaying information for where the wind farms are and energy sources are is a large undertaking. NREL has the best available data up to date.
Allison will try to find out who the key people from AWWI (American Wind Wildlife Institute) are to see if they could come together for a topic. Could potentially be the 6th speaker. Allison will send Erin/Kumar an abstract and title for a possible talk within the next week. (Half hour slot) Will be more or less a discussion but Allison will provide the initial guidance for that.
Kumar will have abstracts ready before the next meeting.

March 24, 2011

Attendance: Scott Crowder, Chris? , Kumar, Erin

Summer Meeting - July 12-15, 2011

what data is out there and where are they?

NREL has OpenEI
Internal initiative data.nrel.gov - registry of all data streams
Scott will follow-up with efforts: Ryan McKeil or Debby B. Giles

Wind power - (Scott)

In negotiations with wind people - have wind data, resource and performance information

Follow-up with Karl (Erin/Kumar)

gov't state/local users
Professor

Generate a white paper that addresses the issues and id's different data sources; provide gap analysis - Funding

Los Alamos - follow-up/Chris Lendhardt
Users - local in N.M.?
Military - Army Science Board (Scott?)/ Navy contact

Housekeeping:

Meeting files from last meeting (Kumar)
Climate and Energy - fix on the website (Erin)

February 24, 2011

Energy Cluster Telecon - February , 2011

Attendance - Rob Raskin, Stefan Falke, Shailendra Kumar, Erin Robinson

Stefan/Kumar - Joint session Recap:

background on AQ Work Group - cluster -> Work group.
Common project could tie groups together

EPA interested in using cluster to broaden connections to other orgs.

Project that works with EPA/NOAA

Terry to introduce group to new initiative

DOE - send list (Alison)
Kumar follow-up with DOE

Will have session at summer meeting.

GEOSS session remote participation
Get specifications what range of energy quality needs are.
Need for climatelogical data for solar/wind that may come from members.
NREL - What data do they have? How can we take initiative

Users/Participants:

State of New Mexico?
Erin - Karl contacts with the State - User needs for energy/climate in NM
Organizations working with end users already - (AQ example was AirNow) - KDF
Military - white sands? (Karl)
University programs - User groups that they work with that may be?

Los Alamos

Kumar will follow-up
Sante Fe Institute: http://www.santafe.edu/search/results/?query=energy
- Brings a lot of summer people and who may be able to tap?
- Rob will follow-up
GEOSS AIP - Kumar intro with Lionel
Lawrence Livermore Lab - Climate/Energy

September 23, 2010

Energy Cluster Telecon – September 23, 2010

Present:

Shailendra Kumar
Brian Rogan

Energy Cluster contribution to the ESIP 2010 Winter Meeting in Washington D.C

Speaker ideas

It’s important to get a big name. Admiral Titley from the naval task force would be a good speaker on task force energy and how they use energy and their needs. This also includes climate change, energy usage, understanding demand, etc.

It is also worth getting someone from utilities i.e. Duke Energy, Florida Power, etc. There are some good names from this area. Jim Rodgers for example would be a good speaker.

The Visioneers group is looking to solidify the theme based on Making Data Matter. While it would have a subtheme of evaluation, metrics, data measurement, etc., it would be important to get the needs of the cluster addressed.

QDR Project-Amanda Dory was unable to attend the last meeting and this meeting might be more amenable to her schedule. What needs to happen for military bases for the QDR to be implemented?

New York city is another possibility. The city did an intensive study of climate change on the city and they have agreed that the results of the study are that they need to step up and do something immediately. Columbia University was deeply involved in this study. The group will push for someone from the mayor’s office to come speak as part of a session.

William Goran, the director of sustainability at the Army Corps of Engineers. Their charge is energy supply and demand. His area is carbon footprint. EERE-Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy, is a DOE organization that does a lot of things.

Two potential people at the organization are Kathy Zoie, Assistant Secretary for Energy and Kathleen Hogan .

Poster Session

Is it possible to have “categories”?

Action items

Kumar will call into the next visioneers telecon on October 4th.
Kumar will look into soliciting someone from EERE
Kumar will work on soliciting possible submissions for posters that would reflect the energy theme.

Update on current cluster activities

It is important to define the objectives for the cluster. Tight succinct rules for the cluster; what do we want to achieve? The Air Quality Group is the model for what the Energy Cluster would like to achieve. They seem to capture the essence of what we are trying to do. The group should draft something along the same lines.

Collaborative project

There was a conversation in the last telecon with Melinda about a collaborative project. She can discuss this at the next meeting and talk about areas of action that the federation can be part of and look at funding opportunities. There has been significant funding through NOAA but by bringing it to ESIP. It gives another way for NOAA to interface with End Users. It is a high visibility project. It would be worth working on user requirements. That way there can be multiple users so that the information can be fed to NOAA. Brian discussed the possibility of the cluster getting some funds. While Clusters are not budget eligible if a proposal is created ahead of time, it might be considered by the finance committee. However, it would need to be discussed with Carol.

Action Item

Kumar will work with Carol to determine the ability of getting funding for the project.

Aug 26, 2010

Agenda

Recap of the Summer 2010 ESIP Meeting
Plans for the Winter 2011 ESIP meeting

April 22, 2010

Agenda

Overview and origins of the objectives for the Energy Cluster (Wilson, 10 min)
Open discussion of the needs and stakeholders (including IT/Data management)
Plans for the Summer 2010 ESIP meeting Draft meeting agenda
What happens after the Summer 2010 ESIP Meeting?

Telecon Notes

Notes for the telecon are being captured here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQduKLUfYU-uZGRndnN4MzhfMmd0M3JyZ2Nr&hl=en

This link is available for global edit, so you can contribute during the conference.

Telecon Action Items

Bruce: Confirm Tom Boden or other from CDIAC to talk about emissions data
Bruce: Confirm Arjun Shankar or other to talk about VERDE for energy planning.