Energy Cluster July 2010 Agenda

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Energy Cluster Plans for July 2010 ESIP Meeting

Motivation and Goals

Understanding Climate change impact on Energy demand and supply, and decision support for planning adaptation and mitigation strategies is one of the highest priorities from national security as well as from national and local government agency’s perspective. In this context, energy includes both conventional and renewable energy sources, with an initial focus on electric power. It has significant implications both from domestic and international point of view.

Given these considerations, we are proposing to launch an energy sector within the ESIP at the upcoming Summer 2010 meeting. The objective of this new Energy Sector is to provide a forum for impacted organizations to provide end user needs, government organizations to discuss policy constraints and requirements, and data and decision support solution providers to make the needed tools available to serve those needs.


July 21, 2010 Wednesday Afternoon

End User Needs and Policy Perspective

  • 1:15 - 1:35 Intro to Energy Cluster: Goals and objectives (Shailendra Kumar, NGC)
  • 1:35 - 2:10 Policy and Impacts perspectives on Energy and Climate Change (title tentative; Ben Preston, ORNL)
  • 2:10 - 2:45 City of Knoxville Sustainability initiative results and needs (Susanna Bass, City of Knoxville)
  • 2:40 - 3:10 Break
  • 3:15 - 3:45 NASA Products to enhance Energy Load Forecasting (Erica Zell, Battelle)
  • 3:45 - 4:15 Data generated and needed for carbon sequestration (Jeff Bielicki, ORNL/UT)
  • 4:15 - 4:45 Panel discussion on end user needs and policy perspective (all)
  • 5:00 - 7:00 Poster session and reception (plenary)

July 22, 2010 Thursday Morning

Data Providers

  • 8:30 - 9:00 NOAA Climate Service (Fuzhong Wang, NOAA)
  • 9:00 - 9:30 NASA data centers (Paul Stackhouse, NASA)
  • 9:30 - 10:00 CO2 emissions estimates/forecasts (Tom Boden, ORNL)
  • 10:00 - 10:30 VERDE -- Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on the Earth (Arjun Shankar, ORNL)
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
  • 11:00 - 11:35 National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program (Bo Hadjerioua, ORNL)
  • 11:35 - 12:15 Wind Energy resources and outreach (Dale Kaiser, ORNL)
  • 12:30 - 1:30 lunch

July 22, 2010 Thursday Afternoon

Data Providers and Decision Support Solutions

  • 1:30 - 2:00 Downscaling models for regional and local Applications (Glenn Higgins, NGC)
  • 2:00 - 2:30 IEEE SCC40 activities for Electric Sourced Transportation Infrastructure Standards (Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, NSIDC, via WebEx)
  • 2:30 - 3:00 (tentative) Remote presentation on Energy metadata standards (energetics.org) and geothermal information management
  • 3:00 - 3:30 break
  • 3:30 - 5:00 Open discussion of Energy cluster future and plans