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Vehicle to Grid Symposium 2005

From Sustainable Ballard

Seattle City Hall: Powerpoint presentations of key national experts on Electric Vehicle to Grid Applications, presented in Seattle June 6 and 7, 2005. (You can download each presentation in PDF format.)

Day One: "Technical Symposium on Vehicle To Grid Power"

A panel of experts thoroughly covered vehicle-to-grid power at a technical level.

Day One


Opening Remarks (organizers of forum): Vic Opperman (President Sustainable Ballard (SB)) and Mark Wilson

Dean Taylor, Senior Technical Specialist, Electric Transportation Division, Southern California Edison

Patrick Mazza, Climate Solutions Research Director

Roel Hammerschlag, Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment

Amardeep Dhanju, University of Delaware, "Wind power and V2G"

Ahmad Pesaran, Energy Storage Project Leader, National Renewable Energy Lab note: speaker unable to appear at the symposium, his presentation was given by Dr. Mark Duvall

Dr. Mark Duvall, Electric Transportation Technology Development Manager at EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)

Tom Gage, President, and Alan Cocconi, Chairman, AC Propulsion

Frank Lambert, Chair of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Working Group of the Infrastructure Working Council

Dr. Willett Kempton, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Scientist, University of Delaware

Roger Duncan, Deputy General Manager, Austin Energy

Jasna Tomic, consultant, WestStart-Calstart, and Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Delaware

note: speaker was unable to appear at the symposium, but following is her presentation

Steve Letendre, Chair, Dept. Business & Economics, Green Mountain College

Tony Maine, Director, Future Enterprises Pty Ltd

Day Two: "The Seattle Electric Vehicle to Grid Enterprise (V2G)"

This panel brought together experts who presented exciting scenarios in which we engage and deploy the manufacturing resources and highly-trained workforces already in place here in the Pacific Northwest. This panel advocates "connecting utility infrastructure with automobiles" for the eventual creation, marketing and manufacturing of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) in Seattle.

Day Two


Opening Remarks: Vic Opperman (President (SB)), David Wright (Vice President (SB)) and Mark WIlson

Steve Nicholas, Director, City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment.

Jorge Carrasco, Seattle City Light, Superintendent

Patrick Mazza (Panel Moderator), Climate Solutions Research Director

Dr. Willett Kempton, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware

Tom Gage, President, AC Propulsion Inc.

Dr. Mark Duvall, Electric Transportation Technology Development Manager at EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)

Click here to download the complete schedule for the Forum in Rich Text format (RTF).

This forum sponsored by Climate Solutions, Seattle City Light and Sustainable Ballard.