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November 9 and 10, 2011
Energy Innovation, Technology, Policy and Testbeds in Holyoke
With an innovative municipally-owned utility (HG&E)
on-the-horizon; innovative clean energy technologies; a talented
workforce; a blossoming entrepreneur environment; broad academic
research and education capabilities; and an engaged public and private
sector — Holyoke and the Connecticut River Valley region are
well-poised to help create, deploy, and leverage the next generation of
clean energy system technologies.
The region has a unique opportunity to
develop and deploy these technologies in a Holyoke testbed setting.
Key to success, however, will be collaboration among engineers,
entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers and educators with the
ability to learn from, and leverage, this collective expertise.
The goal of the “Holyoke Clean Energy Innovation Workshop”
is to begin developing such collaborations by learning about each
other's expertise and identifying opportunities for collaboration in
entrepreneurial activities, federal-funding partnerships, and research
and educational activities.
WHEN: November 9 and 10, 2011
WHERE: OpenSquare (Mill #1), Holyoke, MA
ORGANIZERS: University
of Massachusetts, Holyoke Gas & Electric (HG&E),
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Massachusetts Green High
Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), ISO-New England, Executive Office
of Housing and Economic Development (EOHED), and Massachusetts
Technology Collaborative’s Innovation Institute.
PARTICIPANTS: Free Flow Power and 24M;
Invitations to additional companies, universities, policymakers pending
SCHEDULE:
- Wednesday, Nov. 9: A “pre-workshop”
afternoon of tutorial presentations and demonstrations of clean energy
technologies, and an overview and tour of the Holyoke Gas and Electric
facilities and capabilities including solar, wind, hydropower
generation, fiberoptic plant and network operations.
- Thursday, Nov. 10: Full-day workshop,
including (i) keynote talks, (ii) interactive panel sessions with
leaders in clean energy innovation and disruption, university research
and education, regulatory issues, public/private investment, and
policy/advocacy, and (iii) breakout sessions for even more interactive
discussion on generation, transmission, distribution, storage, and
control — as well as workforce challenges.
WHY HOLYOKE:
Holyoke Gas & Electric, a municipal utility, has signed partnerships
with emerging technology companies and has sites to facilitate testing
and development of several renewable technologies (hydro, wind, solar,
storage, etc). HG&E also has a robust fiber optic backbone and
continues to extend the fiber network with the goal of building a
logical network with a communications system throughout the entire
city. Holyoke’s new Innovation District is the home of the $168 million
MA Green High-Performance Computing Center, a partnership including
Harvard, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, UMass, Cisco, EMC, and
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Benjamin Brier at brier@masstech.org
To Register, go to: http://www.cs.umass.edu/energy_innovation_workshop/
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