BOSTON AREA SOLAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION
Promoting Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future
Forum: 7:30 pm, Thursday, September 8th (Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m)
Professor Mara Prentiss: Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University
Author, Energy
Revolution: The Physics and
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How do we convert our entire energy supply to renewables? Mara
Prentiss, author of Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient
Technology, tells us about the opportunities and choices that must be made.
"Most people aren't aware of the enormous positive opportunities for change. I
wrote this book to encourage people to embrace some of those changes...In this
book, I have shown that it is quite technically and economically feasible to for
the United States to generate 100 percent of its average total energy
consumption by using only either wind or solar power. Allowing for a mix of
wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower makes the transition even easier." |
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Time: Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m.
How do we convert our entire energy supply to renewables? Mara Prentiss, author of Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology, tells us about the opportunities and choices that must be made. "Most people aren't aware of the enormous positive opportunities for change. I wrote this book to encourage people to embrace some of those changes...In this book, I have shown that it is quite technically and economically feasible to for the United States to generate 100 percent of its average total energy consumption by using only either wind or solar power. Allowing for a mix of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower makes the transition even easier." |
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
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7:00 PM - Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Karl Rábago on Value of Solar/Distributed Energy Resources
The Boston Area Solar Energy Association is proud to welcome Karl Rábago, known as the foremost national authority on Value of Solar calculation methodology. Our Net Metering Solar Task Force's first recommendation called for a Value of Solar study to inform fair compensation for solar energy production by tying it to the real "value and impact of solar in Massachusetts". This is where solar policy is going, graduating from arbitrary one-for-one kilowatt-hour compensation - as if a clean energy kilowatt-hour has no more value than one generated burning polluting fossil fuels.
A weak solar bill just passed (April 11th), granting an anemic raise in net metering caps, which unfortunately lasted only 2 weeks and 3 days until the cap was hit once again (April 28th), while also slashing compensation for low income and community shared solar projects. Next, the legislature plans to craft an "omnibus energy bill", figuring it had got solar out of the way. Can we move to inject the sanity of Value of Solar (Distributed Generation) into this omnibus bill?
Karl Rábago has a knack for cutting through complexity to clearly and concisely present the broad view of how distributed energy resources are integrated from an economic and ratepaying perspective, honed through deep career experience in utility systems and policy work. (View Mr. Rábago's recent address to the Rhode Island state legislature for a primer, here.) Proper valuation of distributed energy resources is essential to the health of the new energy economy, as we transition from fossil fuel based centralized generation to add more and more local, clean energy.
Karl Rábago is the Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center, at the Pace Law School in White Plains, New York. The PECC mission is to protect the earth's environment through solutions that transform the ways that society supplies and consumes energy. Karl has some 25 years experience in energy and climate policy markets. Karl serves as Chair of the Board of the Center for Resource Solutions, a San Francisco-based non-governmental organization that works to advance voluntary clean energy markets. He also sits on the Board of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). Karl also is co-director and principal investigator for the Northeast Solar Energy Market Coalition, a US DOE SunShot Initiative Solar Market Pathways project.
His past positions include Commissioner, Texas Public Utility Commission; Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy; Vice President of Distributed Energy Services at Austin Energy; Director of Regulatory Affairs for the AES Corporation and AES Wind; and Managing Director & Principal of the Rocky Mountain Institute. A graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Business Management, Karl is an attorney (University of Texas Law School, J.D. with Honors) with post-doctorate degrees in environmental (LL.M., Pace University School of Law) and military law (LL.M., US Army Judge Advocate General's School). A veteran of more than 12 years in the US Army, he served as an Armored Cavalry officer and member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and is Airborne and Ranger qualified.
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Time: Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m.
Climate Ride - NYC-DC 2014
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The BASEA Forum Series is held September through May, on the second Thursday of each month, at the 1st Parish Unitarian Church, #3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. Reception begins at 7:00 pm, with the program beginning at 7:30. The forums are free and open to the public.
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- BASEA Forum - Renewable Energy Lecture Series
- Junior Solar Sprint - Model solar car competition for middle school science students, organized and sponsored by BASEA in Eastern Massachusetts.
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- BASEA is no longer a chapter of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) but supports it's mission. Links to NESEA and other regional, national and international solar organizations can be found on the BASEA Links page.
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The Boston Area Solar Energy Association is convinced that New England's primary dependence on non-renewable energy sources is costly to our environmental, social, economic and political systems.
Therefore, we foster the design and use of solar and sustainable energy technologies through education, advocacy and the demonstration of practical, cost effective techniques.
It is our goal to promote Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future.
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