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Synopsis: Increasing renewable portfolio standards and exploring new opportunities for use of renewable energy is putting the electrical industry on a path toward advancement of renewable generation sources. Wind, water, renewable solid fuels and solar sources have a long history as power generators, but finding ways to deliver mass quantities of energy from these renewable sources is being driven by the desire to offset greenhouse gases and other pollutants from fossil fuel combustion.
The presentation will focus on commercially viable utility grade types of renewable energy. Background information on the types, historical growth, drivers for growth, forecasted growth, relative cost, regional impacts and the shift in development.
Speaker Bio:
John Larson is the Renewable Power Program Manager and the Power and Energy Group Section Manager at HDR. He began his career in 1975, as a Civil/Structural Engineer for Barr Engineering Company, progressing from Engineer to Project Manager, to Principal working on power and other projects. In 2001, John accepted a Project Manager position at Utility Engineering with Xcel Energy and later became the General Manager. He worked exclusively on power generation projects, managing the design of both simple and combined cycle power plants; hydropower projects; coal plant retrofits; biomass plants, emission upgrades and numerous other power projects.
Mr. Larson joined HDR Engineering in 2005, where he has continued his involvement on power generation projects, including hydropower, wind power, combustion turbines, solar, waste-to-energy, biomass, ethanol, landfill gas generation and other power projects.
He is registered as both a Civil and Mechanical Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering degree from the University of WI Platteville, and a Master of Science, Civil Engineering, from the University of Minnesota. He was the St. Paul Post’s Young Engineer of the Year in 1988, (which makes him pretty old), and has previously held the office of SAME
M-SP Post President.
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Meeting Schedule and Logistics:
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Social time and lunch
(if you so desire) will be from 11:30
AM to 12:30 PM in the dining
room of the Officers Club. The
Club has a daily buffet lunch and a
grill in which items can be ordered.
Lunch costs are typically less than $10.
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Post Meeting and
Presentation will be from
12:30 PM to about 1:00 PM in
the ballroom of the Officers Club.
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No PDHs
for this Presentation
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