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Meeting Location and Fees:

Carnelian By The Bay
One Ferry Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94111
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DETAILS:
11:30am     Check-In / Networking
12:00pm     Luncheon
12:30pm     Presentation / Q&A
       
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PANC Members:       $45
Non-Members:          $55

Cancellation Policy:
Cancellation without charge is accepted up to 24 hours prior to the event. No-shows or cancellations less than 24 hours before the event are non-refundable.


Past Event Speakers



Photo Highlights:
December 2011 Luncheon
with CPUC President, MICHAEL PEEVEY
CPUC President Michael Peevey speaks to a sell-out crowd at our year-end Luncheon. The highest attended event in PANC history!


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Monthly Luncheon - February 14, 2012

California Renewable Energy Status Update


Guest Speaker:
ROBERT B. WEISENMILLER, Ph.D
Chair
California Energy Commission
   

Through guidance from the legislature (AB 32 and SB 1X 2) and the Governor’s Clean Energy Jobs plan, California has goals of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels, procure 33 percent of our retail sales from renewable resources, and install 20,000 MW of renewable capacity in California all by 2020. We have already made strides by permitting 16,000 MW of new renewable capacity in California in 2010 and 2011. Within the 20,000 MW target, the Governor has specified that 12,000 MW are distributed close to load. This is important to help stimulate local economies and get California citizens back to work in their own communities. Chair Weisenmiller will touch on these issues as well as briefly discuss next steps for implementation of the RPS and past POU form streamlining efforts.

About Our Speaker:
Commissioner Michael Peevey Dr. ROBERT WEISENMILLER was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in January 2011 and appointed Chair in February. He fills the Engineer/Scientist position on the five-member Commission where four of the five members by law are required to have professional training in specific areas - engineering or physical science, environmental protection, economics, and law. Commissioner Weisenmiller brings more than 30 years energy experience to the CEC including expertise in electricity and gas markets and California regulatory policies. Dr. Weisenmiller has served as an expert witness in more than 100 state and federal regulatory commission proceedings and has authored numerous publications on electricity and natural gas markets.
Before his appointment, Dr. Weisenmiller, a co-founder of MRW & Associates, used his expertise to assist businesses, financial institution, regulatory commissions, and public agencies in strategic planning, policy development, analyzing energy markets and regulations, power pricing for qualifying facility projects, marginal cost analysis, rate design and implications of utility mergers. Commissioner Weisenmiller was also the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Independent Power Corporation.

Commissioner Weisenmiller focuses on issues including the Energy Commission's budget and management; legislative and intergovernmental matters; research, development and demonstration; the Integrated and the Energy Policy Report; and electricity and natural gas. Dr. Weisenmiller's career also included previous period of public service with the Energy Commission as Advisor to Commissioner, Manager of the Special Projects Office, and Director of the Office of Policy and Program Evaluation in the period between 1977 and 1982.

Commissioner Weisenmiller holds a Doctorate in Chemistry and a Masters in Energy and Resources from University of California Berkeley and received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Providence College .