Visit our website: www.gpaee.org Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers “Fostering action through education, innovation & networking to promote the priorities of Philadelphia-area Energy Professionals” June 2013 June 2013 GPAEE GPAEE Newsletter Newsletter Celebrate the close of another great year with the Greater Philadelphia Association of Energy Engineers! Join us on June 19th to root on the Phillies as they battle the Washington Nationals. The festivities will start off at 5:30pm at Xfinity Live in the upstairs VIP Room, across the street from the ball park. Sandwiches and snacks as well as a full open bar will be served for the hour and a half leading up to the game. Tickets will be handed out at Xfinity Live. All tickets are in the same section of the park. Game start time is 7:05. Parking is not included with your ticket purchase. About Our Meeting Sponsor The Burns Group provide professional engineering and energy consulting services, and is an organization driven to provide solutions that build our clients’ futures. Burns offers a full spectrum of services to help our clients become more efficient in their use of energy resources while also providing significant cost savings. Our award-winning designs have enabled our clients to reduce their energy consumption by 20%-30% and have resulted in millions of dollars in energy cost savings. Burns provides customized energy solutions nationwide for higher education, transporta- tion, commercial, water resources, municipal and industrial clients in the following areas: · Strategic Energy & Infrastructure Planning · Energy Efficiency · Owner’s Representative Services · Distributed Generation & On-Site Power Click Below For Additional Registration Info! Table of Contents Focus On: Season Closer with the Phillies 1 Calendar of Events 2 Next Event: June 19th: Season Closer with the Phillies 2 Photos from the May Event 4 Thank You to Our May Event Sponsors 4 Welcome New and Renewing Members 6 Thank You Corporate Members 6 Event Preview September: Annual Golf Outing 8 Hole Sponsorship 9 Board Info 9 Shale Gas Competition 10 July Planning Meeting 10 St. Elizabeth Parish Meeting 11 Upcoming Energy Events 11 Energy News 13 Job Board 14-15 Support AEE 16 AEE National 17 Newsletter Contact Info 17 Thank You to our June Meeting Sponsor! Focus On: Season Closer with the Phillies
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Visit our website: www.gpaee.org
Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers
“Fostering action through education, innovation & networking to promote
the priorities of Philadelphia-area Energy Professionals”
June 2013June 2013
GPAEE GPAEE NewsletterNewsletter
Celebrate the close of another great year with the Greater Philadelphia Association
of Energy Engineers! Join us on June 19th to root on the Phillies as they battle the
Washington Nationals.
The festivities will start off at 5:30pm at Xfinity Live in the upstairs VIP Room,
across the street from the ball park. Sandwiches and snacks as well as a full open bar
will be served for the hour and a half leading up to the game. Tickets will be handed
out at Xfinity Live. All tickets are in the same section of the park.
Game start time is 7:05. Parking is not included with your ticket purchase.
About Our Meeting Sponsor
The Burns Group provide professional engineering and energy consulting services, and is an organization driven to provide solutions that build our clients’ futures. Burns offers a full spectrum of services to help our clients become more efficient in their use of energy resources while also providing significant cost savings. Our award-winning designs have enabled our clients to reduce their energy consumption by 20%-30% and have resulted in millions of dollars in energy cost savings. Burns provides customized energy solutions nationwide for higher education, transporta-tion, commercial, water resources, municipal and industrial clients in the following areas:
· Strategic Energy & Infrastructure Planning
· Energy Efficiency
· Owner’s Representative Services
· Distributed Generation & On-Site Power
Click Below For
Additional Registration
Info!
Table of Contents
Focus On: Season Closer with the Phillies
1
Calendar of Events 2
Next Event: June 19th: Season Closer with the Phillies
5:30 PM - 7:05 PM Networking at Xfinity Live! 7:05 PM - 10:00 PM Phillies vs Nationals
Xfinity Live! 1100 Pattison Ave Philadelphia, PA 19148 Members: $75.00 Non-Members: $90.00 1) Click on the Meeting Flyer icon to the left which will bring you to the GPAEE website 2) Click on the ―Register Now box and follow the directions listed there
Dane Stokes - Exelon Corp Robert McKenzie - R M Green Environmental Services
Mario Llamas - Colorcon Jim Kelly - Colorcon
Kevin Kamzelski - Colorcon Sidney Evans - NRG Business Solutions
Brian Kick - NRG Business Solutions Cole Maccioli - NRG Business Solutions Bill Conway - NRG Business Solutions
Holt Gollatz, MBA - R World Energy Services Frank Fazio, MBA - R World Energy Services
Guru Rangaswamy, ME - R World Energy Services Michael Russo - VNG
Robert Friedman - VNG Bill Mitchell - VNG Rob Blake - VNG
THANK YOU CORPORATE MEMBERS!
Birdsall Services Group Burns Engineering Inc. Chevron Energy Solutions Company Commercial Utility Consultants Concord Engineering Group Constellation, an Exelon Company Core Power Inc. Advanced Geothermal Technology E-finity Distributed Generation Eneractive Solutions GDF Suez Energy Resources - NA Graboyes Commercial Window Co Hutchinson Mechanical Services ICF International Klenzoid Inc. Limbach Company LLC
Lutron Electronics Company Inc. Maarky Thermal Systems NRG Business Solutions PECO Peterson Service Co PGW Provident Energy Consulting, LLC PWI Engineering Inc. R World Energy Services Ransome Schneider Electric South Jersey Energy Solutions Thermax Inc. Tozour Energy Systems UGI Energy Services Veolia Energy Philadelphia VNG
Every July the GPAEE Board plans the upcoming years topics and events at our annual planning meeting. An integral part of this process is the invaluable feed-back we receive from you, our members.
If you have topic suggestions and ideas, please send them to Christine Batchelor at [email protected]
The Marcellus Shale Coalition's (MSC) Research Collaborative is sponsoring a Technology Showcase fo-rum as a pre-conference event prior to the SHALE GAS INSIGHT™ 2013 conference in Philadelphia, PA to provide suppliers of emerging technologies an opportunity to showcase their innovation to the nat-ural gas producer, midstream pipeline, and service community. The pre-conference Technology Showcase presentations will be on September 24, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
The Research Collaborative is seeking applications from technology providers who are interested in pre-senting to the natural gas community their technology that is ready for “field test”. The technology should be ready for pilot testing, slip stream or full scale at a natural gas drilling site in the Marcellus shale, Utica shale or at a coal-bed methane or coal-mine methane site. Selected suppliers will be allowed to deliver an 8-minute presentation followed by a 2-minute Q&A. Up to twelve companies will be selected to present in this forum.
To be considered for presentation, the application, available at http://shaleinsight.com/technology-showcase/, must be completed and submitted to the email address listed on the application by the dead-line of July 3, 2013. A selection committee of MSC Research Collaborative members will review the ap-plications and notify the selected presenters by August 5th. A detailed event schedule will be provided by September 11th.
Marcellus Shale Coalition / Ben Franklin Technology Partners,
Shale Gas Innovation and Commercialization Center Technology Showcase September 24, 2013 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
World Class Greater Philadel-phia Infrastructure GPS Release
June 20, 2013
Independence Visitors Center
Philadelphia, PA
http://worldclassgreaterphila.org/
infrastructuregpsevent
Learn About the Commercial Building Retrofit Marketplace
June 17 - 18, 2013
Rowan University & NJIT Newark Campus
http://www.eebhub.org/events/eeb-hub-events/
learn-about-the-commercial-building-retrofit-
marketplace/
GPAEE BOARD MEMBERS VISIT FUTURE CITY AWARD WINNER
ST. ELIZABETH PARISH
On Thursday May 23rd,GPAEE Board Members, Jim Clark & Mike Sanders ventured out to Uwchlan Township, Chester County (just north of Exton, Pa.) to host lunch with the Future City 2013 GPAEE Chapter Award winning school, St Elizabeth Parish School. St Elizabeth School is only 5 years old and has embraced many 21st Century energy-savings technologies. What a special place to earn an education. Jim & Mike hosted approximately 20 students from the 6th & 7th grade classes, as well as their teacher and 2013 Future Cities mentor, Bill Kuhn. The students challenged them with questions about many ener-gy related topics including: 1) What are the hosts opinion of "fracking" 2) What are the plans for natural gas fueled vehicles? 3) Do refineries really pollute as shown on television? 4) What jobs do the members of your chapter hold? There were many questions, some very timely and some very difficult however Jim and Mike gave knowl-edgeable and though provoking answers. We thank everyone involved in the Future City program for their participation in the day. We acknowledge the hard work, time and dedication of the teachers, men-tors, students and GPAEE board members in making the Future City program a priority in their educa-tion.
In the summer of 2008, two natural gas import terminals opened along the U.S. Gulf Coast: one in Freeport, Tex., and the other about 140 miles northeast near the mouth of the Sabine River in Louisiana. The projects signaled America’s growing dependence on foreign energy. Prices had more than doubled over the previous year: More imports from places such as Qatar and Yemen seemed like the only option. (more)
Largest U.S. power grid operator reports energy auction prices drop amid competition
PJM Interconnection LLC, which runs the largest U.S. power grid, said consumer costs to in-sure adequate generating capacity in the year starting June 2016 will drop 56 percent amid competition from new plants fueled by natural gas. Payments to power-plant owners will decline to $59.37 a megawatt per day from $136 in the previous 12-month period, based on the results of an annual PJM auction held May 13 through May 17. (more)
Power Grid Getting Smarter With Big Battery
Research conducted with a large new battery unveiled today in Oregon will help make the Northwest's and the nation's electric system smarter and more efficient, officials said at a rib-bon-cutting ceremony. Portland General Electric's 5-megawatt, lithium-ion energy storage system was shared with the public today at the utility's Salem Smart Power Center in South Salem, Ore. The energy storage facility is part of PGE's contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demon-stration Project. Half of PGE's $23-million portion of the regional project was paid for with U.S. Department of Energy funds. The regional demonstration is a five-year, $178-million pro-ject that launched in 2010. (more)
The US Shale-Gas Revolution and European Renewables: Divergence and Co-operation in Alternative Energy
That the United States and Europe have been following different energy policies over the past few decades won't come as a surprise. However, according to one researcher, their divergence -- with the US leading 'the shale gas revolution' and Europe investing heavily in modern re-newables -- is a good thing for the development of both alternative-energy sources. Writing in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Marianne Haug of the University of Hohen-heim argues that although the transatlantic energy partners continue to be committed to com-mon goals -- namely energy security, environmental sustainability and economic competitive-ness -- the relative priority given to each has changed substantially since the early 1990s. Do-mestic issues, geopolitical concerns, differing resource bases, changing energy markets, govern-ment policy, public opinion, the accession of new countries to the EU and the choices of in-vestors have all altered the landscape. To address these new challenges, both the US and Eu-rope have jointly and separately reached out to new markets, partners and collaboration ar-rangements. (more)
CPower, Inc. is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity institution and welcomes applications from diverse candidates and
candidates who support diversity.
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Energy Job Board (continued)
Sales and Marketing Associate - Philadelphia
Veolia Energy North America is a leader in sustainable energy services and facility manage-ment. Veolia Energy, (NYSE: VE), the world leader and benchmark player in environmental ser-vices, with operations on every continent and 150 years of experience. The Sales and Marketing Associate is responsible for identifying and developing long-term, inte-grated, energy services contracts and will lead the pursuit of new business opportunities by estab-lishing strong relationships with existing and potential clients in the commercial building market space. Interested candidates should apply on-line through Veolia Energy’s website: http://www.veoliaenergyna.com/careers/search-apply/ Job Number: 30071
Commodity Account Manager
PWI Engineering is leading Engineering and Energy Consulting Company in Jenkintown, PA and has an opening for an Commodity Account Manager that will concentrate on Energy Procure-ment.
Our Engineering Firm is a unique in that we provide Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Design, as well as Energy Consulting, Utility Procurement and Grant Writing Services. Our Energy Consult-ing Group works hand in hand with our MEP design team to bring viable solutions to our client. The successful candidate will support our efforts with our growing utility procurement service as well as assist with our other energy consulting offerings.
For additional information and copy of the complete job description, please contact Lori Van Der Voort or Deborah Rutledge, or call 215-241-9100.
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) is a nonprofit professional society of 16,000 members in 89 countries. The mission of AEE is “to promote the scientific and educa-tional interests of those engaged in the energy industry and to foster action for Sustainable Development.” AEE's network of 82 local chapters meet regularly to discuss regional is-sues. AEE's roster of corporate members is a veritable “who's who” from the commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental, energy services, and utility sectors. AEE offers a full array of informational outreach programs including seminars, confer-
ences, journals, books, and certification programs.
The AEE Energy, Facility, Power News is a high-quality online newsletter that focuses on the
accomplishment of the Association and its members. AEE also publishes three technical
journals: Energy Engineering, Strategic Planning for Energy & the Environment, and Cogeneration
& Distributed Generation Journal. Distributed Energy focuses on the advantages of diversifying
your energy portfolio with onsite power and distributed generation in order to efficiently
increase the security and stability of your power systems. Sustainable Facility, a new publica-
tion from the publishers of Energy & Power Management magazine replaces the former
publication to AEE members. These publications are complimentary to all AEE mem-
bers.
Additional benefits include continuing education & book discounts, invitations to industry
surveys, job referrals, and special member discounts.
50% Discount on Membership for One Year
To become an AEE National Member, please go to http://www.aeecenter.org/
membership/. Receive a 50% discount on National Membership by entering “Chapter 50”.
