Bioenergy Market Development One-Day Conference
Conference Sponsored By:
Farm Credit NE AgEnhancement Program
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, Saratoga Springs, NY
On February 17th, 2010, over 100 people attended the Adirondack Research Consortium’s Bioenergy Market Development One-Day Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. The conference was made possible in part by a grant from Farm Credit East’s Northeast AgEnhancement Program and the support of the Consortium’s Partners.
Highlighting the program was a Keynote Presentation by Peter Stein, Managing Director of The Lyme Timber Company, called “What is Needed to Create and Sustain a Vibrant Biomass Energy Markey”. Slides from Peter's presentation are attached.
Slides from other selected presentations made available by the authors follow:
Tim Volk, SUNY ESF – Preliminary Biomass Supply and Demand
John Martin, NYSERDA – Outlook for Natural Gas and Oil
Janet Joseph, NYSERDA – State Policies
Scott Collins, USDA – Federal Policies
Cathy Hill, Esq., White, Osterman, and Hanna, LLP – Equity Financing
Thomas Cosgrove, Farm Credit East - Project Finance Perspectives
Carl Vercollone, 42 North Structured Finance, Inc. – Risk Perspectives
Charles Niebling, New England Pellet – Technology and Project Development
Scott Travers, Newton Falls Fine Paper, LLC – Technology and Project Development Allison Grappone of the Northern Forest Center presented a “Mind Map” of the renewable energy environment of Northern New York. Follow this link to the map.
Take a look at the Program Overview for more information about the Conference.