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Agenda/Presentations

2015 UC Solar Research Symposium

Friday, October 16th, 2015, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
California Public Utilities Commission Auditorium
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102

8:00 – 8:45 Attendee Check In/Poster Session
   
8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks
Liane M. Randolph , Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
   
9:00 – 9:30 “An Overview of UC President Napolitano's Innovation and Carbon Neutrality Initiatives”
William Tucker , Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, UC Office of the President
   
9:30 – 10:00 “High-Temperature Coating for Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion”
Renkun Chen , UC Solar Co-Director and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
   
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Break and Poster Session
   
10:30 – 11:00 “Sustainability at E. & J. Gallo Winery” - Proprietary
Kim D. MacFarlane , P.E., Civil and Environmental Engineer, E. & J. Gallo Winery
   
11:00 – 11:30 “An Efficient Solar Thermal-Powered Evaporation System for Salt Harvesting and Wastewater Treatment”
Roland Winston , UC Solar Director and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Natural Sciences, UC Merced

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Peggy O’Day , Professor and Chair of the Environmental Systems Graduate Program, UC Merced

   
11:30 – 12:00 “UCR's Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative as a Testbed System for Demonstrating Real-Time Control and Effective Peak Demand Reduction”
Alfredo Martinez-Morales , UC Solar Co-Director and Managing Director, Southern California-Research Initiative for Solar Energy (SC-RISE), UC Riverside
   
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch and Poster Session
   
1:00 – 1:20 “Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy”
John Perlin , Author, Research Scholar, UC Santa Barbara
   
1:20 – 2:00 “Climate, Energy, Innovation and the Future of California”
Emilio Camacho , Esq., Chief of Staff to Commissioner David Hochschild, California Energy Commission

“Advancing California's Energy Innovation Ecosystem”
Erik Stokes , Manager of Energy Deployment and Market Facilitation, California Energy Commission

2:00 – 2:30 “High Performance Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells”
Gang Li , Associate Research Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
   
2:30 – 3:00 Afternoon Break and Poster Session
   
3:00 – 3:30 “Economic Restraints on Evolving Grid Architecture”
Brad Heavner , Policy Director, California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA)
   
3:30 – 4:00 “The Woodall Group Solar Conversion and Energy Storage Projects and Status”
Jerry M. Woodall , Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis