Revers Center Energy Project Forum

The Revers Center for Energy will host its inaugural Energy Project Forum at Tuck. The aim of the forum is to give current Center fellows an opportunity to present their projects in an interactive way to the broader Dartmouth energy community. The forum will bring together faculty from Tuck and Dartmouth, current fellows and past Fellows, Tuck Alumni, and Energy Industry experts for this event, where current fellows will share insights and analysis of their projects.

Three projects have been selected from the 2018-19 academic year. Each project presentation will spend 20 minutes framing the study and the next 10 minutes for a panel discussion, followed by open Q&A.

The projects that have been selected are:

The current state of YieldCo’s
Validating Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting
Dartmouth Transport Fleet EV Transition Study

This event with precede the Center’s End of Year dinner.

For any questions regarding this year Energy Project Forum, please reach out to tuck.energy@dartmouth.edu.

Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Lunch and Learn

Over spring break, the Sustainability Office and Irving Institute for Energy and Society led an Energy Immersion trip to Appalachia. Over 10 days, our group of 10 students met with landowners, decision-makers, community organizers, watchdog groups, environmental and social justice activists, and leaders in the extraction industry. Students learned first-hand how histories, culture, law, economics, and technology influence the way our energy system operates in this region. A key question students are reflecting on now is: as the energy landscape shifts, and the demand for coal declines, what does a just energy transition look like for Appalachia? Come hear these students share their experiences, insights, and ideas to turn some of the many challenges they explored on the trip into opportunities.

For more information or to register, please sign up here.

Srini Viswanathan, CEO, Vibrant Energy Holdings

Srini Viswanathan  is leading the investment and development activities at Vibrant Energy Holdings with 52MW portfolio and 300MW under construction. Previously, he was leading SunEdison India’s C&I business where he led the growth of India’s C&I open access portfolio. Prior to that, he was the Country Head and Managing Director for Solesa Solar Engineering operating across India, Middle East and Africa . At Solesa he implemented India’s first solar diesel hybrid project and managed open access & rooftop project development . Srini started his solar finance and development career by being a founding employee for Sol Systems where he helped to build a mezzanine solar financing fund in Washington DC.

He completed his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and started his career at UBS Investment Bank for industrial and renewable energy clients. Previously, he worked for 10 years in the IT Services industry as international sales manager.

Srini will have office hours available to the Tuck community and have a public talk from 12-1 p.m.

Staff and students who are interested in attending can sign up here.

Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change: Impacts and Opportunities

The urgency to take action on climate change has become increasingly evident, but solutions are at hand that will improve public health, create economic opportunity, and strengthen our resilience as a state and a nation. This program will serve as a forum for discussion on current and future policy options on the local, state, federal and international levels to meet the global challenges of climate change.

Keynote Speaker: Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator of the EPA and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

This half-day conference will focus on public health, the business case for climate action, municipal initiatives on renewable energy, and international climate negotiations. Presenters include representatives from Clean Energy NH, CERES, NH Businesses for Social Responsibility, the City of Boston, Harvard Business School, Union of Concerned Scientists, Harvard Kennedy School, the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Sponsors: World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, Global Citizens Circle, Harvard Club of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Kennedy School Network, League of Conservation Voters

Saturday, May 4th, 8:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
Southern NH University
Frost Hall, Walker Auditorium
2500 North River Road
Manchester, NH 

Staff, students, and the greater community who are interested in attending can register here.

Renewable Energy Workshop: Wind and Solar Project Development

The Revers Center will be hosting its annual Spring workshop focused on the renewable energy industry. We are excited to welcome executives from Swift Current and Verogy to lead the one-day workshop focused primarily on wind and solar project finance and development, markets overview and the business case for each, structuring power purchase agreements, and what it means to sell electricity.
Led by: Jim Marett T'10, Senior Associate, Swift Current Energy and Alex Figueroa T'10, Co-Founder and CFO, Verogy

Topics covered will include:

• Business case for wind and solar
• Markets overview from the  practitioners point of view
• Differences between C&I and  merchant/utility scale projects
• How deals get funded and financed
• Trends in corporate procurement, impact of tariffs, and valuing DER

The workshop will use case studies to reinforce each of the topics and students will be working through models and profitability frameworks.

Staff and students who are interested in attending can sign up here.

Student Mini-Grant Applications Due

The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society is calling applications for funding to support energy-related research, projects, or conference attendance  during the summer 2019. IIES offers mini-grants up to $1,000 for enrolled undergraduate and graduate students who are advancing the Institute's mission of transforming humankind’s understanding of energy issues, and driving the creation of ideas, technologies, and policies that improve the availability and efficient use of energy for all people.  Applicants should be as specific as possible about anticipated costs. All proposed budgets are subject to review, and not all costs may be covered for awarded projects.

This opportunity is open to Dartmouth undergraduate and graduate students. Please see the IIES website for more information.

Empowering Energy Innovation in NH: Moving from Theory to Reality

Empowering Energy Innovation in New Hampshire: Moving from Theory to Reality

Join us for a solutions-focused presentation and discussion with energy experts providing federal, state, and local perspectives.

Topics addressed will include:

• State and local actions taken to lower energy costs and carbon footprints
• The growing distributed energy economy and the value of the “prosumer”
• What NH can expect in the coming decade of energy innovation.

Panelists:

Tom Burack ’82, Former Commissioner, NH Department of Environmental Services; Shareholder, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA; 2019 Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor
Henry Herndon, Director, Local Energy Solutions, Clean Energy New Hampshire
April Salas, Executive Director, Revers Center for Energy, Tuck School of Business; formerly served at the US Department of Energy

Refreshments starting at 4:30pm and panel to begin at 5:15pm.

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

More information on the IIES website.

Visiting Speaker: Paul Dabbar

Paul Dabbar will discuss the future of energy and creative solutions to energy challenges in the US with Laura Ray, Interim Dean, Thayer School of Engineering. The talk will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:15pm in Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall, Thayer School of Engineering. This event is open to the public.

The Honorable Paul M. Dabbar is the Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy. He serves as the Department’s principal advisor on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, and science, driving this mission through programs including nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy, advanced computing, fusion, and biological and environmental research, and direct management over a majority of the Department’s national labs and their world-leading user facilities. In addition, Mr. Dabbar manages the environmental and legacy management missions of the Department, addressing the U.S. legacy of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Mr. Dabbar is the lead for technology commercialization activities for the Department and its 17 national labs.

Mr. Dabbar has a background in operations, finance, and strategy in the energy sector. As Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, he led various energy business areas, had over $400 billion in investment experience across all energy sectors including solar, wind, geothermal, distributed-generation, utility, LNG, pipeline, oil & gas, trading, and energy technologies, and also led the majority of all nuclear transactions.

Staff, students, and the greater community who are interested in attending can register here.