Farmingdale State Hosts Energy Conference

is hosting the 2012 International Energy and Sustainability Conference this week titled “Shaping the Future through Smart Grid Technologies.”

The conference is taking place in Roosevelt Hall from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on Thursday and Friday and homeowners, students/researchers, international individuals or corporations, interested academics and business representatives are all invited.

Participants will learn about energy-related topics like how to save money on energy bills and the panels and keynote presentations will include information about the state of the Smart Grid, emerging technologies and how they will affect the industry, policy developments, programs and incentives as well as the effects upgrades to the grid will have on energy efficiency, distributed generation of alternative energy sources, sustainability, green building practices, and green data centers.

Those presenting include: 

• Bob Catell, who has served on the board of the National Grid since September 2007 as executive director and deputy chairman.
• Yakov Shamash, vice president for economic development and dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University.
• Gordian Raacke, founder and executive director of Renewable Energy Long Island (RELI).
• James Misewich, associate laboratory director for Basic Energy Sciences at Brookhaven National Lab.

Other presenters will include New York State legislators, representatives from federal energy-related agencies, power authorities, energy and green building-related firms and academia on the topics of renewable energy, alternative energy, smart grid, sustainability vehicles and energy storage.

For the full conference program, click here. The conference comes as Farmingdale State College is