Keynote Session

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Islander Ballroom, Mandalay Bay Convention Center
Open to ALL registered attendees

WELCOME ADDRESS
Teresa Hansen, Associate Editor, Power Engineering magazine POWER-GEN Renewable Energy & Fuels Executive Board and Conference Committee Co-Chair

Jackie Jones, Editor, Renewable Energy World magazine POWER-GEN Renewable Energy & Fuels Executive Board and Conference Committee Co-Chair

MODERATOR & OPENING COMMENTS
Michael T. Eckhart, President, American Council On Renewable Energy
POWER-GEN Renewable Energy & Fuels Executive Board and Conference Committee Co-Chair

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Mr. Alec Dreyer
CEO
Horizon Wind Energy LLC

Alec Dreyer joined Horizon in September 2005 as CEO. Alec has extensive experience in the power industry, most recently serving as president of Dynegy Generation, a division of Dynegy Inc. He was responsible for all aspects of leading and managing Dynegy's generation assets--a total of 13,000 MWs of generation and over 1,100 employees in twelve states. He brings to Horizon significant expertise in power plant development, commercial asset management, contract negotiations, and regulatory and governmental relations. Prior to the close of the 2000 Dynegy-Illinova merger, Alec was president of Illinova Generating Company, and a senior vice president of Illinois Power Company. In 1999, Alec led a team that successfully transferred all of the regulated generation assets of Illinois Power into an unregulated wholesale energy services company, now known as Dynegy Midwest Generation. In 1995, he was named president of Illinova Generating Company, the unregulated IPP affiliate of Illinova Corporation primarily focused on domestic and international power plant development and acquisition. A CPA, Alec is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, pre-law, and accounting. In 1987, he earned a Master's of Business Administration degree with distinction from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mr. Albert Edelmann
Board Member
Internationalisation and Sales Conergy AG
Albert Edelmann (born 1970) has a degree in business administration and founded AET GmbH ¿ a leading PV wholesaler - back in 1991. He has pushed the company¿s international expansion since it was acquired by Conergy in 1999 and successfully integrated leading solar wholesalers in Spain, Greece and France. In 2005, Albert Edelmann was appointed to the Management Board of the Conergy Group and is responsible for internationalisation and sale.
Dr. Dan Arvizu
Director
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dr. Dan Arvizu is Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the U.S. Department of Energy's primary laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development. Dr. Arvizu also is a Senior Vice President with Midwest Research Institute, which manages NREL on behalf of the DOE. Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Arvizu was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Federal and Industrial Client Groups with CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd. Before joining CH2M HILL, he was an executive with Sandia National Laboratories, where he directed Research Centers for Advanced Energy Technology, Material and Process Sciences, and Technology Commercialization.

In 2004, Dr. Arvizu was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Science Board, which is the governing board of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Arvizu has served on a number of boards and advisory committees, including the Secretary of Energy's National Coal Council and the Secretary of Defense's Army Science Board. He has also served on the Technical Advisory Board of the G8 International Renewable Energy Task Force.

He has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Mr. Dave Vander Griend
President and CEO
ICM, Inc.

ICM President and CEO Dave Vander Griend first experienced the impact farming has on rural communities, as well as the economy, when growing up on a farm outside Sheldon, IA. Today, Dave¿s made it his mission to help sustain agriculture by finding innovative ways to turn grain into renewable energy, such as ethanol.

With a strong design and fabrication background, he began working in the ethanol industry when it was just getting started in the early 1970s. In fact, Dave and his brother, Dennis Vander Griend, built a distillation column that was granted license #00001 by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Prior to founding ICM, Dave was Vice President of Operations for High Plains Corporation (now Abengoa Bioenergy), an ethanol production company. Dave left High Plains in early 1995 to start ICM, headquartered in Colwich, KS. As of May 2006, the company had grown from 20 employees to more than 400, offering everything from research and development to plant support.

Dave and the ICM team are driven to increase value for their customers by finding new, creative ways to make ethanol production more efficient. In recognition of his contributions, Dave received the ¿Distinguished Service Award¿ at the 2003 BBI International Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW) for helping the ethanol industry increase efficiencies and refine methods of practical applications during the past 20 years.

Dave and the people of ICM continue to make contributions to the industry ¿ improving process design, making operational and maintenance improvements, increasing energy efficiency, controlling costs at operational and construction levels, supporting everyday operations, and recognizing partnerships they believe will support and grow the industry.