Alternative Fuel Vehicles – Driving the Future
Tuesday, 9 April
Host: Steven P. LeBlanc, Chief of Customer Service and Logistics, Physical Plant, Virginia Military Institute
| 9:00 a.m. |
Registration & Coffee |
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Session A (9:30 am – 11:30 am)
- Introduction to Alternative Fuel Vehicles - Cathie France, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
- SNAPSHOTS: Who’s doing what in VA?
- Natural Gas
- The Honorable George Hrichak, Fleet Manager, City of Chesapeake and Board of Supervisors, York County.
- Hank Brown, Director of Fleet Maintenance, TFC Recycling;
- Mike Kearns, Energy Services Manager, City of Richmond
- Biodiesel
- Allen Mitchell, Chief, Equipment, Arlington County
- Propane
- Jerry Farmer, Operations Superintendent, City of Newport News
- Tripp Greene, Virginia Autogas
- Electric
- Andrew Flavin, Alternative Energy Research Analyst, Dominion Resources
- Public-Private Sector Leadership to Reduce Fuel Costs - Michael L. Bisogno, Director, Office of Fleet Management Services, VDGS
- Alternative Fuels - Paper Session
Moderator: MAJ Tim Moore, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, VMI
- (S)A Novel Harvesting Strategy for Algae-based fuels—Caleb Talbott, Student, and Premal Patel, Student, James Madison University
- (S)Reducing the cost of Biodiesel Production in Virginia—Jonathan Hawkins, Student and Jason McNamara, Student, James Madison University
- (S)Converting Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel – Parker Helble, Student, James Madison University
- (S)Novel Vehicle Exhaust Emission Reduction Technology—Joseph Crosbie, Student, James Madison University
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| 2:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Sessions B and C (2:45 pm – 5:30 pm)
Interest – Feasibility – Deployment
Moderator: John Warren, President of the Board of Directors, Virginia Clean Cities
- Review Opportunities and Information (Sabrene Bader, Director of Grants Administration, Virginia Clean Cities, and Mr. Bosogno)
- Get Buy In from All Parties (Ms. France and Mr. Hrichak)
- Run the Numbers to Build your Case (Mr. Kearns and Mr. Farmer )
- Knowing Vendors (Mr. Brown and Mr. Warren)
- Deployment and Evaluation (Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Kearns)
- Breakout groups for in-depth discussion
- Compressed Natural Gas
- Propane
- Biofuels
- Electric
- Closing Group Discussion and Readouts from Breakout Groups
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