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 Plug-In-Hybrid
Accelerating Progress Symposium E-Book
By Sharon C. Richardson
Transcripts from the
Plug-in-Hybrid Accelerating Progress Symposium
(Vol. 1) is now available as IEEE-USA’s
latest e-book. Bill Williams, a senior IEEE-USA
legislative representative on the IEEE-USA
Government Relations staff, compiled “Part I:
Electrification, Fuel Economy and the
Environment” from an explosive symposium
co-sponsored by the IEEE New Technology
Directions Committee, the Electric Vehicle
Association of Greater Washington D.C., the
Electric Drive Transportation Association, the
Set America Free Coalition, the IEEE Power
Electronics Society, the IEEE Society on Social
Implications of Technology, the IEEE Vehicular
Technology Society, the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society, and the IEEE Power
Engineering Society.
The Symposium featured a
preconference tutorial on the Vehicle-Grid
Concept, with Willet Kempton from the Center for
Energy and Environmental Policy, College of
Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the
University of Delaware. The tutorial also
included two powerful keynote speakers. Senator
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. Cantwell spoke about the
need to make the transition from petroleum to
biofuels and electrons and what is being done on
Capitol Hill to make that transition possible.
And John Wellinghoff, commissioner, Federal
Energy Regulator Commission (FERC), talked about
the efficiency of the “Word’s biggest machine,
the U.S. electric grid, which contains more than
900 megawatts of capacity, and over 35,000 miles
of transmission line,” and FERC’s jurisdiction
on wholesale transmission sales and the
interconnection to the interstate transmission
system.
The Symposium was broken in to
four panel sessions. John Miller, vice president
of Advanced Transportation Applications at
Maxwell Technologies, and author of
Propulsion Systems for Hybrid Vehicles (Power &
Energy) moderated Panel I: “Electrification,
Fuel Economy and the Environment.” John
McDonald, president of IEEE’s Power Engineering
Society (PES), and vice president of KEMA
Consulting moderated Panel II: Plug-In-Vehicles
and the Electric Grid; Paul Werbos, program
director, National Science Foundation, ran Panel
III: New Technology Challenges and
Opportunities. And Clint Andrews, associate
professor and program director for Urban
Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers
University moderated Panel IV: The Need for
Federal Action Now.
Tom Gentile, IEEE-USA’s Energy
Policy Committee chair and Keynote Speaker, R.
James Woolsey, former CIA director and the
founding member of the Set America Free
Coalition hosted an additional afternoon
session.
If you’d like full coverage of
all that happened in Panel I, download your copy
of Transcripts from the Plug-in Hybrid
Accelerating Progress Symposium, Part 1:
Electrification, Fuel Economy and the
Environment for the low member price of
$9.95, $19.95 for non-members.
Ideas for new e-Books
IEEE-USA E-Books invites IEEE
members and volunteers to submit queries for
e-books they may want to write. If you’ve got an
idea for an e-book that will educate other IEEE
members on a particular topic of expertise,
e-mail your e-book queries and ideas to IEEE-USA
Publishing Manager Georgia Stelluto at
g.stelluto@ieee.org.
You can purchase IEEE-USA
e-books — and download free ones —at
www.ieeeusa.org/communications/ebooks.
Sharon Richardson is
IEEE-USA’s Communications Assistant and
Editorial Assistant for IEEE-USA Today’s
Engineer Digest.
Comments may be
submitted to
todaysengineer@ieee.org.
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