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05.08

Plug-In-Hybrid Accelerating Progress Symposium E-Book

By Sharon C. Richardson

Plug-in-Hybrids: Accelerating Progress Symposium — Part 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 chairand 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 Plug-in-Hybrids: Accelerating Progress Symposium — Part 1, Electrification, Fuel Economy and the Environment for the member price of $9.95, $19.95 for non-members.

Ideas for new e-Books

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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.