Colorado's New Energy Economy Conference Audio Recordings

Miss out on the conference?
Want to revisit a session?
Here you will find audio recordings of all of the speaker presentations from the Colorado's New Energy Economy: The Path Forward conference held on October 30th, 2007.

Listen to a recording by selecting one of the track titles in the playlist and clicking on the play button. To find out who you're hearing, and what they are speaking about, find the track number in the list below.

1 - Welcome (MP3 35MB)

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• Opening: D. Rico Munn, Executive Director, Department of Regulatory Agencies  
• Colorado’s New Energy Economy: Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. 
• Colorado’s Energy Profile:  Where Are We Now?
  • Ron Binz, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
  • Tom Plant, Director, Governor’s Energy Office
  • Jim Greenwood, Director, Office of Consumer Counsel

2 - Coal & Gas: What are the Challenges to Utility Fuel Supplies (MP3 27.MB)

• Moderator:  Vincent Matthews, State Geologist & Director of Colorado Geological Survey
• John A. Harpole, President, Mercator Energy
• Rick Smead, Director of Regulatory and Fuels Resources, Navigant Consulting
• Stuart A. Sanderson, President, Colorado Mining Association
• Bruce Driver, Consultant, Western Resource Advocates

3 - Consumer Demand: What Do Consumers Want and at What Price? (MP3 27MB)

• Moderator:Patricia Limerick, Faculty Director & Chair of the Board, Center of the American West at the University of Colorado
• Floyd Ciruli, President, Ciruli Associates
• Jeff Lyng, Commercial Sector Program Manager, Governor’s Energy Office
• Eric Wittenberg, President & CEO, McStain Neighborhoods

• Moderator: Craig Cox, Director, Interwest Energy Alliance
• Douglas J. Arent,  Director of Strategic Energy Analysis & Applications Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Steve Jenkins, Vice President of Gasification Services, CH2M Hill

5 - Colorado’s Energy Resources:  What are the Opportunities for the State? (MP3 29MB)

• Moderator: Representative Bernie Buescher, Vice-Chairman, Joint Budget Committee, Colorado Legislature
• Don Elliman, Director, Colorado Economic Development & International Trade
• Paul Jerde, Executive Director of the Robert H. & Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, CU Leeds Business School
• Tucker Hart Adams, Regional Economist of Energy Industries Division, U S Bank

6 - Keynote Speaker (MP3 15MB)

• Chuck Kutscher, Principal Engineer & Manager of the Thermal Systems Group, National Renewal Energy Laboratory

7 - Electric Transmission: How Do We Get Power to the People (MP3 26MB)

• Moderator: Doug Larson, Executive Director, Western Interstate Energy Board
• Joel Bladow, Senior Vice President for Transmission, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association
• Ron Lehr, Attorney, American Wind Energy Association
• Jim Tarpey, of Counsel, Holland & Hart
  

8 - Going Green:  Will the Benefits Exceed the Costs to Consumers (MP3 25MB)

• Moderator: Robert Hix, Former Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
• Thor Nelson, Partner, Holland & Hart
• Howard Geller, Executive Director, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project

• Moderator: Mark Ruzzin, Mayor, City of Boulder
• Heidi VanGenderen, Climate Change & Energy Advisor for Governor Ritter
• Michele Weingarden, Director, Greenprint Denver
• Judy Dorsey, Executive Director, Northern Colorado Clean Energy Cluster
• Dan McClendon, General Manager, Delta-Montrose Electric Association

10 - Land Use Issues: Not in My Backyard (MP3 26MB)

• Moderator: James van Hemert, President Elect, Colorado American Planning Association
• Marc Smith, Executive Director, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States
• Tresi Houpt, Commissioner, Garfield County
• Ken Reif, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association
• Mary Ellen Denomy, Representative, Western Colorado Congress

11 - Meeting Future Demand: What Strategies Will Work (MP3 25MB)

• Moderator: Harris Sherman, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources
• Jim Sims, Executive Director, Western Business Roundtable
• Matt Baker, Executive Director, Environment Colorado

12 - Changing Consumer Behavior: Do Incentives & Price Signals Work? (MP3 22.MB)

• Moderator: Skip Arnold, Director, Energy Outreach Colorado
• Janee Briesemeister, Senior Legislative Representative, State Consumer Issues Team, AARP
• Bernie Neenan, Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute

13 - Financial Markets: What is the Reaction to a Carbon-Constrained World? (MP3 15MB)

• Moderator:  Doug Dean, Director, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
• Richard Kelly, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO, Xcel Energy