Past Events

SDRES General Meetings are held on 2 nd Wednesday of the month. Go to current events

Event Date	Presenter/Author	Title
December 12, 2012	Stephen Johnston	Annual Members Meeting
November 14, 2012	Jamaal Knight	Roadside Sun Diego: Putting the Solar Revolution in the Fast Lane
August 8, 2012	Jennifer Schwab	Automated home energy efficiency audits
July 11, 2012	Bo Alley	Bringing clean energy and green jobs to the greater San Diego Community
June 13, 2012	Pekka Laine	Current State of Residential Solar - Options for Homeowners
May 9, 2012	Byron Washom	Demonstrating Quantum Innovations in Sustainable Energy on the UC San Diego Microgrid
April 11, 2012	Joseph Ocampo	A Look into the Next Generation of Leadership for Sustainability
March 14, 2012	GENI	Renewable Energy Reports
February 8, 2012	Adam Plesniak	The Promise of Concentration, an Introduction to Concentrator Photovoltaic Technology (CPV)
January 11, 2012	David Almeida	Green transportation
Dec 14, 2011	Steve Johnston	SDRES - Review of actions of the past year and plans for great activities and events in 2012
Nov 9, 2011	Carlos Juan Tenorio	Be the solution: current technologies being implemented in other regions and how we all can contribute
Oct 12, 2011	David A Bainbridge	Passive Solar Architecture
Sept 14, 2011	Matthew Porreca	Utilizing Natural Systems to achieve High Performance Buildings
August 10, 2011	Dave Weil	Sustainable Operations at UCSD
July 13, 2011	Joe Gardeski	SPG Solar Floatovoltaics - Generating Renewable Electricity while Freeing up Land and Conserving Water
June 8, 2011	Dan Gibbs	Vertical Urban Farming , Presentation slides
May 11, 2011	Bret C. Young	PV System Safety and Fire Prevention - from the view of an inverter manufacturer
March 9, 2011	Robert Noble	General Overview of the Industry with a Focus on SanDiego
February 9, 2011	David Pierce	Global Warming, Science of Climate Presentation Slides
January 12, 2011	Barry L. Butler, PhD	Solar Desalination/Purification "Energy and Water for the world"
November 10, 2010	Katy Hamilton and Jim Backman	"Net Zero Energy Housing"
October 14, 2010	Carl Zichella (Sierra Club)	"Progress, Opportunities and Obstacles to the Climate Challenge"
September 8, 2010	Jacques Chirazi	"San Diego Mayor's Clean Technology Leadership Strategy"
August 11, 2010	Al Nagy and Greg Wolfson	"Easing the Public Agency Funding Crisis, Delivering turnkey solar solutions through Public Private Partnerships to eliminate high energy costs"
July 14, 2010	Charlie Johnson	"Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) - opportunities for business and consumers"
June 9, 2010	Michael A. Everett and Harley McDonald	"Ultracapacitors: An overview and applications" and "Wind Energy: An update on the efforts in the San Diego Region"
June 5, 2010	SDRES + Sullivan Solar + Butler Sun Solutions, at San Diego Electrical Training Center	"Junior Solar Sprint Solar Car Race"
May 12, 2010	Sandra Jacobson and Brian Brokowski	"Biofuels: The Next Generation"
April 14, 2010	Dan Hendrickson	"Coolerado Indirect Evaporative Air Conditioning Powered with Solar PV Panels."
March 17th, 2010	Joe Steinberger	"How Spain Became a True Leader in Renewable Energy"
March 10th, 2010	Jeremy Hutman	"Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)"
February 10th, 2010	FRANK SHADPOUR and HARRY SIM	"Energy efficiency in commercial buildings, AB1103, and retrofit market opportunity." Presentation Slides and Frank's Presentation Slides
January 13th, 2010	Dan Perkins	"EE and RE Financing Options" Presentation Slides
December 9, 2009	Rob Anderson (SDG&E)	"How Renewables Fit into a Long Term Energy Plan for San Diego "
November 11, 2009	Stanley Keniston, AIA	"Net Zero Energy Architecture ? "
October 14, 2009	Drew L. Hubbell, Architect	"Attributes of Zero Energy Buildings"
September 8, 2009	Rebecca Tall Brown	"Cross that Chasm While there is Still Time-Avoiding the Pitfalls of Marketing New Technology (Solar and Beyond) "
August 12, 2009	Dr. Paul Lieberman	"COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE"
July 8, 2009	Tom Alspaugh	"City of San Diego Public Utilities Department in House Energy Management Program"
June 10, 2009	Rich Caputo	""Are Wires Needed to Bring Renewables to San Diego?" Presentation Slides
May 13, 2009	Barry Butler	Solar Desalinization Presentation Slides
April 25, 2009	San Diego Renewable Energy Society, in collaboration with Solar Living Institute,	Green Career Conference 2009 in San Diego, CA! This event was to assist students and professionals in career transition to better understand the expanding opportunities of the green economy. See the slide show If you were registered attendee you can see conference materials here.
April 8, 2009	Roger Davenport	Solar Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production Presentation Slides
February 11, 2009	introduced by Bruce Rogow	The Big Energy Gamble
January 14, 2009	Andrew McAllister, Guido Hamacher and Dan Perkins	Financing Energy Efficiency and Solar for homes and businesses
December, 2008	Dr.Jamie Rhodes	Biomass Energy and CO2 Capture
November, 2008	Scott Anders	San Diego County Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
October, 2008	Dr.Barry Butlerr	Current State of the Concentrating Solar Power industry
September, 2008	Skip Fralick	Energy Efficiency in San Diego
August, 2008	Kenneth Deffeyes	Global Oil Peaking
July, 2008	Scott Debenham	Wind Development in San Diego
June, 2008	Dr. Jeffrey Severinghaus	Global Warming
May, 2008	ASES	Solar 2008 Conference in San Diego
April, 2008	Joe Bessler	Hydrogen in San Diego's Future
March, 2008	Panel of Experts	Smart Energy 2020 - part 2 . See video
February, 2008	Bill Powers	Smart Energy 2020
January, 2008	Roger Davenport	Concentrating PV Systems
November, 2007	Cliff Webb	Dish-Stirling Power Plant, SES
September, 2007	Dr. B. Butler, Mr. Mark Mehos	Parabolic Trough CSP Power Plants
July, 2007	Joel Pointon	Hybrid to Plug-in Hybrid Conversion Project
May, 2007	Irene Stilling	New direction to be taken by the San Diego Regional Energy Office (new name CCSE)
March, 2007	Board of Directors	Tackling Climate Change
January, 2007	Barry Butler, Rich Caputo	Promise of Renewable Energy in the San Diego Region