Keynote Announced: Paul Gipe

Renewable Energy Analyst, Paul Gipe will address the 2010 Conference with a talk titled "Moving Vermont to the Top of the Class: How to Improve Vermont's Feed-in Tariff Program." It was Paul's ongoing work on FIT adoption in North America that supported Vermont as the state implemented the nation's first cost-based feed-in tariff.

Paul Gipe has written extensively about renewable energy for both the popular and trade press. His most recent book, Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale Wind Energy Systems. In 2004, Gipe launched a campaign to bring electricity feed laws back to North America. The campaign has grown into a continent-wide grassroots movement that has put renewable energy feed-in tariffs on the political agenda in Canada and the US.

Is the Feed-in Tariff an effective policy tool for implementing distributed energy projects? Experts from throughout the region will discuss the pros and cons of the policy as it has hit the ground in Vermont. Join the discussion, register today.